Should I start Malik Willis or Nicholas Singleton in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 4:46 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Malik Willis: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Nicholas Singleton's 12 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the carries. 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.

Should I drop Nicholas Singleton for Malik Willis?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Malik Willis projects 158 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.4 a game over 11 games), Nicholas Singleton 7 (0.7 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Malik Willis

QB23 · MIA · bye 6

2026 vs pass yds line 3-2

Market-based projection: 13.9 pts a game

Nicholas Singleton

RB49 · TEN · bye 9

Overall rank: 144

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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 Malik Willis, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 38.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Nicholas Singleton, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Malik Willis's market-based projection is 13.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 54th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Nicholas Singleton is 1.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 160 times and thrown 10.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 160 dropbacks and scrambled 17 times.

In Week 3 against KC he completed 20 of 36 passes for 210 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 9 times for 56 yards.

In Week 4 against MIN he completed 9 of 17 passes for 85 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 11 yards.

In Week 5 against CIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 137 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 8 times for 74 yards.

Through Week 4, Nicholas Singleton has been on the field for 12 percent of TEN snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 11 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

In Week 2 against PHI he carried 4 times for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 3 times for 2 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Malik Willis played 4 games and scored 51.2 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing QB45.

He threw for 422 yards on 35 attempts with 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 8.8 attempts a game at 12.1 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Nicholas Singleton is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Malik Willis is a quarterback and Nicholas Singleton a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Malik Willis is off in Week 6 and Nicholas Singleton in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Nicholas Singleton for Malik Willis?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Malik Willis projects 158 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.4 a game over 11 games), Nicholas Singleton 7 (0.7 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Malik Willis for Nicholas Singleton?
No. Keep Malik Willis: he projects 158 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.4 a game over 11 games), Nicholas Singleton 7 (0.7 a game over 10 games).