Deebo Samuel Sr. or Alvin Kamara: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Deebo Samuel Sr. at 10.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 books. That is the 90th highest figure of the 170 players the books price.

The player markets price Alvin Kamara at 10.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 books. That is the 92nd highest figure of the 170 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Deebo Samuel Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 125.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Alvin Kamara: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 173.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Deebo Samuel Sr. has been on the field for 50 percent of SF snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 3.3 air yards.

In Week 1 against LAR he carried 1 time for 12 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 48 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 2 against MIA he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

Through Week 2, Alvin Kamara has been on the field for 29 percent of NO snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against BAL he carried 9 times for 15 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

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

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

0.3 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.