Start Alvin Kamara or Jadarian Price? Week 10

Our Week 10 call

Start Jadarian Price over Alvin Kamara in Week 10.

Market-based projections have Jadarian Price at 7.9 points and Alvin Kamara at 9.6, a gap of 1.7. Jadarian Price still gets the call because it also weighs where drafters take each player, ADP 70 against 164, and that outweighs a gap this size. No player market is posted for Jadarian Price this week yet, so his 7.9 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 8 and 9 (5.2 and 10.7); the call is rebuilt when his market posts. No player market is posted for Alvin Kamara this week yet, so his 9.6 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 7 and 9 (7.1 and 12.1); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 10 player market is posted for Alvin Kamara yet. His market-based projections were 7.1 and 12.1 points in Weeks 7 and 9, an average of 9.6, which stands in until his Week 10 market posts.

The market-based projection for Alvin Kamara is 0-1 touchdowns (8 market sources).

No Week 10 player market is posted for Jadarian Price yet. His market-based projections were 5.2 and 10.7 points in Weeks 8 and 9, an average of 7.9, which stands in until his Week 10 market posts.

That puts Alvin Kamara 1.7 points ahead of Jadarian Price on these projections.

Week 10 matchups

Alvin Kamara and NO host CAR on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

CAR allowed 28.3 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 7 games, the most in the league.

Running backs ran for 116 yards and 1.4 touchdowns a game against CAR and caught passes for 28 more yards.

Jadarian Price and SEA visit LV on Sunday at 4:05 PM ET.

LV allowed 25.3 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 8 games, the 6th most in the league.

Running backs ran for 130 yards and a touchdown a game against LV and caught passes for 34 more yards.

By points allowed to the position, Alvin Kamara has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Alvin Kamara is not on the injury report.

Jadarian Price is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 10

Through Week 9, Alvin Kamara played 37 percent of NO snaps, took 27 percent of the carries, drew 13 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

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.

Alvin Kamara, Week 7 against PIT: 32 of 57 snaps, 6 carries for 5 yards, 7 targets and 7 catches for 57 yards.

Alvin Kamara, Week 9 against CLE: 37 of 75 snaps, 6 carries for 32 yards, 4 targets and 3 catches for 17 yards.

Through Week 9, Jadarian Price played 38 percent of SEA snaps, took 37 percent of the carries, drew 10 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

Jadarian Price, Week 2 against ARI: 24 of 70 snaps, 13 carries for 52 yards, 2 targets and 1 catch for 8 yards.

Jadarian Price, Week 3 against WAS: 19 of 67 snaps, 5 carries for 15 yards, 3 targets and 1 catch for 7 yards.

Jadarian Price, Week 8 against CHI: 30 of 63 snaps, 10 carries for 29 yards, 4 targets and 2 catches for 8 yards.

Jadarian Price, Week 9 against ARI: 24 of 67 snaps, 9 carries for 24 yards, 4 targets and 4 catches for 54 yards.

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 10 calls

• Start Aaron Jones Sr. over Alvin Kamara.
• Start Bhayshul Tuten over Alvin Kamara.
• Start Blake Corum over Alvin Kamara.
• Start Jadarian Price over Aaron Jones Sr..
• Start Jadarian Price over Austin Ekeler.
• Start Jadarian Price over Blake Corum.