Should I start Savion Williams or Rashod Bateman in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Savion Williams, and the board ranks him 29th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashod Bateman, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Savion Williams's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 36th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Rashod Bateman is 1.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Savion Williams has been on the field for 56 percent of GB snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Rashod Bateman has been on the field for 70 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against ATL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 4 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Savion Williams played 12 games and scored 25.5 PPR points, 2.1 a game, finishing WR144.

He caught 10 of 10 targets for 78 yards and 1 touchdown, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 7.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 12 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Rashod Bateman played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing WR102.

He caught 19 of 38 targets for 224 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rashod Bateman was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Rashod Bateman scored 4.3 PPR points a game and Savion Williams 2.1, 2.1 a game between them.

Savion Williams finished WR144 that year and Rashod Bateman WR102.

Rashod Bateman had 28 more targets than Savion Williams, 38 to 10.

Rashod Bateman had 146 more receiving yards than Savion Williams, 224 to 78.

This season Rashod Bateman holds the bigger snap share, 70 percent against 56 percent.

This season Rashod Bateman holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Rashod Bateman is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Savion Williams.

What would change the answer

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