Should I start Kimani Vidal or Isaiah Davis in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 6:26 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Week 9 verdict
Start Kimani Vidal over Isaiah Davis
- Market projects
- 5.5
- recent weeks avg
- HOU D vs RB
- 22.3
- 12th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 27%
- Through Week 8
- Target share
- 7%
- Through Week 8
- Market projects
- 2.8
- recent weeks avg
- KC D vs RB
- 19.5
- 9th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 15%
- Through Week 8
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 8
Start Kimani Vidal: 38 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Isaiah Davis's 16 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the carries. 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.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB48 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 2-5
- Market-based projection
- 5.8 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 194
RB · NYJ · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-8
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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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 Kimani Vidal, and the board ranks him 194th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Isaiah Davis at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Kimani Vidal is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No season market is posted for Isaiah Davis, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Kimani Vidal has been on the field for 27 percent of LAC snaps, taken 15 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 14 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.
In Week 5 against DEN he carried 8 times for 57 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -1 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against KC he carried 7 times for 21 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against LAR he carried 8 times for 23 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Isaiah Davis has been on the field for 15 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have come 4.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 6 against NE he carried 7 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 10 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against MIA he carried 1 time for 5 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 49 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against LV he carried 5 times for 15 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 Isaiah Davis played 16 games and scored 71.2 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing RB59.
He carried 43 times for 236 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 21 of 28 targets for 186 more yards.
That came to 2.7 carries a game at 6 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Isaiah Davis was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Kimani Vidal scored 9.1 PPR points a game and Isaiah Davis 4.5, 4.6 a game between them.
Kimani Vidal finished RB42 that year and Isaiah Davis RB59.
Kimani Vidal had 112 more carries than Isaiah Davis, 155 to 43.
Isaiah Davis had 5 more catches than Kimani Vidal, 21 to 16.
This season Kimani Vidal holds the bigger snap share, 27 percent against 15 percent.
This season Kimani Vidal holds the bigger share of the carries, 15 percent against 13 percent.
Byes and availability
Kimani Vidal is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Isaiah Davis.
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