Demond Claiborne or Kenneth Walker: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Demond Claiborne: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 239th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenneth Walker: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 255th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes half PPR: ADP 1; standard: ADP 6; 2QB: ADP 17.

What the player markets price

The market has Demond Claiborne at 1.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 16 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

No season market is posted for Kenneth Walker, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Demond Claiborne has been on the field for 7 percent of MIN snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 32 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 1 target have come 7.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against CHI he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against TB he carried 3 times for 1 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against MIA he carried 3 times for 12 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Kenneth Walker has been on the field for 75 percent of KC snaps, taken 76 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 56 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 10 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against IND he carried 24 times for 117 yards, caught 6 of 10 targets for 61 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

Demond Claiborne is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Kenneth Walker played 17 games and scored 191.9 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB22.

He carried 221 times for 1027 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 31 of 36 targets for 282 more yards.

That came to 13.0 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 1.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Kenneth Walker holds the bigger snap share, 75 percent against 7 percent.

This season Kenneth Walker holds the bigger share of the carries, 76 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Kenneth Walker is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Demond Claiborne.