Should I start Zach Charbonnet or Caleb Williams in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 4:27 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 23, 5:13 PM ET: Zach Charbonnet: Questionable to Out (Knee - ACL, Surgery) (Sleeper injury feed)
Oct 22, 2:43 PM ET: Zach Charbonnet: PUP to Questionable (Knee - ACL, Surgery) (Sleeper injury feed)
Oct 22, 2:26 PM ET: Seahawks RB Zach Charbonnet activated off PUP list (ESPN)

Start Caleb Williams: he has been on the field this season, 95 percent of the snaps, and Zach Charbonnet has no snap on record yet. 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 Zach Charbonnet 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), Zach Charbonnet 37 (4.1 a game over 9 games). Zach Charbonnet is listed out.

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

Zach Charbonnet

RB22 · SEA · bye 11

2025 vs carries line 10-6

Market-based projection: 10.1 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 71

Caleb Williams

QB7 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs pass yds line 3-1

Market-based projection: 17.5 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 Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Williams, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 4.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Caleb Williams's market-based projection is 17.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Through Week 7, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 97 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 150 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 150 dropbacks and scrambled 14 times.

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.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 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.

Caleb Williams was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Caleb Williams scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Zach Charbonnet 11.3, 7.8 a game between them.

Zach Charbonnet finished RB24 and Caleb Williams QB5, which are two different ladders.

Zach Charbonnet is a running back and Caleb Williams a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Zach Charbonnet is off in Week 11 and Caleb Williams in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Zach Charbonnet 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 Zach Charbonnet 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), Zach Charbonnet 37 (4.1 a game over 9 games). Zach Charbonnet is listed out.
Should I drop Caleb Williams for Zach Charbonnet?
No. Keep Caleb Williams: he projects 167 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (18.5 a game over 9 games), Zach Charbonnet 37 (4.1 a game over 9 games). Zach Charbonnet is listed out.