Kimani Vidal or Jalen Brooks: 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 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Brooks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 142nd 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.

Jalen Brooks's market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 133rd highest figure of the 180 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, Jalen Brooks has been on the field for 15 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 14.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against SF he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 2 of 7 targets for 16 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 Jalen Brooks played 6 games and scored 6.1 PPR points, 1.0 a game.

He caught 3 of 6 targets for 51 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 1.0 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 17.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 32 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kimani Vidal was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kimani Vidal scored 9.1 PPR points a game and Jalen Brooks 1.0, 8.1 a game between them.

Kimani Vidal is a running back and Jalen Brooks a wide receiver, 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.