Should I start Kyle Pitts Sr. or Kyren Williams in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Pitts Sr., and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyren Williams, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kyle Pitts Sr.'s market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 68th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kyren Williams is 5.1 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.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Kyle Pitts Sr. has been on the field for 55 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 8 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 2.6 air yards.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 5 of 5 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Kyren Williams has been on the field for 68 percent of LAR snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 8 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 39 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against LAC he carried 16 times for 56 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. played 17 games and scored 210.8 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing TE2.

He caught 88 of 118 targets for 928 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyren Williams scored 15.5 PPR points a game and Kyle Pitts Sr. 12.4, 3.1 a game between them.

Kyle Pitts Sr. finished TE2 and Kyren Williams RB9, which are two different ladders.

Kyle Pitts Sr. is a tight end and Kyren Williams a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

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.