Should I start Kimani Vidal or Jaylen Wright in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 6:51 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Week 9 verdict
Start Kimani Vidal over Jaylen Wright
- 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
- 3.8
- recent weeks avg
- DET D vs RB
- 19.8
- 10th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 13%
- Through Week 8
- Target share
- 1%
- Through Week 8
Start Kimani Vidal: 38 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jaylen Wright's 17 percent of the snaps and 19 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.
Parlae may earn a commission from price links.
Your next move
More fantasy football tools and rankings, all built from the same board.
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 · MIA · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Overall rank
- not on the board
Make this call for your own roster
Sync your league and My Team sets this week's lineup for your actual roster, spot by spot. Free, no account.
Or get it by email
Tuesday 7am ET: one email with what moved on the board and who is worth a claim.
Free. One a week, one tap to stop.
The gap
- Board size297 draftable players
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 Jaylen Wright 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 Jaylen Wright, 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, Jaylen Wright has been on the field for 13 percent of MIA snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.
In Week 5 against CIN he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 8 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against NE he carried 2 times for 5 yards, 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 Jaylen Wright played 10 games and scored 48.2 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB70.
He carried 70 times for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 9 targets for 44 more yards.
That came to 7.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kimani Vidal was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Kimani Vidal scored 9.1 PPR points a game and Jaylen Wright 4.8, 4.2 a game between them.
Kimani Vidal finished RB42 that year and Jaylen Wright RB70.
Kimani Vidal had 85 more carries than Jaylen Wright, 155 to 70.
Kimani Vidal had 11 more catches than Jaylen Wright, 16 to 5.
This season Kimani Vidal holds the bigger snap share, 27 percent against 13 percent.
This season Kimani Vidal holds the bigger share of the carries, 15 percent against 14 percent.
Byes and availability
Kimani Vidal is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Jaylen Wright.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
- Is Kimani Vidal playing Week 9?
- Is Jaylen Wright playing Week 9?
- Chargers depth chart
- Dolphins depth chart
- Week 9 RB rankings
- Week 9 fantasy rankings
- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
- Week 9 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 9
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 9 kicker rankings
- Week 9 defense rankings
