Should I start Marvin Mims Jr. or Kyren Williams in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 10:21 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kyren Williams: 63 percent of the snaps and 51 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Marvin Mims Jr.'s 28 percent of the snaps and 9 percent of the targets. 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR20 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 4.5 pts a game
RB16 · LAR · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 5-3
- Market-based projection
- 16.8 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 55
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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 Marvin Mims Jr., and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyren Williams, and the board ranks him 55th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Marvin Mims Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 57th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Kyren Williams is 5.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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, Marvin Mims Jr. has been on the field for 28 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.2 air yards.
In Week 7 against ARI he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 53 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against KC he carried 2 times for 19 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 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 Marvin Mims Jr. played 15 games and scored 93.0 PPR points, 6.2 a game, finishing WR66.
He caught 37 of 51 targets for 322 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.
That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 35 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.
Kyren Williams was available for 2 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Kyren Williams scored 15.5 PPR points a game and Marvin Mims Jr. 6.2, 9.3 a game between them.
Marvin Mims Jr. finished WR66 and Kyren Williams RB9, which are two different ladders.
Marvin Mims Jr. is a wide receiver 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
Marvin Mims Jr. is off in Week 10 and Kyren Williams in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
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.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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- Fantasy football rankings
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