Should I start Kyle Pitts Sr. or Caleb Williams in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 1:26 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Caleb Williams: 96 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kyle Pitts Sr.'s 65 percent of the snaps and 18 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.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
TE8 · ATL · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-4
- Market-based projection
- 7.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 46
QB5 · CHI · bye 10
2025 vs pass yds line 10-7
- Market-based projection
- 18.8 pts a game
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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 Kyle Pitts Sr., and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Williams, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Kyle Pitts Sr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Caleb Williams's market-based projection is 18.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 6th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Kyle Pitts Sr. has been on the field for 59 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 22 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.
In Week 4 against NO he caught 3 of 3 targets for 47 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against BAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against CHI he caught 5 of 7 targets for 60 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
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 Kyle Pitts Sr. played 17 games and scored 210.8 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing TE2.
He caught 88 of 118 targets for 928 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 87 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.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Side by side
In 2025 Caleb Williams scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Kyle Pitts Sr. 12.4, 6.7 a game between them.
Kyle Pitts Sr. finished TE2 and Caleb Williams QB5, which are two different ladders.
Kyle Pitts Sr. is a tight end and Caleb Williams a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Kyle Pitts Sr. is off in Week 11 and Caleb Williams in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Kyle Pitts Sr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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