Start Alvin Kamara or Bam Knight? Week 7
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- : Alvin Kamara: Listed Questionable (Back) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Alvin Kamara over Bam Knight
- Market projects
- 7.1
- fantasy pts
- PIT D vs RB
- 20.4
- 15th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 31%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 12%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 7.0
- fantasy pts
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Our Week 7 call
Start Alvin Kamara over Bam Knight in Week 7.
Market-based projections have Alvin Kamara at 7.1 points and Bam Knight at 7.0, a gap of 0.2. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. Bam Knight's number is scaled up from a partial market: not every stat the position needs is posted yet, so the rest is estimated from what is.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 7.1 fantasy points for Alvin Kamara, with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Alvin Kamara is 17 rushing yards, 13 receiving yards, 2-3 receptions and 0.3 touchdowns (10, 12, 12 and 13 market sources).
Player markets imply 7.0 fantasy points for Bam Knight, with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Bam Knight is 31 rushing yards and 0.2 touchdowns (5 and 13 market sources).
That puts Alvin Kamara 0.2 points ahead of Bam Knight on the market projections.
Week 7 matchups
Alvin Kamara and NO host PIT on Sunday at 9:30 AM ET.
PIT allowed 20.5 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 6 games, the 15th fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 86 yards and 0-1 touchdowns a game against PIT and caught passes for 35 more yards.
Injury status
Alvin Kamara is listed as questionable with a back injury.
Bam Knight is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 7
Through Week 6, Alvin Kamara played 31 percent of NO snaps, took 28 percent of the carries, drew 12 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
Alvin Kamara, Week 3 against LV: 24 of 74 snaps, 9 carries for 36 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 5 yards.
Alvin Kamara, Week 4 against ATL: 28 of 74 snaps, 7 carries for 23 yards, 7 targets and 5 catches for 35 yards, 2 touchdowns.
Alvin Kamara, Week 5 against MIN: 12 of 45 snaps, 3 carries for 12 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for -6 yards.
Alvin Kamara, Week 6 against NYG: 19 of 72 snaps, 7 carries for 34 yards, 4 targets and 2 catches for 35 yards, 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Alvin Kamara played 11 games for NO and scored 100.7 PPR points, 9.2 a game, finishing RB46.
He ran 131 times for 471 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 33 of 39 targets for 186 yards.
He was on the field for 63 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 7 calls
Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 7, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.