Should I start Alvin Kamara or Ryan Flournoy in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Alvin Kamara's market-based projection is 8.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 104th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Ryan Flournoy's market-based projection is 7.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 105th 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 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ryan Flournoy: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 105th 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, Ryan Flournoy has been on the field for 71 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 1 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 6.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against BAL he caught 2 of 8 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against HOU he caught 4 of 5 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 3 of 4 targets for 90 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 Ryan Flournoy played 16 games and scored 114.0 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing WR57.

He caught 40 of 56 targets for 475 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3-4 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ryan Flournoy was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Alvin Kamara scored 9.2 PPR points a game and Ryan Flournoy 7.1, 2.0 a game between them.

Alvin Kamara finished RB46 and Ryan Flournoy WR57, which are two different ladders.

Alvin Kamara is a running back and Ryan Flournoy 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 Ryan Flournoy 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.