Should I start Josh Allen or Jameson Williams in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Josh Allen's market-based projection is 23.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 2nd highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

Jameson Williams's market-based projection is 10.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 49th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room has them

Josh Allen goes at ADP 1, an average pick of 24.3, and the board has him QB1 in tier 1.

His earliest recorded pick is 1 and his latest 37, a standard deviation of 9.0 picks.

He appears in 16 recorded drafts across the draft formats we track.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jameson Williams, and the board ranks him 30th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Josh Allen has been on the field for 100 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 200 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 200 dropbacks and scrambled 17 times.

In Week 4 against NE he completed 23 of 33 passes for 253 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 4 yards.

In Week 5 against LAR he completed 12 of 19 passes for 210 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 10 times for 121 yards.

In Week 6 against LV he completed 23 of 33 passes for 255 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 4 yards.

Through Week 7, Jameson Williams has been on the field for 89 percent of DET snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 38 targets have averaged 14.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against CAR he caught 6 of 8 targets for 102 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 2 of 4 targets for 47 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against GB he caught 5 of 9 targets for 91 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.

He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.

That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jameson Williams played 17 games and scored 219.9 PPR points, 12.9 a game, finishing WR12.

He caught 65 of 102 targets for 1117 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 17.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 90 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Jameson Williams 12.9, 9.1 a game between them.

Josh Allen finished QB1 and Jameson Williams WR12, which are two different ladders.

Josh Allen is a quarterback and Jameson Williams a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Josh Allen is off in Week 7 and Jameson Williams in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

12.8 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.