Should I start Jalen Royals or Isaiah Williams in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Isaiah Williams over Jalen Royals
- Market projects
- 6.1
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 75%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 10%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 5.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 31%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 4
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Isaiah Williams, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR47 · KC · bye unlisted
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- Market-based projection
- 5.2 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR · NYJ · bye unlisted
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- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size229 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Royals: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Isaiah Williams at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Jalen Royals's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 125th highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Isaiah Williams, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Jalen Royals has been on the field for 31 percent of KC snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.
In Week 2 against IND he caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LV he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Isaiah Williams has been on the field for 75 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 14 targets have averaged 9.1 air yards.
In Week 3 against DET he caught 1 of 2 targets for 21 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 73 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against CLE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jalen Royals played 7 games and scored 2.4 PPR points, 0.3 a game.
He caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 2.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 9 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Isaiah Williams played 15 games and scored 58.7 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing WR98.
He caught 26 of 36 targets for 193 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 1 red zone target.
That came to 2.4 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 7.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 36 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Isaiah Williams was available for 8 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Isaiah Williams scored 3.9 PPR points a game and Jalen Royals 0.3, 3.6 a game between them.
Isaiah Williams had 33 more targets than Jalen Royals, 36 to 3.
Isaiah Williams had 189 more receiving yards than Jalen Royals, 193 to 4.
This season Isaiah Williams holds the bigger snap share, 75 percent against 31 percent.
This season Isaiah Williams holds the bigger target share, 10 percent against 5 percent.
What would change the answer
Isaiah Williams has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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