Alvin Kamara or Kaleb Johnson: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Alvin Kamara over Kaleb Johnson
- Market projects
- 9.8
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 32%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 11%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 7.3
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 27%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 2%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and neither of them has a market-based projection this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB · NO · bye unlisted
2026 vs carries line 2-2
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size202 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Our board does not carry Alvin Kamara at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
Our board does not carry Kaleb Johnson at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Alvin Kamara, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Kaleb Johnson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 5
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.
Through Week 5, Kaleb Johnson has been on the field for 27 percent of GB snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 17 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against ATL he carried 4 times for 6 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TB he carried 8 times for 42 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against CHI he carried 7 times for 26 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 Kaleb Johnson played 10 games and scored 8.8 PPR points, 0.9 a game, finishing RB115.
He carried 28 times for 69 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 more yards.
That came to 2.8 carries a game at 3 yards a carry and 0.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 6 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 Kaleb Johnson 0.9, 8.3 a game between them.
Alvin Kamara finished RB46 that year and Kaleb Johnson RB115.
Alvin Kamara had 103 more carries than Kaleb Johnson, 131 to 28.
Alvin Kamara had 32 more catches than Kaleb Johnson, 33 to 1.
This season Alvin Kamara holds the bigger snap share, 32 percent against 27 percent.
This season Kaleb Johnson holds the bigger share of the carries, 37 percent against 31 percent.
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