Should I start Emanuel Wilson or Chris Godwin Jr. in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Emanuel Wilson, and the board ranks him 102nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Godwin Jr., and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 21; 2QB: ADP 45.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Emanuel Wilson is 4.9 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.

Chris Godwin Jr.'s market-based projection is 8.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 101st highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Emanuel Wilson has been on the field for 41 percent of SEA snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 7 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have come 1.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against SF he carried 20 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against DEN he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against KC he carried 24 times for 100 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, Chris Godwin Jr. has been on the field for 73 percent of TB snaps, drawn 45 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 4 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against CAR he caught 4 of 5 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Emanuel Wilson played 17 games and scored 94.5 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing RB49.

He carried 125 times for 496 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 15 of 17 targets for 99 more yards.

That came to 7.4 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Chris Godwin Jr. played 9 games and scored 83.0 PPR points, 9.2 a game, finishing WR78.

He caught 33 of 51 targets for 360 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 5.7 targets a game, a 65 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 71 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Emanuel Wilson was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Chris Godwin Jr. scored 9.2 PPR points a game and Emanuel Wilson 5.6, 3.7 a game between them.

Emanuel Wilson finished RB49 and Chris Godwin Jr. WR78, which are two different ladders.

Emanuel Wilson is a running back and Chris Godwin Jr. a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Emanuel Wilson is off in Week 11 and Chris Godwin Jr. in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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