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Should I start Kenneth Walker or Dalton Kincaid in Week 9?

Updated Nov 4, 8:16 AM ET.

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Start Kenneth Walker: 74 percent of the snaps and 79 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Dalton Kincaid's 66 percent of the snaps and 20 percent of the targets. 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.

Should I drop Dalton Kincaid for Kenneth Walker?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Kenneth Walker projects 173 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (19.2 a game over 9 games), Dalton Kincaid 105 (11.7 a game over 9 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB26 · KC · bye 5

2026 vs carries line 5-2

Market-based projection
22.6 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
76

TE8 · BUF · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 2-5

Market-based projection
9.9 pts a game

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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 Kenneth Walker, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dalton Kincaid, and the board ranks him 77th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kenneth Walker is 6.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Dalton Kincaid's market-based projection is 9.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 75th highest figure of the 220 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 8, Dalton Kincaid has been on the field for 66 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 35 targets have averaged 10.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 7 of 8 targets for 38 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BAL he caught 4 of 6 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Kenneth Walker in the last completed season.

In 2025 Dalton Kincaid played 12 games and scored 126.1 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE20.

He caught 39 of 49 targets for 571 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 4.1 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 40 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Kenneth Walker is a running back and Dalton Kincaid a tight end, 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 Dalton Kincaid in Week 7, 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.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Dalton Kincaid for Kenneth Walker?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Kenneth Walker projects 173 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (19.2 a game over 9 games), Dalton Kincaid 105 (11.7 a game over 9 games).

  • Should I drop Kenneth Walker for Dalton Kincaid?

    No. Keep Kenneth Walker: he projects 173 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (19.2 a game over 9 games), Dalton Kincaid 105 (11.7 a game over 9 games).

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