Tyler Badie or Kimani Vidal: who should I start in Week 6?
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.
Week 6 verdict
Start Tyler Badie over Kimani Vidal
- Market projects
- 4.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 18%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 6%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 4.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 25%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 6%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, 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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RB42 · DEN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 136
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
RB45 · LAC · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 140
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 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 market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Badie: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kimani Vidal: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Tyler Badie is 4.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 40 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 Kimani Vidal is 4.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Tyler Badie's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Tyler Badie has been on the field for 18 percent of DEN snaps, taken 5 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 34 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against SF he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Kimani Vidal has been on the field for 25 percent of LAC snaps, taken 10 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 44 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against BUF he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 14 yards and did not score.
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.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tyler Badie played 16 games and scored 35.4 PPR points, 2.2 a game, finishing RB77.
He carried 8 times for 23 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 19 of 31 targets for 141 more yards.
That came to 0-1 carries a game at 2.9 yards a carry and 1.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 18 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Tyler Badie was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Kimani Vidal scored 9.1 PPR points a game and Tyler Badie 2.2, 6.9 a game between them.
Tyler Badie finished RB77 that year and Kimani Vidal RB42.
Kimani Vidal had 147 more carries than Tyler Badie, 155 to 8.
Tyler Badie had 3 more catches than Kimani Vidal, 19 to 16.
This season Kimani Vidal holds the bigger snap share, 25 percent against 18 percent.
This season Kimani Vidal holds the bigger share of the carries, 10 percent against 5 percent.
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