Should I start Alvin Kamara or Jaylen Wright in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Alvin Kamara, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Wright, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Alvin Kamara's market-based projection is 7.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 106th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jaylen Wright is 4.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Alvin Kamara has been on the field for 31 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.

Through Week 5, Jaylen Wright has been on the field for 13 percent of MIA snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.

In Week 2 against SF he carried 2 times for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 5 times for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 6 times for 11 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 Jaylen Wright played 10 games and scored 48.2 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB70.

He carried 70 times for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 9 targets for 44 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Alvin Kamara was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Alvin Kamara scored 9.2 PPR points a game and Jaylen Wright 4.8, 4.3 a game between them.

Alvin Kamara finished RB46 that year and Jaylen Wright RB70.

Alvin Kamara had 61 more carries than Jaylen Wright, 131 to 70.

Alvin Kamara had 28 more catches than Jaylen Wright, 33 to 5.

This season Alvin Kamara holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 13 percent.

This season Alvin Kamara holds the bigger share of the carries, 28 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Alvin Kamara is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Jaylen Wright.

Alvin Kamara is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Jaylen Wright is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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