Should I start T.J. Hockenson or Malik Willis in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 12:11 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Malik Willis: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against T.J. Hockenson's 50 percent of the snaps and 14 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.
TE7 · MIN · bye 6
2026 vs anytime td line 3-5
- Market-based projection
- 10.3 pts a game
QB5 · MIA · bye 6
2026 vs pass yds line 5-3
- Market-based projection
- 18.2 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 70
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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 T.J. Hockenson, and the board ranks him 67th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Willis, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 38.
The market-based projections
T.J. Hockenson's market-based projection is 10.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 65th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Malik Willis, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, T.J. Hockenson has been on the field for 65 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 16 of the offence's 75 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 44 targets have averaged 7.5 air yards.
In Week 7 against IND he caught 4 of 5 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against DET he caught 4 of 5 targets for 58 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 9 against BUF he caught 4 of 7 targets for 33 yards and did not score.
Through Week 9, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 254 times and thrown 9.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 39 of 254 dropbacks and scrambled 24 times.
In Week 7 against NYJ he completed 14 of 21 passes for 208 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 39 yards.
In Week 8 against NE he completed 21 of 32 passes for 211 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.
In Week 9 against DET he completed 13 of 24 passes for 128 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 7 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 T.J. Hockenson played 15 games and scored 112.8 PPR points, 7.5 a game, finishing TE26.
He caught 51 of 66 targets for 438 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 8.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
T.J. Hockenson was available for 11 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Malik Willis scored 12.8 PPR points a game and T.J. Hockenson 7.5, 5.3 a game between them.
T.J. Hockenson finished TE26 and Malik Willis QB45, which are two different ladders.
T.J. Hockenson is a tight end and Malik Willis a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Malik Willis is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Malik Willis has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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