Should I start Geno Smith or Alvin Kamara in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Geno Smith: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Alvin Kamara: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Geno Smith is 16.1 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Alvin Kamara's market-based projection is 8.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 104th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Geno Smith's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Geno Smith has been on the field for 100 percent of NYJ snaps, dropped back 171 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 171 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 3 against DET he completed 31 of 37 passes for 321 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

In Week 4 against CHI he completed 8 of 15 passes for 119 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 5 against CLE he completed 17 of 30 passes for 182 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 9 yards.

Through Week 5, Alvin Kamara has been on the field for 32 percent of NO snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 2 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 0.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 5 against MIN he carried 3 times for 12 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for -6 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Geno Smith played 15 games and scored 190.9 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing QB23.

He threw for 3025 yards on 448 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 17 interceptions, and ran for 109 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Geno Smith was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Geno Smith scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Alvin Kamara 9.2, 3.6 a game between them.

Geno Smith finished QB23 and Alvin Kamara RB46, which are two different ladders.

Geno Smith is a quarterback 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

Geno Smith is off in Week 13 and Alvin Kamara in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Alvin Kamara is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Geno Smith is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.