Should I start Jaleel McLaughlin or Alvin Kamara in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Jaleel McLaughlin's market-based projection is 9.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 89th highest figure of the 193 players with a market-based 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 98th highest figure of the 193 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaleel McLaughlin, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Alvin Kamara, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jaleel McLaughlin has been on the field for 10 percent of CLE snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 1 time for 28 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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 Jaleel McLaughlin played 8 games and scored 31.4 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing RB82.

He carried 37 times for 187 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 4 of 6 targets for 27 more yards.

That came to 4.6 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 15 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.

Alvin Kamara was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Alvin Kamara scored 9.2 PPR points a game and Jaleel McLaughlin 3.9, 5.2 a game between them.

Jaleel McLaughlin finished RB82 that year and Alvin Kamara RB46.

Alvin Kamara had 94 more carries than Jaleel McLaughlin, 131 to 37.

Alvin Kamara had 29 more catches than Jaleel McLaughlin, 33 to 4.

This season Alvin Kamara holds the bigger snap share, 32 percent against 10 percent.

This season Alvin Kamara holds the bigger share of the carries, 31 percent against 2 percent.

Byes and availability

Alvin Kamara is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Jaleel McLaughlin.

Alvin Kamara is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

1.5 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.