Ka'imi Fairbairn or Chase McLaughlin: who to draft first
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 10:11 AM ET
The sportsbooks price Ka'imi Fairbairn 0.0 points a game ahead of Chase McLaughlin this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the books' price is the live market on these two.
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K9 · HOU · bye 8
- Books price
- 7.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
K10 · TB · bye 10
- Books price
- 7.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.0 points a game
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Ka'imi Fairbairn at 7.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 books. That is the 136th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.
The player markets price Chase McLaughlin at 7.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 books. That is the 137th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Ka'imi Fairbairn: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 176th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 144.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Chase McLaughlin: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 177th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 186.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Ka'imi Fairbairn played 15 games and scored 190.0 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing K2.
In 2025 Chase McLaughlin played 17 games and scored 149.0 PPR points, 8.8 a game, finishing K7.
Chase McLaughlin was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Ka'imi Fairbairn scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Chase McLaughlin 8.8, 3.9 a game between them.
Ka'imi Fairbairn finished K2 that year and Chase McLaughlin K7.
Byes and availability
Ka'imi Fairbairn is off in Week 8 and Chase McLaughlin in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
0.0 points a game is the entire case. The books restate 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 price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.
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