Should I start CeeDee Lamb or Javonte Williams in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on CeeDee Lamb, and the board ranks him 5th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Javonte Williams, and the board ranks him 11th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

CeeDee Lamb's market-based projection is 21.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 4th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Javonte Williams is 19.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 7 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, CeeDee Lamb has been on the field for 81 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 33 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 32 of the offence's 82 third down targets, had 3 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 18 of its 55 two minute targets.

His 108 targets have averaged 10.7 air yards.

In Week 7 against PHI he caught 5 of 12 targets for 74 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against ARI he caught 7 of 11 targets for 58 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against IND he caught 10 of 16 targets for 195 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 9, Javonte Williams has been on the field for 74 percent of DAL snaps, taken 67 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 39 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 82 third down targets, had 22 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 55 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against PHI he carried 25 times for 155 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against ARI he carried 24 times for 56 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 1 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against IND he carried 20 times for 101 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 23 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 CeeDee Lamb played 14 games and scored 200.9 PPR points, 14.4 a game, finishing WR22.

He caught 75 of 117 targets for 1077 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 8.4 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 75 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Javonte Williams played 16 games and scored 242.8 PPR points, 15.2 a game, finishing RB12.

He carried 252 times for 1201 yards and 11 touchdowns, and caught 35 of 51 targets for 137 more yards.

That came to 15.8 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Javonte Williams was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Javonte Williams scored 15.2 PPR points a game and CeeDee Lamb 14.4, 0.8 a game between them.

CeeDee Lamb finished WR22 and Javonte Williams RB12, which are two different ladders.

CeeDee Lamb is a wide receiver and Javonte Williams a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 14, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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