Should I start Javonte Williams or Isaac TeSlaa in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Javonte Williams, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaac TeSlaa, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Javonte Williams is 6.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

Isaac TeSlaa's market-based projection is 5.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 43rd highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Javonte Williams has been on the field for 77 percent of DAL snaps, taken 70 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 40 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 15 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 41 two minute targets.

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

In Week 4 against HOU he carried 19 times for 62 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 21 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

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.

Through Week 5, Isaac TeSlaa has been on the field for 63 percent of DET snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 12.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYJ he caught 3 of 3 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CAR he caught 4 of 8 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Isaac TeSlaa played 17 games and scored 75.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR82.

He caught 16 of 27 targets for 239 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Isaac TeSlaa was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Javonte Williams scored 15.2 PPR points a game and Isaac TeSlaa 4.5, 10.7 a game between them.

Javonte Williams finished RB12 and Isaac TeSlaa WR82, which are two different ladders.

Javonte Williams is a running back and Isaac TeSlaa a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Javonte Williams is off in Week 14 and Isaac TeSlaa in Week 6, 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.