Javonte Williams or James Cook III: who should I start in Week 6?
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 13, 2026 at 11:36 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Javonte Williams over James Cook III
- Market projects
- 17.8
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 77%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 11%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 17.5
- fantasy pts
- LV D vs RB
- 22.3
- 12th most to RBs (2026)
The market prices Javonte Williams 0.2 points a game ahead of James Cook III this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the market price is the live read on these two.
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RB5 · DAL · bye 14
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Market price
- 17.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB6 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-2
- Market price
- 17.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.2 points a game
- Board size183 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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What the player markets price
The player markets price Javonte Williams at 17.8 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 13th highest figure of the 139 players the market prices.
The player markets price James Cook III at 17.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 17th highest figure of the 139 players the market prices.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Javonte Williams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 7th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on James Cook III: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 8th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 2; 2QB: ADP 10.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Javonte Williams has been on the field for 77 percent of DAL snaps, taken 69 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 45 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 13 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 31 two minute targets.
His 20 targets have come 1.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against BAL he carried 19 times for 98 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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.
Through Week 5, James Cook III has been on the field for 68 percent of BUF snaps, taken 67 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 40 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 7 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.
His 11 targets have come 0.5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against LAC he carried 24 times for 154 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against NE he carried 12 times for 75 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against LAR he carried 25 times for 111 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
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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 James Cook III played 17 games and scored 302.2 PPR points, 17.8 a game, finishing RB6.
He carried 309 times for 1621 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 291 more yards.
That came to 18.2 carries a game at 5.2 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.
He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
James Cook III was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 James Cook III scored 17.8 PPR points a game and Javonte Williams 15.2, 2.6 a game between them.
Javonte Williams finished RB12 that year and James Cook III RB6.
James Cook III had 57 more carries than Javonte Williams, 309 to 252.
Javonte Williams had 2 more catches than James Cook III, 35 to 33.
This season Javonte Williams holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 68 percent.
This season Javonte Williams holds the bigger share of the carries, 69 percent against 67 percent.
Byes and availability
Javonte Williams is off in Week 14 and James Cook III in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
0.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.
The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.
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