Should I start Chase Brown or Javonte Williams in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chase Brown, and the board ranks him 13th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 5; 2QB: ADP 19.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Javonte Williams, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Chase Brown's market-based projection is 15.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 29th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Javonte Williams is 6.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

Javonte 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, Chase Brown has been on the field for 71 percent of CIN snaps, taken 63 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 4 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against MIA he carried 13 times for 39 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against BAL he carried 11 times for 39 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against TEN he carried 12 times for 55 yards, caught 8 of 9 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Javonte Williams has been on the field for 74 percent of DAL snaps, taken 68 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 40 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 69 third down targets, had 21 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 50 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have come 1.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against GB he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chase Brown played 17 games and scored 282.6 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing RB7.

He carried 232 times for 1019 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 69 of 88 targets for 437 more yards.

That came to 13.6 carries a game at 4.4 yards a carry and 4.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 67 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.

Chase Brown was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Chase Brown scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Javonte Williams 15.2, 1.4 a game between them.

Chase Brown finished RB7 that year and Javonte Williams RB12.

Javonte Williams had 20 more carries than Chase Brown, 252 to 232.

Chase Brown had 34 more catches than Javonte Williams, 69 to 35.

This season Javonte Williams holds the bigger snap share, 74 percent against 71 percent.

This season Javonte Williams holds the bigger share of the carries, 68 percent against 63 percent.

Byes and availability

Chase Brown is off in Week 6 and Javonte Williams in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.