Should I start Kenneth Walker or Kyren Williams in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

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.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyren Williams, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kenneth Walker is 6.3 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.

The market-based projection for Kyren Williams is 5.1 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 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.

Through Week 8, Kyren Williams has been on the field for 68 percent of LAR snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 8 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 39 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

In Week 6 against ARI he carried 10 times for 50 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against LV he carried 16 times for 99 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against LAC he carried 16 times for 56 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Kyren Williams played 17 games and scored 263.3 PPR points, 15.5 a game, finishing RB9.

He carried 259 times for 1252 yards and 10 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 50 targets for 281 more yards.

That came to 15.2 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Kenneth Walker holds the bigger snap share, 75 percent against 68 percent.

This season Kenneth Walker holds the bigger share of the carries, 76 percent against 55 percent.

Byes and availability

Kenneth Walker is off in Week 5 and Kyren Williams in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.