Should I start Caleb Williams or Xavier Worthy in Week 7?

Updated Oct 23, 11:41 AM 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 Xavier Worthy's 80 percent of the snaps and 20 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 Xavier Worthy 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), Xavier Worthy 92 (9.2 a game over 10 games).

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

Caleb Williams

QB2 · CHI · bye 10

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

Xavier Worthy

WR25 · KC · bye 5

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Market-based projection: 11.4 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 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Xavier Worthy, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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

Xavier Worthy's market-based projection is 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 66th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 6

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 6, Xavier Worthy has been on the field for 81 percent of KC snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 8.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LV he caught 4 of 7 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 7 of 7 targets for 73 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 Xavier Worthy played 14 games and scored 109.9 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR59.

He caught 42 of 73 targets for 532 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5.2 targets a game, a 58 percent catch rate and 12.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Caleb Williams was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Caleb Williams scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Xavier Worthy 7.9, 11.3 a game between them.

Caleb Williams finished QB5 and Xavier Worthy WR59, which are two different ladders.

Caleb Williams is a quarterback and Xavier Worthy 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 and Xavier Worthy in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

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 Xavier Worthy 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), Xavier Worthy 92 (9.2 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Caleb Williams for Xavier Worthy?
No. Keep Caleb Williams: he projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 9 games), Xavier Worthy 92 (9.2 a game over 10 games).

Should I drop Xavier Worthy?