Should I start Kenneth Walker or Jaylen Warren in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenneth Walker, and the board ranks him 4th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes half PPR: ADP 1; standard: ADP 6; 2QB: ADP 17.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Warren, and the board ranks him 8th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kenneth Walker is 21.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 8 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.

Jaylen Warren's market-based projection is 17.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 7th highest figure of the 181 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 through Week 6

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.

Through Week 6, Jaylen Warren has been on the field for 76 percent of PIT snaps, taken 69 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 1 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have come 1.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against CLE he carried 17 times for 93 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against IND he carried 15 times for 101 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 87 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against TB he carried 14 times for 50 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

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 Jaylen Warren played 16 games and scored 217.1 PPR points, 13.6 a game, finishing RB17.

He carried 211 times for 958 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 40 of 45 targets for 333 more yards.

That came to 13.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 2-3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kenneth Walker was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jaylen Warren scored 13.6 PPR points a game and Kenneth Walker 11.3, 2.3 a game between them.

Kenneth Walker finished RB22 that year and Jaylen Warren RB17.

Kenneth Walker had 10 more carries than Jaylen Warren, 221 to 211.

Jaylen Warren had 9 more catches than Kenneth Walker, 40 to 31.

This season Jaylen Warren holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 75 percent.

This season Kenneth Walker holds the bigger share of the carries, 76 percent against 69 percent.

Byes and availability

Kenneth Walker is off in Week 5 and Jaylen Warren in Week 9, 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.