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Should I start Savion Williams or Javonte Williams in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 11:06 AM ET.

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Start Javonte Williams: 74 percent of the snaps and 73 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Savion Williams's 56 percent of the snaps and 9 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

WR9 · GB · bye unlisted

2025 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
6.3 pts a game

RB4 · DAL · bye 14

2026 vs carries line 3-4

Market-based projection
15.1 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
20

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Savion Williams, and the board ranks him 19th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Javonte Williams, and the board ranks him 20th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Savion Williams's market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Javonte Williams is 7.3 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, Savion Williams has been on the field for 56 percent of GB snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 47 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 Savion Williams played 12 games and scored 25.5 PPR points, 2.1 a game, finishing WR144.

He caught 10 of 10 targets for 78 yards and 1 touchdown, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 7.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 12 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 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Javonte Williams scored 15.2 PPR points a game and Savion Williams 2.1, 13.1 a game between them.

Savion Williams finished WR144 and Javonte Williams RB12, which are two different ladders.

Savion Williams 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

Javonte Williams is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Savion Williams.

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.

Should I drop Javonte Williams?

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