Keaton Mitchell or Mike Washington Jr.: who should I start?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 10:41 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Mike Washington Jr., so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB41 · LAC · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 1-12
- Books price
- 6.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB54 · LV · bye 13
- Overall rank
- 209
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 14
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Keaton Mitchell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 170.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Mike Washington Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 209th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 177.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Keaton Mitchell at 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 books. That is the 161st highest figure of the 183 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Mike Washington Jr., so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Keaton Mitchell has been on the field for 31 percent of LAC snaps, taken 19 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 6 third down targets and seen 0 of its 1 two minute target.
In Week 1 against ARI he carried 4 times for 9 yards and did not score.
Through Week 1, Mike Washington Jr. has been on the field for 19 percent of LV snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 8 third down targets and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
In Week 1 against MIA he carried 7 times for 41 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Keaton Mitchell played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB67.
He carried 59 times for 341 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 9 of 12 targets for 63 more yards.
That came to 4.5 carries a game at 5.8 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.
He was on the field for 17 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Mike Washington Jr. is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Keaton Mitchell holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 19 percent.
This season Mike Washington Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 21 percent against 19 percent.
Byes and availability
Keaton Mitchell is off in Week 7 and Mike Washington Jr. in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Mike Washington Jr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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