Should I start Kyren Williams or Samaje Perine in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kyren Williams is 5.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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 market-based projection is 4.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 100th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based 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, 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.

Through Week 8, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 35 percent of CIN snaps, taken 23 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 1 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

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

In Week 7 against BAL he carried 4 times for 16 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TEN he carried 4 times for 10 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

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.

Kyren Williams was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Kyren Williams scored 15.5 PPR points a game and Samaje Perine 5.2, 10.3 a game between them.

Kyren Williams finished RB9 that year and Samaje Perine RB57.

Kyren Williams had 175 more carries than Samaje Perine, 259 to 84.

Kyren Williams had 19 more catches than Samaje Perine, 36 to 17.

This season Kyren Williams holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 35 percent.

This season Kyren Williams holds the bigger share of the carries, 55 percent against 23 percent.

Byes and availability

Kyren 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

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