Kimani Vidal or Gunnar Helm: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

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.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Gunnar Helm: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 151st 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.

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 5.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 132nd highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based 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, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 77 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 4.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYG he caught 2 of 4 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

In 2025 Gunnar Helm played 16 games and scored 91.7 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE31.

He caught 44 of 55 targets for 357 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 8.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Gunnar Helm was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kimani Vidal scored 9.1 PPR points a game and Gunnar Helm 5.7, 3.3 a game between them.

Kimani Vidal finished RB42 and Gunnar Helm TE31, which are two different ladders.

Kimani Vidal is a running back and Gunnar Helm a tight end, 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.