Should I start J.K. Dobbins or Savion Williams in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Savion Williams, and the board ranks him 49th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has J.K. Dobbins at 7.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Savion Williams's market-based projection is 6.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 66th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

J.K. Dobbins's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, J.K. Dobbins has been on the field for 41 percent of DEN snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 8 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have come 1.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 18 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against SEA he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against ARI he carried 6 times for 23 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 J.K. Dobbins played 10 games and scored 115.9 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing RB43.

He carried 153 times for 772 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 11 of 14 targets for 37 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Savion Williams was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 J.K. Dobbins scored 11.6 PPR points a game and Savion Williams 2.1, 9.5 a game between them.

J.K. Dobbins finished RB43 and Savion Williams WR144, which are two different ladders.

J.K. Dobbins is a running back and Savion Williams a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

J.K. Dobbins is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Savion Williams.

What would change the answer

J.K. Dobbins has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.