Should I start Jameson Williams or Samaje Perine in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jameson Williams, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jameson Williams's market-based projection is 10.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 75th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Samaje Perine is 7.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

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.

Through Week 7, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 35 percent of CIN snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he carried 14 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against BAL he carried 4 times for 16 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jameson Williams was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jameson Williams scored 12.9 PPR points a game and Samaje Perine 5.2, 7.7 a game between them.

Jameson Williams finished WR12 and Samaje Perine RB57, which are two different ladders.

Jameson Williams is a wide receiver and Samaje Perine a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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