Should I start Tony Pollard or Kyle Williams in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tony Pollard, and the board ranks him 33rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Williams, and the board ranks him 155th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tony Pollard's market-based projection is 12.3 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 44th highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kyle Williams is 1.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 62 percent of TEN snaps, taken 71 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 41 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 10 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 6 against IND he carried 19 times for 76 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CLE he carried 25 times for 129 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 26 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against CIN he carried 21 times for 117 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 20 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 9, Kyle Williams has been on the field for 40 percent of NE snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 20.8 air yards.

In Week 7 against CHI he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against GB he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tony Pollard played 17 games and scored 185.8 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing RB23.

He carried 242 times for 1082 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 41 targets for 206 more yards.

That came to 14.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Tony Pollard scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Kyle Williams 2.9, 8.0 a game between them.

Tony Pollard finished RB23 and Kyle Williams WR112, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Tony Pollard is off in Week 9 and Kyle Williams in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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