Start Alvin Kamara or Tyler Allgeier? Week 1
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Tyler Allgeier over Alvin Kamara
Right: 9.0 to 0.0
- Books imply
- 3.1
- fantasy pts
- LAC D vs RB
- 22.0
- 15th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 59%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 5%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 9.0
- PPR pts
- DET D vs RB
- 25.0
- 12th most to RBs (2026)
- Scored
- 0.0
- PPR pts
Our Week 1 call
Start Tyler Allgeier over Alvin Kamara in Week 1.
Tyler Allgeier is priced by the books at 3.1 projected points. Alvin Kamara has no player market posted for this week, so his side of this call rests on consensus ADP and the news wire only. Drafters take Tyler Allgeier at ADP 173 and Alvin Kamara at 160. Market coverage on Tyler Allgeier is 60 percent of what his position needs, so the market side of this carries proportionally less weight.
What the books imply
No sportsbook posted a player market for Alvin Kamara in Week 1.
Player prop markets imply 3.2 fantasy points for Tyler Allgeier, with 60 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
Week 1 matchups
Alvin Kamara and NO visit DET.
DET allowed 25.0 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 12th most in the league.
Running backs ran for 80 yards and a touchdown against DET and caught passes for 30 more yards.
Tyler Allgeier and ARI visit LAC on Sunday at 4:25 PM ET.
LAC allowed 22.0 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 15th fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 102 yards and a touchdown against LAC and caught passes for 18 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Alvin Kamara has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Alvin Kamara was listed as questionable when the call was made.
Tyler Allgeier was not on the injury report when the call was made.
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.
In 2025, Tyler Allgeier played 17 games for ATL and scored 123.0 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB39.
He ran 143 times for 514 yards and 8 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 96 yards.
He was on the field for 30 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Tyler Allgeier, Week 18 of 2025 against NO: 7 carries for 16 yards, 2 targets and 1 catch for 3 yards, 2.9 PPR points.
Tyler Allgeier, Week 17 of 2025 against LAR: 19 of 53 snaps, 10 carries for 23 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 2.3 PPR points.
Tyler Allgeier, Week 16 of 2025 against ARI: 31 of 77 snaps, 16 carries for 79 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for -6 yards, 8.3 PPR points.
How Week 1 went
Tyler Allgeier scored 9.0 PPR points and Alvin Kamara scored 0.0.
The call was right: Tyler Allgeier outscored Alvin Kamara by 9.0.
Tyler Allgeier finished 5.9 points above the 3.2 the props implied.
Tyler Allgeier, Week 1 against LAC: 44 of 75 snaps, 17 carries for 61 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 9 yards, 9.0 PPR points.
Tyler Allgeier finished as the week's RB29 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 1 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
RB29 · NO · bye 8
2025 vs rush yds line 2-9
- Overall rank
- 57
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
Ranked behind
RB38 · ARI · bye 14
2025 vs rush yds line 8-9
- Overall rank
- 129
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 1, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board72
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 4 and tier 9
- Board size244 draftable players
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