Deebo Samuel Sr. or Alvin Kamara: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 8:36 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Alvin Kamara, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR34 · SF · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 3-1
- Market price
- 8.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB · NO · bye unlisted
2025 vs rush yds line 2-9
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size219 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deebo Samuel Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Alvin Kamara at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Deebo Samuel Sr. at 8.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 97th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Alvin Kamara, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Deebo Samuel Sr. has been on the field for 60 percent of SF snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 2.9 air yards.
In Week 2 against MIA he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against ARI he carried 2 times for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DEN he carried 3 times for 44 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 26 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 4, Alvin Kamara has been on the field for 33 percent of NO snaps, taken 34 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.
His 14 targets have averaged 0.4 air yards.
In Week 2 against BAL he carried 9 times for 15 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 7 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against LV he carried 9 times for 36 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against ATL he carried 7 times for 23 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 35 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deebo Samuel Sr. in the last completed season.
In 2025 Alvin Kamara played 11 games and scored 100.7 PPR points, 9.2 a game, finishing RB46.
He carried 131 times for 471 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 33 of 39 targets for 186 more yards.
That came to 11.9 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.
He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Deebo Samuel Sr. is a wide receiver and Alvin Kamara a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Deebo Samuel Sr. is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Alvin Kamara.
What would change the answer
Alvin Kamara has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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