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Should I start Savion Williams or Kyle Monangai in Week 9?

Updated Nov 4, 10:06 AM ET.

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Start Savion Williams: 56 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kyle Monangai's 41 percent of the snaps and 43 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.

Should I drop Kyle Monangai for Savion Williams?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Savion Williams projects 47 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (5.9 a game over 8 games), Kyle Monangai 37 (4.6 a game over 8 games). Kyle Monangai is listed questionable.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

WR40 · GB · bye unlisted

2025 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
5.8 pts a game

RB34 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs carries line 4-0

Overall rank
103

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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 Savion Williams, and the board ranks him 101st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Monangai, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Savion Williams's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 104th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kyle Monangai is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

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.

Through Week 4, Kyle Monangai has been on the field for 41 percent of CHI snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 6 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 10 times for 47 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 30 times for 146 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Kyle Monangai played 17 games and scored 146.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB30.

He carried 169 times for 783 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 18 of 30 targets for 164 more yards.

That came to 9.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kyle Monangai was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyle Monangai scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Savion Williams 2.1, 6.5 a game between them.

Savion Williams finished WR144 and Kyle Monangai RB30, which are two different ladders.

Savion Williams is a wide receiver and Kyle Monangai a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kyle Monangai is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Savion Williams.

Kyle Monangai is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Kyle Monangai for Savion Williams?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Savion Williams projects 47 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (5.9 a game over 8 games), Kyle Monangai 37 (4.6 a game over 8 games). Kyle Monangai is listed questionable.

  • Should I drop Savion Williams for Kyle Monangai?

    No. Keep Savion Williams: he projects 47 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (5.9 a game over 8 games), Kyle Monangai 37 (4.6 a game over 8 games). Kyle Monangai is listed questionable.

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