Should I start Alvin Kamara or Kyle Pitts Sr. in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 3:21 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Kyle Pitts Sr.: 65 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Alvin Kamara's 31 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Alvin Kamara for Kyle Pitts Sr.?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Kyle Pitts Sr. projects 70 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.0 a game over 10 games), Alvin Kamara 62 (6.2 a game over 10 games). Alvin Kamara is listed questionable.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Alvin Kamara

RB13 · NO · bye 8

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Market-based projection: 7.2 pts a game

Kyle Pitts Sr.

TE8 · ATL · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection: 7.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 46

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Alvin Kamara, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Pitts Sr., and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Alvin Kamara's market-based projection is 7.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 46th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Kyle Pitts Sr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 6

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 6, Kyle Pitts Sr. has been on the field for 59 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against NO he caught 3 of 3 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 5 of 7 targets for 60 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Kyle Pitts Sr. played 17 games and scored 210.8 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing TE2.

He caught 88 of 118 targets for 928 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kyle Pitts Sr. was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. scored 12.4 PPR points a game and Alvin Kamara 9.2, 3.2 a game between them.

Alvin Kamara finished RB46 and Kyle Pitts Sr. TE2, which are two different ladders.

Alvin Kamara is a running back and Kyle Pitts Sr. a tight end, 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 Kyle Pitts Sr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Alvin Kamara is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Kyle Pitts Sr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Alvin Kamara for Kyle Pitts Sr.?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Kyle Pitts Sr. projects 70 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.0 a game over 10 games), Alvin Kamara 62 (6.2 a game over 10 games). Alvin Kamara is listed questionable.
Should I drop Kyle Pitts Sr. for Alvin Kamara?
No. Keep Kyle Pitts Sr.: he projects 70 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.0 a game over 10 games), Alvin Kamara 62 (6.2 a game over 10 games). Alvin Kamara is listed questionable.