Puka Nacua or Kyren Williams: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Puka Nacua's market-based projection is 22.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 3rd highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Kyren Williams's market-based projection is 18.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 12th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Puka Nacua: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 6th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 6.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kyren Williams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 7th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Puka Nacua has been on the field for 83 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 34 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 3 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 45 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.

In Week 1 against SF he caught 5 of 9 targets for 74 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PHI he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 9 of 12 targets for 125 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against BUF he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 17 of 24 targets for 138 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Kyren Williams has been on the field for 70 percent of LAR snaps, taken 57 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 42 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 6 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 33 targets have averaged 3.1 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he carried 15 times for 88 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PHI he carried 16 times for 80 yards, caught 10 of 13 targets for 67 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against BUF he carried 16 times for 49 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Puka Nacua played 16 games and scored 375.0 PPR points, 23.4 a game, finishing WR1.

He caught 129 of 166 targets for 1715 yards and 10 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 10.4 targets a game, a 78 percent catch rate and 13.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 68 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 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Puka Nacua scored 23.4 PPR points a game and Kyren Williams 15.5, 7.9 a game between them.

Puka Nacua finished WR1 and Kyren Williams RB9, which are two different ladders.

Puka Nacua 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

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

What would change the answer

3.4 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.