Kimani Vidal or CJ Donaldson: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB45 · LAC · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 140
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
RB47 · NO · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 142
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
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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 market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kimani Vidal: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on CJ Donaldson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Kimani Vidal is 4.4 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.
The market-based projection for CJ Donaldson is 4.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 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 5
Through Week 5, Kimani Vidal has been on the field for 25 percent of LAC snaps, taken 10 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 44 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against BUF he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against SEA he carried 5 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against DEN he carried 8 times for 57 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -1 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 5, CJ Donaldson has been on the field for 27 percent of NO snaps, taken 10 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 31 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 2.4 air yards.
In Week 3 against LV he carried 1 time for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against ATL he carried 3 times for 18 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against MIN he carried 4 times for 13 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
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.
CJ Donaldson is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season CJ Donaldson holds the bigger snap share, 27 percent against 25 percent.
Their share of the carries this season is the same, 10 percent each.
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