Should I start Alvin Kamara or Kendrick Bourne in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Alvin Kamara's market-based projection is 8.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 96th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Kendrick Bourne's market-based projection is 8.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 99th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Alvin Kamara: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kendrick Bourne: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, Kendrick Bourne has been on the field for 59 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 5 of 8 targets for 70 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 Kendrick Bourne played 16 games and scored 92.1 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR68.

He caught 37 of 53 targets for 551 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kendrick Bourne was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Alvin Kamara scored 9.2 PPR points a game and Kendrick Bourne 5.8, 3.4 a game between them.

Alvin Kamara finished RB46 and Kendrick Bourne WR68, which are two different ladders.

Alvin Kamara is a running back and Kendrick Bourne a wide receiver, 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 Kendrick Bourne in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

Alvin Kamara is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.2 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.