Kenneth Walker or Emanuel Wilson: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 6:56 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Emanuel Wilson over Kenneth Walker
- Market projects
- 12.9
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 42%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 22.3
- fantasy pts
- LAC D vs RB
- 21.7
- 13th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 75%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 16%
- Through Week 4
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Kenneth Walker, 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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RB2 · KC · bye 5
2026 vs carries line 4-0
- Overall rank
- 2
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 2
RB14 · SEA · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 12.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size200 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 market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenneth Walker: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 2nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes half PPR: ADP 1; standard: ADP 6; 2QB: ADP 17.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Emanuel Wilson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Kenneth Walker is 22.1 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.
Emanuel Wilson's market-based projection is 12.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 58th highest figure of the 156 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 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.
Through Week 5, Emanuel Wilson has been on the field for 42 percent of SEA snaps, taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 7 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have come 2.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against WAS he carried 9 times for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LAC he carried 21 times for 81 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 5 against SF he carried 20 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Emanuel Wilson played 17 games and scored 94.5 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing RB49.
He carried 125 times for 496 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 15 of 17 targets for 99 more yards.
That came to 7.4 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.
He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Kenneth Walker scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Emanuel Wilson 5.6, 5.7 a game between them.
Kenneth Walker finished RB22 that year and Emanuel Wilson RB49.
Kenneth Walker had 96 more carries than Emanuel Wilson, 221 to 125.
Kenneth Walker had 16 more catches than Emanuel Wilson, 31 to 15.
This season Kenneth Walker holds the bigger snap share, 75 percent against 42 percent.
This season Kenneth Walker holds the bigger share of the carries, 76 percent against 54 percent.
Byes and availability
Kenneth Walker is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Emanuel Wilson.
What would change the answer
Kenneth Walker is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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