Should I start Darren Waller or Justice Hill in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Darren Waller: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Justice Hill: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 125th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Darren Waller's market-based projection is 7.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 115th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Justice Hill is 5.8 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 4, Darren Waller has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 3 against CLE he caught 5 of 8 targets for 51 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 3 of 6 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Justice Hill has been on the field for 42 percent of BAL snaps, taken 12 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against DAL he carried 5 times for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TEN he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ATL he carried 4 times for 73 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Darren Waller played 9 games and scored 88.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing TE33.

He caught 24 of 34 targets for 283 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 45 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Justice Hill played 10 games and scored 65.2 PPR points, 6.5 a game, finishing RB60.

He carried 18 times for 93 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 21 of 27 targets for 169 more yards.

That came to 1.8 carries a game at 5.2 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 37 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Justice Hill was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Darren Waller scored 9.9 PPR points a game and Justice Hill 6.5, 3.3 a game between them.

Darren Waller finished TE33 and Justice Hill RB60, which are two different ladders.

Darren Waller is a tight end and Justice Hill a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Darren Waller is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Justice Hill is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.