Should I start Javonte Williams or Trevor Lawrence in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Javonte Williams, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Trevor Lawrence, and the board ranks him 48th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Javonte Williams is 6.9 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.

The market-based projection for Trevor Lawrence is 19.6 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 2 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback'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 so far

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.

Through Week 6, Trevor Lawrence has been on the field for 97 percent of JAX snaps, dropped back 200 times and thrown 8.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 200 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 4 against CIN he completed 18 of 23 passes for 227 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

In Week 5 against PHI he completed 24 of 39 passes for 331 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 25 yards.

In Week 6 against HOU he completed 24 of 41 passes for 306 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

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 Trevor Lawrence played 17 games and scored 350.2 PPR points, 20.6 a game, finishing QB4.

He threw for 4007 yards on 560 attempts with 29 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and ran for 359 yards and 9 touchdowns.

That came to 32.9 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Trevor Lawrence was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Trevor Lawrence scored 20.6 PPR points a game and Javonte Williams 15.2, 5.4 a game between them.

Javonte Williams finished RB12 and Trevor Lawrence QB4, which are two different ladders.

Javonte Williams is a running back and Trevor Lawrence a quarterback, 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 Trevor Lawrence in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.