Should I start Rachaad White or Alvin Kamara in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rachaad White, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Alvin Kamara, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Rachaad White's market-based projection is 12.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Alvin Kamara is 2.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Rachaad White has been on the field for 52 percent of WAS snaps, taken 28 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 3 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against NYG he carried 7 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 7 times for 27 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against PHI he carried 11 times for 55 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, Alvin Kamara has been on the field for 35 percent of NO snaps, taken 28 percent of the carries, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 2 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 0.4 air yards.

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.

In Week 7 against PIT he carried 6 times for 5 yards, caught 7 of 7 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rachaad White played 17 games and scored 143.0 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing RB32.

He carried 132 times for 572 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 40 of 45 targets for 218 more yards.

That came to 7.8 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 51 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.

Rachaad White was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Alvin Kamara scored 9.2 PPR points a game and Rachaad White 8.4, 0.7 a game between them.

Rachaad White finished RB32 that year and Alvin Kamara RB46.

Rachaad White had 1 more carries than Alvin Kamara, 132 to 131.

Rachaad White had 7 more catches than Alvin Kamara, 40 to 33.

This season Rachaad White holds the bigger snap share, 52 percent against 35 percent.

Their share of the carries this season is the same, 28 percent each.

Byes and availability

Rachaad White is off in Week 7 and Alvin Kamara in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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