Kenneth Walker or Zach Charbonnet: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenneth Walker: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes half PPR: ADP 1; standard: ADP 6; 2QB: ADP 17.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Zach Charbonnet: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 237th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

No season market is posted for Kenneth Walker, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Zach Charbonnet, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Kenneth Walker has been on the field for 75 percent of KC snaps, taken 76 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 56 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 10 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against IND he carried 24 times for 117 yards, caught 6 of 10 targets for 61 yards and did not score.

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.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kenneth Walker played 17 games and scored 191.9 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB22.

He carried 221 times for 1027 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 31 of 36 targets for 282 more yards.

That came to 13.0 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 1.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11.5 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kenneth Walker was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 they scored the same 11.3 PPR points a game.

Kenneth Walker finished RB22 that year and Zach Charbonnet RB24.

Kenneth Walker had 37 more carries than Zach Charbonnet, 221 to 184.

Kenneth Walker had 11 more catches than Zach Charbonnet, 31 to 20.

Byes and availability

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

Zach Charbonnet is listed as pup on the injury report.