Michael Penix Jr. or Isaiah Williams: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 11:36 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on 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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QB26 · ATL · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 4-5
- Market price
- 14.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR45 · NYJ · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Market price
- 6.6 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 124
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 18
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 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.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Michael Penix Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Isaiah Williams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Michael Penix Jr. at 14.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Isaiah Williams, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Michael Penix Jr. has been on the field for 100 percent of ATL snaps, dropped back 46 times and thrown 6.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 2 of 46 dropbacks.
In Week 3 against GB he completed 18 of 25 passes for 256 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.
In Week 4 against NO he completed 15 of 20 passes for 223 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.
Through Week 4, Isaiah Williams has been on the field for 79 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 29 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 12 targets have averaged 7.0 air yards.
In Week 2 against GB he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 34 yards and did not score.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Michael Penix Jr. played 9 games and scored 123.3 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB33.
He threw for 1982 yards on 276 attempts with 9 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 70 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 30.7 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 93 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 6 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Michael Penix Jr. scored 13.7 PPR points a game and Isaiah Williams 3.9, 9.8 a game between them.
Michael Penix Jr. finished QB33 and Isaiah Williams WR98, which are two different ladders.
Michael Penix Jr. is a quarterback and Isaiah Williams a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Michael Penix Jr. is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Isaiah Williams.
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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