Should I start Jahan Dotson or Kenneth Walker in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jahan Dotson, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenneth Walker, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Jahan Dotson's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 40th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kenneth Walker is 6.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a 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 8, Jahan Dotson has been on the field for 68 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 16.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 3 of 5 targets for 87 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against TB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Kenneth Walker has been on the field for 75 percent of KC snaps, taken 76 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 58 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 13 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 6 against LAC he carried 19 times for 128 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 11 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jahan Dotson played 17 games and scored 50.2 PPR points, 3.0 a game, finishing WR109.

He caught 18 of 36 targets for 262 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

The season feed carries no line for Kenneth Walker in the last completed season.

Side by side

Jahan Dotson is a wide receiver and Kenneth Walker a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jahan Dotson is off in Week 11 and Kenneth Walker in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Kenneth Walker has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.