Should I start Jaylen Waddle or Caleb Williams in Week 7?

Updated Oct 23, 7:36 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 21, 7:43 PM ET: Jaylen Waddle: Listed Questionable (Chest) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Caleb Williams: 96 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jaylen Waddle's 66 percent of the snaps and 21 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Jaylen Waddle for Caleb Williams?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Caleb Williams projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 9 games), Jaylen Waddle 110 (12.2 a game over 9 games). Jaylen Waddle is listed questionable.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Jaylen Waddle

WR24 · DEN · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection: 11.8 pts a game

Caleb Williams

QB2 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs pass yds line 3-1

Market-based projection: 18.5 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 59

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Waddle, and the board ranks him 57th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Williams, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.

The market-based projections

Jaylen Waddle's market-based projection is 11.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 65th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Caleb Williams, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 68 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 38 targets have averaged 9.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 9 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 4 of 7 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 96 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 111 times and thrown 6.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 18 of 111 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.

In Week 1 against CAR he completed 21 of 29 passes for 269 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 10 times for 65 yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 138 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 42 yards.

In Week 6 against ATL he completed 30 of 36 passes for 305 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 4 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.

He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Caleb Williams played 17 games and scored 325.2 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB5.

He threw for 3942 yards on 568 attempts with 27 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 383 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 33.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Caleb Williams was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Caleb Williams scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Jaylen Waddle 12.1, 7.0 a game between them.

Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 and Caleb Williams QB5, which are two different ladders.

Jaylen Waddle is a wide receiver and Caleb Williams a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Jaylen Waddle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Caleb Williams has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jaylen Waddle for Caleb Williams?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Caleb Williams projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 9 games), Jaylen Waddle 110 (12.2 a game over 9 games). Jaylen Waddle is listed questionable.
Should I drop Caleb Williams for Jaylen Waddle?
No. Keep Caleb Williams: he projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 9 games), Jaylen Waddle 110 (12.2 a game over 9 games). Jaylen Waddle is listed questionable.