Should I start Caleb Douglas or Kimani Vidal in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 12:16 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Caleb Douglas: 80 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kimani Vidal's 41 percent of the snaps and 28 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR36 · MIA · bye 6
- Market-based projection
- 8.4 pts a game
RB30 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 2-5
- Overall rank
- 90
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Douglas, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kimani Vidal, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Caleb Douglas's market-based projection is 8.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 96th highest figure of the 223 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Kimani Vidal is 5.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 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.
Kimani Vidal's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Caleb Douglas has been on the field for 82 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 14 two minute targets.
His 19 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.
In Week 2 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against NYJ he caught 2 of 3 targets for 70 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 8 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 43 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Kimani Vidal has been on the field for 29 percent of LAC snaps, taken 15 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 14 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.
In Week 5 against DEN he carried 8 times for 57 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -1 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
Caleb Douglas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Side by side
Caleb Douglas is a wide receiver and Kimani Vidal a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Caleb Douglas is off in Week 6 and Kimani Vidal in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
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.
Both players in full
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