Should I start Kenneth Walker or Amon-Ra St. Brown in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenneth Walker, and the board ranks him 4th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes half PPR: ADP 1; standard: ADP 6; 2QB: ADP 17.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Amon-Ra St. Brown, and the board ranks him 5th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 11.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kenneth Walker is 21.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Amon-Ra St. Brown's market-based projection is 20.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 2nd highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Kenneth Walker has been on the field for 75 percent of KC snaps, taken 76 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 58 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 13 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against MIA he carried 18 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 3 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 4 against LV he carried 22 times for 177 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against LAC he carried 19 times for 128 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 11 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 5, Amon-Ra St. Brown has been on the field for 88 percent of DET snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 5 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 57 targets have averaged 8.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYJ he caught 4 of 8 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CAR he caught 8 of 11 targets for 75 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 6 of 11 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kenneth Walker played 17 games and scored 191.9 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB22.

He carried 221 times for 1027 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 31 of 36 targets for 282 more yards.

That came to 13.0 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 1.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Amon-Ra St. Brown played 17 games and scored 324.0 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing WR3.

He caught 117 of 172 targets for 1401 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 34 red zone targets.

That came to 10.1 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Amon-Ra St. Brown scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Kenneth Walker 11.3, 7.8 a game between them.

Kenneth Walker finished RB22 and Amon-Ra St. Brown WR3, which are two different ladders.

Kenneth Walker is a running back and Amon-Ra St. Brown a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kenneth Walker is off in Week 5 and Amon-Ra St. Brown in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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