Should I start Josh Allen or Savion Williams in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Allen, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Savion Williams, and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Josh Allen is 5.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Savion Williams's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 30th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

Josh Allen's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Josh Allen has been on the field for 100 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 237 times and thrown 9.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 237 dropbacks and scrambled 19 times.

In Week 5 against LAR he completed 12 of 19 passes for 210 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 10 times for 121 yards.

In Week 6 against LV he completed 23 of 33 passes for 255 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 4 yards.

In Week 8 against BAL he completed 21 of 34 passes for 289 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 7 times for 30 yards.

Through Week 8, Savion Williams has been on the field for 56 percent of GB snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 38 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 7.0 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.

In Week 8 against CAR he carried 1 time for 18 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.

He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.

That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 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.

Josh Allen was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Savion Williams 2.1, 19.9 a game between them.

Josh Allen finished QB1 and Savion Williams WR144, which are two different ladders.

Josh Allen is a quarterback 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

Josh Allen is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Savion Williams.

What would change the answer

Josh Allen has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.