Should I start Colston Loveland or Javonte Williams in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colston Loveland, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Javonte Williams, and the board ranks him 53rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Colston Loveland's market-based projection is 10.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 51st highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Javonte Williams is 7.2 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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 86 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 2 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 6.9 air yards.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 65 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against NE he caught 7 of 12 targets for 69 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, Javonte Williams has been on the field for 75 percent of DAL snaps, taken 69 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 63 third down targets, had 17 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 48 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against TB he carried 12 times for 45 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 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.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Javonte Williams scored 15.2 PPR points a game and Colston Loveland 10.3, 4.9 a game between them.

Colston Loveland finished TE12 and Javonte Williams RB12, which are two different ladders.

Colston Loveland is a tight end 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

Colston Loveland is off in Week 10 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.