Should I start Javonte Williams or Tucker Kraft in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tucker Kraft, and the board ranks him 66th 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.

Tucker Kraft's market-based projection is 10.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 55th 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, Tucker Kraft has been on the field for 82 percent of GB snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 3 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 49 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he caught 5 of 8 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he caught 4 of 6 targets for 48 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CAR he caught 6 of 6 targets for 53 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Tucker Kraft played 8 games and scored 117.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE24.

He caught 32 of 44 targets for 489 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 5-6 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 15.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Javonte Williams was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Javonte Williams scored 15.2 PPR points a game and Tucker Kraft 14.7, 0.5 a game between them.

Javonte Williams finished RB12 and Tucker Kraft TE24, which are two different ladders.

Javonte Williams is a running back and Tucker Kraft a tight end, 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 Tucker Kraft in Week 11, 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.