Should I start Javonte Williams or Quentin Johnston in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Javonte Williams, and the board ranks him 62nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Quentin Johnston, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Javonte Williams is 6.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

Quentin Johnston's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Javonte Williams has been on the field for 74 percent of DAL snaps, taken 68 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 69 third down targets, had 21 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 50 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have come 1.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 8 against ARI he carried 24 times for 56 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 1 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Quentin Johnston has been on the field for 81 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 13.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against SEA he carried 1 time for -4 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against KC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LAR he caught 4 of 4 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

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 Quentin Johnston played 14 games and scored 171.2 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR34.

He caught 51 of 85 targets for 735 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 77 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 Quentin Johnston 12.2, 2.9 a game between them.

Javonte Williams finished RB12 and Quentin Johnston WR34, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Javonte Williams is off in Week 14 and Quentin Johnston in Week 7, 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.