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Should I start Justice Hill or Kenneth Walker in Week 8?

Updated Nov 3, 12:11 AM ET.

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Start Kenneth Walker: 74 percent of the snaps and 79 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Justice Hill's 45 percent of the snaps and 8 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.

Should I drop Justice Hill for Kenneth Walker?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Kenneth Walker projects 174 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (19.3 a game over 9 games), Justice Hill 36 (4.5 a game over 8 games). Justice Hill is listed questionable.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB15 · BAL · bye 13

2026 vs rush yds line 4-4

Market-based projection
6.8 pts a game

RB17 · KC · bye 5

2026 vs carries line 5-2

Market-based projection
19.0 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
56

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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 Justice Hill, and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenneth Walker, and the board ranks him 56th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Justice Hill's market-based projection is 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 26th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kenneth Walker is 6.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Justice Hill has been on the field for 43 percent of BAL snaps, taken 11 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have come 1.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against CLE he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he carried 3 times for 15 yards, caught 4 of 8 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Justice Hill played 10 games and scored 65.2 PPR points, 6.5 a game, finishing RB60.

He carried 18 times for 93 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 21 of 27 targets for 169 more yards.

That came to 1.8 carries a game at 5.2 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 37 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

The season feed carries no line for Kenneth Walker in the last completed season.

Head to head

This season Kenneth Walker holds the bigger snap share, 75 percent against 43 percent.

This season Kenneth Walker holds the bigger share of the carries, 76 percent against 11 percent.

Byes and availability

Justice Hill is off in Week 13 and Kenneth Walker in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

Justice Hill is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Justice Hill for Kenneth Walker?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Kenneth Walker projects 174 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (19.3 a game over 9 games), Justice Hill 36 (4.5 a game over 8 games). Justice Hill is listed questionable.

  • Should I drop Kenneth Walker for Justice Hill?

    No. Keep Kenneth Walker: he projects 174 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (19.3 a game over 9 games), Justice Hill 36 (4.5 a game over 8 games). Justice Hill is listed questionable.

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