Should I start Kyren Williams or Ja'Kobi Lane in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyren Williams, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ja'Kobi Lane, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kyren Williams is 5.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.

Ja'Kobi Lane's market-based projection is 3.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 175 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 8

Through Week 8, Kyren Williams has been on the field for 68 percent of LAR snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 8 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 39 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

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

In Week 7 against LV he carried 16 times for 99 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against LAC he carried 16 times for 56 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Ja'Kobi Lane has been on the field for 54 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 1 target 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.

Ja'Kobi Lane is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Kyren Williams is a running back and Ja'Kobi Lane a wide receiver, 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 Ja'Kobi Lane in Week 13, 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.