Should I start Kyren Williams or Jake Ferguson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyren Williams, and the board ranks him 53rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jake Ferguson, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kyren Williams is 6.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

Jake Ferguson's market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 52nd highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Kyren Williams has been on the field for 71 percent of LAR snaps, taken 56 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 39 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 6 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 2.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he carried 16 times for 80 yards, caught 10 of 13 targets for 67 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against BUF he carried 16 times for 49 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against ARI he carried 10 times for 50 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Jake Ferguson has been on the field for 68 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 4.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against HOU he caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 3 of 6 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kyren Williams played 17 games and scored 263.3 PPR points, 15.5 a game, finishing RB9.

He carried 259 times for 1252 yards and 10 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 50 targets for 281 more yards.

That came to 15.2 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jake Ferguson played 17 games and scored 188.1 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE5.

He caught 82 of 102 targets for 600 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 23 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 7.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyren Williams scored 15.5 PPR points a game and Jake Ferguson 11.1, 4.4 a game between them.

Kyren Williams finished RB9 and Jake Ferguson TE5, which are two different ladders.

Kyren Williams is a running back and Jake Ferguson a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kyren Williams is off in Week 11 and Jake Ferguson in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Kyren Williams has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.