Jonathan Taylor or Kyren Williams: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 5:26 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Jonathan Taylor over Kyren Williams
- Market projects
- 20.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 82%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 11%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 18.9
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 70%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 16%
- Through Week 5
Jonathan Taylor's market-based projection is 1.4 points a game ahead of Kyren Williams's this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the market-based projection is the live read on these two.
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RB5 · IND · bye 13
2026 vs carries line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 20.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB6 · LAR · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 18.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference1.4 points a game
- Board size200 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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The market-based projections
Jonathan Taylor's market-based projection is 20.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 7th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
Kyren Williams's market-based projection is 18.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 13th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jonathan Taylor: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 5th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 4.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kyren Williams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 7th overall on the rest of his evidence.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Jonathan Taylor has been on the field for 82 percent of IND snaps, taken 75 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 48 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 11 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 19 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against HOU he carried 23 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against WAS he carried 20 times for 95 yards, caught 1 of 4 targets for 2 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 5 against PIT he carried 15 times for 45 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 37 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Kyren Williams has been on the field for 70 percent of LAR snaps, taken 57 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 42 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 11 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 6 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 33 targets have averaged 3.1 air yards.
In Week 3 against DEN he carried 15 times for 88 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 70 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against PHI he carried 16 times for 80 yards, caught 10 of 13 targets for 67 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 5 against BUF he carried 16 times for 49 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jonathan Taylor played 17 games and scored 362.3 PPR points, 21.3 a game, finishing RB4.
He carried 323 times for 1585 yards and 18 touchdowns, and caught 46 of 55 targets for 378 more yards.
That came to 19.0 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.7 catches a game.
He was on the field for 84 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Kyren Williams played 17 games and scored 263.3 PPR points, 15.5 a game, finishing RB9.
He carried 259 times for 1252 yards and 10 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 50 targets for 281 more yards.
That came to 15.2 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Jonathan Taylor scored 21.3 PPR points a game and Kyren Williams 15.5, 5.8 a game between them.
Jonathan Taylor finished RB4 that year and Kyren Williams RB9.
Jonathan Taylor had 64 more carries than Kyren Williams, 323 to 259.
Jonathan Taylor had 10 more catches than Kyren Williams, 46 to 36.
This season Jonathan Taylor holds the bigger snap share, 82 percent against 70 percent.
This season Jonathan Taylor holds the bigger share of the carries, 75 percent against 57 percent.
Byes and availability
Jonathan Taylor is off in Week 13 and Kyren Williams in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
1.4 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.
The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.
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