Should I start Jordan Addison or Javonte Williams in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Addison, and the board ranks him 24th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Javonte Williams, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jordan Addison's market-based projection is 8.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Javonte Williams is 7.4 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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Jordan Addison has been on the field for 90 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 10 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 13.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against TB he caught 5 of 9 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against MIA he carried 1 time for -1 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 52 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against IND he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Javonte Williams has been on the field for 75 percent of DAL snaps, taken 69 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 40 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 17 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 48 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against TB he carried 12 times for 45 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against GB he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against PHI he carried 25 times for 155 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jordan Addison played 14 games and scored 135.1 PPR points, 9.7 a game, finishing WR45.

He caught 42 of 79 targets for 610 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 5.6 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 15 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Javonte Williams was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Javonte Williams scored 15.2 PPR points a game and Jordan Addison 9.7, 5.5 a game between them.

Jordan Addison finished WR45 and Javonte Williams RB12, which are two different ladders.

Jordan Addison is a wide receiver and Javonte Williams a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jordan Addison is off in Week 6 and Javonte Williams in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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