Should I start Kimani Vidal or Josh Jacobs in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kimani Vidal, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 119th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kimani Vidal's market-based projection is 5.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 5 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Josh Jacobs is 5.0 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.

Josh Jacobs's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Kimani Vidal has been on the field for 31 percent of LAC snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 79 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 9 against HOU he carried 7 times for 30 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Josh Jacobs has been on the field for 47 percent of GB snaps, taken 47 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 5 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 2.8 air yards.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 11 times for 36 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CAR he carried 21 times for 39 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 13 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 9 against NE he carried 4 times for 5 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 Josh Jacobs played 15 games and scored 237.1 PPR points, 15.8 a game, finishing RB13.

He carried 234 times for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 44 targets for 282 more yards.

That came to 15.6 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Josh Jacobs was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Kimani Vidal 9.1, 6.7 a game between them.

Kimani Vidal finished RB42 that year and Josh Jacobs RB13.

Josh Jacobs had 79 more carries than Kimani Vidal, 234 to 155.

Josh Jacobs had 20 more catches than Kimani Vidal, 36 to 16.

This season Josh Jacobs holds the bigger snap share, 47 percent against 31 percent.

This season Josh Jacobs holds the bigger share of the carries, 47 percent against 16 percent.

Byes and availability

Kimani Vidal is off in Week 7 and Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Josh Jacobs is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Josh Jacobs has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.