Darnell Washington or Kimani Vidal: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Darnell Washington: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kimani Vidal: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 126th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

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.

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, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 5.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against IND he caught 2 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.

He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 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.

Darnell Washington was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kimani Vidal scored 9.1 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 4.5 a game between them.

Darnell Washington finished TE39 and Kimani Vidal RB42, which are two different ladders.

Darnell Washington is a tight end and Kimani Vidal a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Kimani Vidal is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.