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Should I start Kendre Miller or Malik Willis in Week 10?

Updated Nov 11, 5:41 PM ET.

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  • : Kendre Miller: Signed with DAL (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Fantasy buzz: Malik Willis placed on IR, are there any Dolphins you should start? (ESPN)
  • : Dolphins put QB Malik Willis on IR with groin injury (ESPN)

Start Malik Willis: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kendre Miller's 39 percent of the snaps and 54 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

RB27 · DAL · bye 14

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection
8.2 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
77

QB33 · MIA · bye 6

2026 vs pass yds line 5-3

Market-based projection
18.2 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
225

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 77th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Willis, and the board ranks him 225th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 38.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Kendre Miller, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

The market-based projection for Malik Willis is 0.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

This season so far

Through Week 7, Kendre Miller has been on the field for 31 percent of NO snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 5 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against MIN he carried 10 times for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NYG he carried 20 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PIT he carried 8 times for 6 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 254 times and thrown 9.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 39 of 254 dropbacks and scrambled 24 times.

In Week 7 against NYJ he completed 14 of 21 passes for 208 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 39 yards.

In Week 8 against NE he completed 21 of 32 passes for 211 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

In Week 9 against DET he completed 13 of 24 passes for 128 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 7 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kendre Miller played 7 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB79.

He carried 47 times for 193 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 more yards.

That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Kendre Miller was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Malik Willis scored 12.8 PPR points a game and Kendre Miller 4.8, 8.0 a game between them.

Kendre Miller finished RB79 and Malik Willis QB45, which are two different ladders.

Kendre Miller is a running back and Malik Willis a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kendre Miller is off in Week 14 and Malik Willis in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

Malik Willis is listed as ir on the injury report.

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