Should I start Malik Willis or Darren Waller in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Malik Willis's market-based projection is 14.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Darren Waller's market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Willis, and the board ranks him 134th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 38.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darren Waller, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 160 times and thrown 10.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 160 dropbacks and scrambled 17 times.

In Week 3 against KC he completed 20 of 36 passes for 210 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 9 times for 56 yards.

In Week 4 against MIN he completed 9 of 17 passes for 85 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 11 yards.

In Week 5 against CIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 137 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 8 times for 74 yards.

Through Week 6, Darren Waller has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 8.8 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Malik Willis played 4 games and scored 51.2 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing QB45.

He threw for 422 yards on 35 attempts with 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 8.8 attempts a game at 12.1 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Darren Waller was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Malik Willis scored 12.8 PPR points a game and Darren Waller 9.9, 2.9 a game between them.

Malik Willis finished QB45 and Darren Waller TE33, which are two different ladders.

Malik Willis is a quarterback and Darren Waller a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Malik Willis is off in Week 6 and Darren Waller in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.8 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.