Should I start Jonathon Brooks or Kimani Vidal in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 12:36 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kimani Vidal: 38 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jonathon Brooks's 25 percent of the snaps and 21 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.
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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.
RB · CAR · bye 5
- Overall rank
- 273
RB · LAC · on bye this week
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- Market-based projection
- 5.1 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 275
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The gap
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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 Jonathon Brooks, and the board ranks him 273rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kimani Vidal, and the board ranks him 275th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jonathon Brooks, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Kimani Vidal, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 2, Jonathon Brooks has been on the field for 25 percent of CAR snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against CHI he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 48 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against ATL he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Kimani Vidal has been on the field for 27 percent of LAC snaps, taken 12 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 12 targets have averaged 0.4 air yards.
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.
In Week 6 against KC he carried 7 times for 21 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Jonathon Brooks in the last completed season.
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.
Head to head
This season Kimani Vidal holds the bigger snap share, 27 percent against 25 percent.
This season Jonathon Brooks holds the bigger share of the carries, 21 percent against 12 percent.
Byes and availability
Jonathon Brooks is off in Week 5 and Kimani Vidal in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jonathon Brooks is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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