Should I start Savion Williams or Jaxon Smith-Njigba in Week 8?

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 Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 8.

The market-based projections

Savion Williams's market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 21st highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jaxon Smith-Njigba is 4.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba'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, Jaxon Smith-Njigba has been on the field for 83 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 36 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 28 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 15 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 78 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.

In Week 5 against SF he carried 1 time for 16 yards, caught 5 of 8 targets for 102 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 12 of 16 targets for 134 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against KC he carried 2 times for 13 yards, caught 9 of 12 targets for 150 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 Jaxon Smith-Njigba played 17 games and scored 359.9 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing WR2.

He caught 119 of 163 targets for 1793 yards and 10 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 9.6 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 15.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jaxon Smith-Njigba scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Savion Williams 2.1, 19.0 a game between them.

Savion Williams finished WR144 that year and Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR2.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba had 153 more targets than Savion Williams, 163 to 10.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba had 1715 more receiving yards than Savion Williams, 1793 to 78.

This season Jaxon Smith-Njigba holds the bigger snap share, 83 percent against 56 percent.

This season Jaxon Smith-Njigba holds the bigger target share, 36 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Jaxon Smith-Njigba is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Savion Williams.

What would change the answer

Jaxon Smith-Njigba has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.