Should I start Zach Charbonnet or Alvin Kamara in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 40th 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

Zach Charbonnet's market-based projection is 10.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 67th 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, Zach Charbonnet has taken 32 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 8 against CHI he carried 6 times for 23 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

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 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 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.

Zach Charbonnet was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Alvin Kamara 9.2, 2.2 a game between them.

Zach Charbonnet finished RB24 that year and Alvin Kamara RB46.

Zach Charbonnet had 53 more carries than Alvin Kamara, 184 to 131.

Alvin Kamara had 13 more catches than Zach Charbonnet, 33 to 20.

This season Zach Charbonnet holds the bigger share of the carries, 32 percent against 28 percent.

Byes and availability

Zach Charbonnet is off in Week 11 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.