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Should I start Caleb Williams or Savion Williams in Week 9?

Updated Nov 3, 1:24 PM ET.

Start Caleb Williams: 95 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Savion Williams's 56 percent of the snaps and 7 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 Savion Williams for Caleb Williams?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Caleb Williams projects 148 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 8 games), Savion Williams 51 (6.4 a game over 8 games).

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

QB3 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs pass yds line 4-1

Overall rank
33

WR15 · GB · bye unlisted

2025 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
5.9 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 Caleb Williams, and the board ranks him 33rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Savion Williams, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Caleb Williams is 18.8 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 6 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Savion Williams's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 43rd highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based projection.

Caleb Williams's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 97 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 186 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 186 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.

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.

In Week 7 against NE he completed 22 of 33 passes for 308 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 19 yards.

In Week 8 against SEA he completed 24 of 34 passes for 247 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

Through Week 8, Savion Williams has been on the field for 56 percent of GB snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 38 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 7.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CAR he carried 1 time for 18 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

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 Savion Williams played 12 games and scored 25.5 PPR points, 2.1 a game, finishing WR144.

He caught 10 of 10 targets for 78 yards and 1 touchdown, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 7.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 12 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Caleb Williams was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Caleb Williams scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Savion Williams 2.1, 17.0 a game between them.

Caleb Williams finished QB5 and Savion Williams WR144, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Caleb Williams is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Savion Williams.

What would change the answer

Caleb Williams has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Savion Williams for Caleb Williams?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Caleb Williams projects 148 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 8 games), Savion Williams 51 (6.4 a game over 8 games).

  • Should I drop Caleb Williams for Savion Williams?

    No. Keep Caleb Williams: he projects 148 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 8 games), Savion Williams 51 (6.4 a game over 8 games).

Should I drop Savion Williams?

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