Malik Willis or Keenan Allen: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Malik Willis at 15.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 39th highest figure of the 217 players the market prices.

The player markets price Keenan Allen at 7.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 127th highest figure of the 217 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Malik Willis: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 110th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 38.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Keenan Allen: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 127 times and thrown 10.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 19 of 127 dropbacks and scrambled 13 times.

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.

In Week 3 against KC he completed 20 of 36 passes for 210 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 9 times for 56 yards.

In Week 4 against MIN he completed 9 of 17 passes for 85 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 11 yards.

Through Week 3, Keenan Allen has been on the field for 64 percent of IND snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 20 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 6.2 air yards.

In Week 1 against BAL he caught 6 of 6 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against KC he caught 1 of 5 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against HOU he caught 6 of 9 targets for 63 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

In 2025 Keenan Allen played 17 games and scored 182.7 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR29.

He caught 81 of 122 targets for 777 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Keenan Allen was available for 13 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Malik Willis scored 12.8 PPR points a game and Keenan Allen 10.7, 2.0 a game between them.

Malik Willis finished QB45 and Keenan Allen WR29, which are two different ladders.

Malik Willis is a quarterback and Keenan Allen a wide receiver, 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 Keenan Allen in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Keenan Allen is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

7.7 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 price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.