Start Michael Penix Jr. or Malik Willis? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Michael Penix Jr. over Malik Willis
- Market projects
- 14.5
- fantasy pts
- Market projects
- 13.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 100%
- Through Week 4
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Our Week 5 call
Start Michael Penix Jr. over Malik Willis in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Michael Penix Jr. at 14.5 points and Malik Willis at 13.0, a gap of 1.5. Malik Willis's number is scaled up from a partial market: not every stat the position needs is posted yet, so the rest is estimated from what is.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 14.5 fantasy points for Michael Penix Jr., with 100 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Michael Penix Jr. at 221.5 passing yards and 1.5 passing touchdowns, with a 8% chance to score a touchdown (16, 15 and 15 market sources).
Player markets imply 13.0 fantasy points for Malik Willis, with 80 percent of the markets a QB needs posted.
The market has Malik Willis at 192.5 passing yards, with a 22% chance to score a touchdown (10 and 11 market sources).
That puts Michael Penix Jr. 1.5 points ahead of Malik Willis on the market projections.
Injury status
Michael Penix Jr. is not on the injury report.
Malik Willis is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Malik Willis played 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 127 times and threw an average of 10.0 air yards per attempt.
Malik Willis, Week 1 against LV: 56 of 56 snaps, 15 of 27 passes for 220 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, 6 carries for 39 yards.
Malik Willis, Week 2 against SF: 59 of 59 snaps, 14 of 23 passes for 197 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions, 2 carries for 6 yards.
Malik Willis, Week 3 against KC: 73 of 73 snaps, 20 of 36 passes for 210 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception, 9 carries for 56 yards.
Malik Willis, Week 4 against MIN: 39 of 39 snaps, 9 of 17 passes for 85 yards, 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, 2 carries for 11 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Malik Willis played 4 games for GB and scored 51.2 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing QB45.
He completed 30 of 35 passes for 422 yards, 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran 22 times for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns.
He was on the field for 10 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 5 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
QB27 · ATL · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 4-5
- Overall rank
- 125
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
Ranked behind
QB28 · MIA · bye 6
2026 vs pass yds line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 145
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 5, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board20
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 8 and tier 9
- Board size219 draftable players
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