Start Javonte Williams or Jeremiyah Love? Week 1
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Jeremiyah Love over Javonte Williams
Wrong: 13.0 to 24.2
- LAC D vs RB
- 22.0
- 15th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 43%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 11%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 13.0
- PPR pts
- Books imply
- 9.2
- fantasy pts
- NYG D vs RB
- 24.9
- 13th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 71%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 17%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 24.2
- PPR pts
Our Week 1 call
Start Jeremiyah Love over Javonte Williams in Week 1.
Javonte Williams is priced by the books at 9.2 projected points and Jeremiyah Love is not priced at all, so we are leaning on where drafters take them. Drafters take Jeremiyah Love at ADP 27 and Javonte Williams at 31.
What the books imply
No sportsbook posted a player market for Jeremiyah Love in Week 1.
Player prop markets imply 9.2 fantasy points for Javonte Williams, with 33 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
Week 1 matchups
Jeremiyah Love and ARI visit LAC.
LAC allowed 22.0 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 15th fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 102 yards and a touchdown against LAC and caught passes for 18 more yards.
Javonte Williams and DAL visit NYG on Sunday at 8:20 PM ET.
NYG allowed 24.9 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 13th most in the league.
Running backs ran for 55 yards and a touchdown against NYG and caught passes for 31 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Javonte Williams has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Jeremiyah Love was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Javonte Williams was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Javonte Williams played 16 games for DAL and scored 242.8 PPR points, 15.2 a game, finishing RB12.
He ran 252 times for 1201 yards and 11 touchdowns, and caught 35 of 51 targets for 137 yards.
He was on the field for 68 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Javonte Williams, Week 17 of 2025 against WAS: 25 of 92 snaps, 13 carries for 54 yards, 2 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 1 touchdown, 11.4 PPR points.
Javonte Williams, Week 16 of 2025 against LAC: 33 of 58 snaps, 9 carries for 34 yards, 3 targets and 2 catches for 9 yards, 6.3 PPR points.
Javonte Williams, Week 15 of 2025 against MIN: 20 of 70 snaps, 15 carries for 91 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 1 touchdown, 15.1 PPR points.
How Week 1 went
Jeremiyah Love scored 13.0 PPR points and Javonte Williams scored 24.2.
The call was wrong: Javonte Williams outscored Jeremiyah Love by 11.2.
Jeremiyah Love, Week 1 against LAC: 32 of 75 snaps, 11 carries for 41 yards, 4 targets and 2 catches for 9 yards, 1 touchdown, 13.0 PPR points.
Jeremiyah Love finished as the week's RB21 in PPR scoring.
Javonte Williams finished 15.0 points above the 9.2 the props implied.
Javonte Williams, Week 1 against NYG: 41 of 58 snaps, 12 carries for 41 yards, 5 targets and 5 catches for 31 yards, 2 touchdowns, 24.2 PPR points.
Javonte Williams finished as the week's RB9 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 1 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
RB4 · DAL · bye 14
2025 vs catches line 6-10
- Overall rank
- 5
- Draft pick
- ADP 5
- Tier
- 3
Ranked behind
RB11 · ARI · bye 14
- Overall rank
- 28
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 1, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board23
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 3 and tier 4
- Board size244 draftable players
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