Should I start Jahmyr Gibbs or Alvin Kamara in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jahmyr Gibbs, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 1; 2QB: ADP 1.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Alvin Kamara, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jahmyr Gibbs is 8.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.

Alvin Kamara's market-based projection is 8.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 160 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Jahmyr Gibbs has been on the field for 77 percent of DET snaps, taken 82 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 13 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 1.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 20 times for 99 yards, caught 7 of 8 targets for 65 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 4 against CAR he carried 15 times for 46 yards, caught 4 of 7 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against ARI he carried 25 times for 151 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 56 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 6, Alvin Kamara has been on the field for 32 percent of NO snaps, taken 28 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 2 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 0.3 air yards.

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.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs played 17 games and scored 366.9 PPR points, 21.6 a game, finishing RB3.

He carried 243 times for 1223 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 77 of 94 targets for 616 more yards.

That came to 14.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 4-5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 67 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.

Jahmyr Gibbs was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs scored 21.6 PPR points a game and Alvin Kamara 9.2, 12.4 a game between them.

Jahmyr Gibbs finished RB3 that year and Alvin Kamara RB46.

Jahmyr Gibbs had 112 more carries than Alvin Kamara, 243 to 131.

Jahmyr Gibbs had 44 more catches than Alvin Kamara, 77 to 33.

This season Jahmyr Gibbs holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 32 percent.

This season Jahmyr Gibbs holds the bigger share of the carries, 82 percent against 28 percent.

Byes and availability

Jahmyr Gibbs is off in Week 6 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

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