Should I start Kenneth Walker or Malik Willis in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenneth Walker, and the board ranks him 73rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Willis, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 38.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kenneth Walker is 7.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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.

Malik Willis's market-based projection is 18.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 11th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based 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, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 225 times and thrown 9.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 225 dropbacks and scrambled 22 times.

In Week 5 against CIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 137 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 8 times for 74 yards.

In Week 7 against NYJ he completed 14 of 21 passes for 208 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 39 yards.

In Week 8 against NE he completed 21 of 32 passes for 211 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Malik Willis played 4 games and scored 51.2 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing QB45.

He threw for 422 yards on 35 attempts with 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 8.8 attempts a game at 12.1 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Kenneth Walker is a running back and Malik Willis a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kenneth Walker is off in Week 5 and Malik Willis in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.