Kenneth Walker or Jeremiyah Love: who to draft first

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Kenneth Walker at 19.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 4th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.

The player markets price Jeremiyah Love at 10.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 86th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenneth Walker: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 3rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes half PPR: ADP 1; standard: ADP 6; 2QB: ADP 33.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jeremiyah Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 10; 2QB: ADP 47.

This season through Week 1

Through Week 1, Kenneth Walker has been on the field for 68 percent of KC snaps, taken 66 percent of the carries, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 44 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 2 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against DEN he carried 23 times for 173 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 18 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 1, Jeremiyah Love has been on the field for 43 percent of ARI snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 1 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 1 against LAC he carried 11 times for 41 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Jeremiyah Love is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Kenneth Walker holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 43 percent.

This season Kenneth Walker holds the bigger share of the carries, 66 percent against 35 percent.

Byes and availability

Kenneth Walker is off in Week 5 and Jeremiyah Love in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

9.3 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.