Should I start Alvin Kamara or Gunnar Helm in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Alvin Kamara, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Alvin Kamara is 3.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 5.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 103rd highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 9, Alvin Kamara has been on the field for 37 percent of NO snaps, taken 27 percent of the carries, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 2 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.

In Week 6 against NYG he carried 7 times for 34 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against PIT he carried 6 times for 5 yards, caught 7 of 7 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against CLE he carried 6 times for 32 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 75 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

In Week 6 against IND he was not given the ball.

In Week 7 against CLE he caught 3 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CIN he caught 5 of 9 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Gunnar Helm played 16 games and scored 91.7 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE31.

He caught 44 of 55 targets for 357 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 8.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Gunnar Helm was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Alvin Kamara scored 9.2 PPR points a game and Gunnar Helm 5.7, 3.4 a game between them.

Alvin Kamara finished RB46 and Gunnar Helm TE31, which are two different ladders.

Alvin Kamara is a running back and Gunnar Helm a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Alvin Kamara is off in Week 8 and Gunnar Helm in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Alvin Kamara has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.