Should I start Austin Ekeler or Kimani Vidal in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kimani Vidal, and the board ranks him 185th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 43rd highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kimani Vidal is 1.4 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.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Austin Ekeler has been on the field for 25 percent of WAS snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he carried 8 times for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAR he carried 8 times for 16 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Kimani Vidal has been on the field for 31 percent of LAC snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 79 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against KC he carried 7 times for 21 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LAR he carried 8 times for 23 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against HOU he carried 7 times for 30 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Austin Ekeler played 2 games and scored 13.1 PPR points, 6.6 a game, finishing RB103.

He carried 14 times for 43 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 7 targets for 38 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 3.1 yards a carry and 2-3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Kimani Vidal played 13 games and scored 117.9 PPR points, 9.1 a game, finishing RB42.

He carried 155 times for 643 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 16 of 22 targets for 136 more yards.

That came to 11.9 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 1.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kimani Vidal was available for 11 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Kimani Vidal scored 9.1 PPR points a game and Austin Ekeler 6.6, 2.5 a game between them.

Austin Ekeler finished RB103 that year and Kimani Vidal RB42.

Kimani Vidal had 141 more carries than Austin Ekeler, 155 to 14.

Kimani Vidal had 11 more catches than Austin Ekeler, 16 to 5.

This season Kimani Vidal holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 25 percent.

This season Austin Ekeler holds the bigger share of the carries, 21 percent against 16 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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