Should I start Kyren Williams or Justice Hill in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyren Williams, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Justice Hill, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kyren Williams is 5.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Justice Hill's market-based projection is 4.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 201 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Kyren Williams has been on the field for 68 percent of LAR snaps, taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 7 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 41 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against BUF he carried 16 times for 49 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against ARI he carried 10 times for 50 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against LV he carried 16 times for 99 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, Justice Hill has been on the field for 43 percent of BAL snaps, taken 10 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 0 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 1.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against ATL he carried 4 times for 73 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Justice Hill played 10 games and scored 65.2 PPR points, 6.5 a game, finishing RB60.

He carried 18 times for 93 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 21 of 27 targets for 169 more yards.

That came to 1.8 carries a game at 5.2 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 37 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kyren Williams was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Kyren Williams scored 15.5 PPR points a game and Justice Hill 6.5, 9.0 a game between them.

Kyren Williams finished RB9 that year and Justice Hill RB60.

Kyren Williams had 241 more carries than Justice Hill, 259 to 18.

Kyren Williams had 15 more catches than Justice Hill, 36 to 21.

This season Kyren Williams holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 43 percent.

This season Kyren Williams holds the bigger share of the carries, 54 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Kyren Williams is off in Week 11 and Justice Hill in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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