Should I start Zach Charbonnet or Jameson Williams in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 10.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 40 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jameson Williams's market-based projection is 11.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 72nd highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Through Week 5, Jameson Williams has been on the field for 90 percent of DET snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 16.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYJ he caught 4 of 4 targets for 49 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 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.

Jameson Williams was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jameson Williams scored 12.9 PPR points a game and Zach Charbonnet 11.3, 1.6 a game between them.

Zach Charbonnet finished RB24 and Jameson Williams WR12, which are two different ladders.

Zach Charbonnet is a running back 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

Zach Charbonnet is off in Week 11 and Jameson Williams in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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