Malik Willis or Jonathon Brooks: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 4:16 AM ET
Malik Willis is the start on the books' latest price, 14.6 points to Jonathon Brooks's 5.8, with Jonathon Brooks on the price the books posted for his Week 2 game because his next market is not posted yet. This answer reorders when it is. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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QB28 · MIA · bye 6
2025 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Books price
- 14.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB36 · CAR · bye 5
- Books price
- 5.8 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 137
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size227 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Malik Willis: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 134th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 90.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jonathon Brooks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 106.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Malik Willis at 14.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 50th highest figure of the 175 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Jonathon Brooks, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 65 times and thrown 9.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 14 of 65 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.
In Week 1 against LV he completed 15 of 27 passes for 220 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 39 yards.
In Week 2 against SF he completed 14 of 23 passes for 197 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 6 yards.
Through Week 2, Jonathon Brooks has been on the field for 25 percent of CAR snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against CHI he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 48 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against ATL he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Malik Willis played 4 games and scored 51.2 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing QB45.
He threw for 422 yards on 35 attempts with 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 8.8 attempts a game at 12.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Jonathon Brooks in the last completed season.
Side by side
Malik Willis is a quarterback and Jonathon Brooks a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Malik Willis is off in Week 6 and Jonathon Brooks in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jonathon Brooks is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Jonathon Brooks has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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