Caleb Williams or Joe Burrow: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 12:46 AM ET
Caleb Williams is the start on the books' latest price, 16.6 points to Joe Burrow's 16.5, with Caleb Williams on the price the books posted for his Week 2 game because his next market is not posted yet. This answer reorders when it is. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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QB12 · CHI · bye 10
2025 vs pass yds line 10-7
- Books price
- 16.6 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 87
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
QB16 · CIN · bye 6
2025 vs pass yds line 2-6
- Books price
- 16.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Caleb Williams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Joe Burrow: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 11.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Caleb Williams, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Joe Burrow at 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 27th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 93 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 70 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 11 of 70 dropbacks and scrambled 10 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.
Through Week 2, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 100 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 73 times and thrown 6.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 73 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 1 against TB he completed 25 of 35 passes for 254 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 21 yards.
In Week 2 against HOU he completed 20 of 31 passes for 207 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.
He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Caleb Williams was available for 9 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Caleb Williams scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Joe Burrow 17.4, 1.7 a game between them.
Caleb Williams finished QB5 that year and Joe Burrow QB29.
Caleb Williams had 309 more pass attempts than Joe Burrow, 568 to 259.
Caleb Williams had 2133 more passing yards than Joe Burrow, 3942 to 1809.
This season Joe Burrow holds the bigger snap share, 100 percent against 93 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 0 percent each.
Byes and availability
Caleb Williams is off in Week 10 and Joe Burrow in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Caleb Williams is listed as doubtful 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.
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