Should I start Kyle Williams or Samaje Perine in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Williams, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kyle Williams's market-based projection is 4.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 110th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Samaje Perine is 1.8 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Kyle Williams has been on the field for 28 percent of NE snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 16.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LV he caught 3 of 3 targets for 91 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 37 percent of CIN snaps, taken 25 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he carried 14 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kyle Williams played 17 games and scored 49.2 PPR points, 2.9 a game, finishing WR112.

He caught 10 of 21 targets for 209 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 1.2 targets a game, a 48 percent catch rate and 20.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kyle Williams was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Kyle Williams 2.9, 2.3 a game between them.

Kyle Williams finished WR112 and Samaje Perine RB57, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Kyle Williams is off in Week 11 and Samaje Perine in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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