Should I start Malik Willis or Xavier Worthy in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Malik Willis's market-based projection is 17.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 16th highest figure of the 232 players with a market-based projection.

Xavier Worthy's market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 95th highest figure of the 232 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Willis, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 38.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 225 times and thrown 9.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 225 dropbacks and scrambled 22 times.

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.

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.

Through Week 8, Xavier Worthy has been on the field for 84 percent of KC snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 2 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 41 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 7 of 7 targets for 73 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against SEA he caught 3 of 6 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DEN he caught 3 of 6 targets for 13 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.

In 2025 Xavier Worthy played 14 games and scored 109.9 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR59.

He caught 42 of 73 targets for 532 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5.2 targets a game, a 58 percent catch rate and 12.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Xavier Worthy was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Malik Willis scored 12.8 PPR points a game and Xavier Worthy 7.9, 4.9 a game between them.

Malik Willis finished QB45 and Xavier Worthy WR59, which are two different ladders.

Malik Willis is a quarterback and Xavier Worthy a wide receiver, 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 Xavier Worthy in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.5 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.