Should I start Chig Okonkwo or Kyren Williams in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chig Okonkwo, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyren Williams, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Chig Okonkwo's market-based projection is 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 77th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kyren Williams is 5.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

Kyren 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, Chig Okonkwo has been on the field for 68 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 7.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 7 of 7 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he caught 2 of 4 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAR he caught 6 of 7 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Kyren Williams has been on the field for 68 percent of LAR snaps, taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 76 third down targets, had 9 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 46 targets have averaged 2.4 air yards.

In Week 7 against LV he carried 16 times for 99 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against LAC he carried 16 times for 56 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against WAS he carried 15 times for 45 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chig Okonkwo played 17 games and scored 124.0 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing TE21.

He caught 56 of 79 targets for 560 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Kyren Williams played 17 games and scored 263.3 PPR points, 15.5 a game, finishing RB9.

He carried 259 times for 1252 yards and 10 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 50 targets for 281 more yards.

That came to 15.2 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

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

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyren Williams scored 15.5 PPR points a game and Chig Okonkwo 7.3, 8.2 a game between them.

Chig Okonkwo finished TE21 and Kyren Williams RB9, which are two different ladders.

Chig Okonkwo is a tight end and Kyren Williams a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Chig Okonkwo is off in Week 7 and Kyren Williams in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Chig Okonkwo is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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