Over the next five gameweeks our model projects 16 points for N.Williams and 19 for Egan, so Egan is the pick.

What does this comparison account for?

Price, ownership, form, expected goals and assists per 90, minutes reliability, and the difficulty of each player's next five fixtures.

N.Williams vs Egan

Head-to-head over the next 5 gameweeks. Our model favours Egan by 3 projected points.

N.Williams

NOTT'M FOREST · DEF · £5.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

LIV (A)TOT (H)AVL (A)COV (H)CRY (A)

Egan

HULL CITY · DEF · £4.0

projected points / 5 GW

Buy78%

COV (A)AVL (H)CHE (A)NEW (A)EVE (H)

Stat by stat

£5.0Price£4.0

8Total points17

4.0Form8.5

4.0Points / game8.5

8.8%Owned2.0%

180Minutes180

0Goals0

1Assists0

0.06xG0.00

0.17xA0.00

2.7ICT4.6

3.2Avg FDR (5)3.0

16Projected pts19

The verdict

Egan comes out ahead on the five-gameweek projection (19 vs 16), largely because of the fixture run (average difficulty 3.0) and better current form.

Buy — N.Williams is one of the better DEF options for the next 5 gameweeks.

Buy — Egan is one of the better DEF options for the next 5 gameweeks.

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