Should I start Caleb Williams or T.J. Hockenson in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Caleb Williams's market-based projection is 18.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 11th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

T.J. Hockenson's market-based projection is 10.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 80th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Williams, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.

Live drafts hold no current pick on T.J. Hockenson, and the board ranks him 67th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

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.

Through Week 5, T.J. Hockenson has been on the field for 60 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against TB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against MIA he caught 13 of 13 targets for 119 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 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 T.J. Hockenson played 15 games and scored 112.8 PPR points, 7.5 a game, finishing TE26.

He caught 51 of 66 targets for 438 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 8.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Caleb Williams was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Caleb Williams scored 19.1 PPR points a game and T.J. Hockenson 7.5, 11.6 a game between them.

Caleb Williams finished QB5 and T.J. Hockenson TE26, which are two different ladders.

Caleb Williams is a quarterback and T.J. Hockenson a tight end, 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 and T.J. Hockenson in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

T.J. Hockenson is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

8.4 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.