Should I start Kimani Vidal or Mike Washington Jr. in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 7:01 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kimani Vidal: 38 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Mike Washington Jr.'s 22 percent of the snaps and 30 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.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB · LAC · on bye this week
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- Market-based projection
- 5.1 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 275
RB · LV · bye 13
- Overall rank
- 276
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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 Kimani Vidal, and the board ranks him 275th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Washington Jr., and the board ranks him 276th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Kimani Vidal, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Mike Washington Jr., 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 6
Through Week 6, Kimani Vidal has been on the field for 27 percent of LAC snaps, taken 12 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 12 targets have averaged 0.4 air yards.
In Week 4 against SEA he carried 5 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against DEN he carried 8 times for 57 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -1 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against KC he carried 7 times for 21 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Mike Washington Jr. has been on the field for 20 percent of LV snaps, taken 23 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 36 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.2 air yards.
In Week 4 against KC he carried 9 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -1 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against NE he carried 1 time for 5 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against BUF he carried 9 times for 43 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Kimani Vidal played 13 games and scored 117.9 PPR points, 9.1 a game, finishing RB42.
He carried 155 times for 643 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 16 of 22 targets for 136 more yards.
That came to 11.9 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 1.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 58 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 Kimani Vidal holds the bigger snap share, 27 percent against 20 percent.
This season Mike Washington Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 23 percent against 12 percent.
Byes and availability
Kimani Vidal is off in Week 7 and Mike Washington Jr. in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
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