Start Ashton Jeanty or Kenneth Walker? Week 1
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Kenneth Walker over Ashton Jeanty
Right: 34.1 to 32.7- Books imply
- 12.8
- fantasy pts
- DEN D vs RB
- 42.9
- 2nd most to RBs (2026)
- Scored
- 34.1
- PPR pts
- MIA D vs RB
- 36.9
- 4th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 74%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 21%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 32.7
- PPR pts
Our Week 1 call
Start Kenneth Walker over Ashton Jeanty in Week 1.
Kenneth Walker is priced by the books at 12.8 projected points. Ashton Jeanty 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 Kenneth Walker at ADP 24 and Ashton Jeanty at 21.
What the books imply
No sportsbook posted a player market for Ashton Jeanty in Week 1.
Player prop markets imply 12.8 fantasy points for Kenneth Walker, with 80 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
Week 1 matchups
Ashton Jeanty and LV host MIA.
MIA allowed 36.9 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 4th most in the league.
Running backs ran for 144 yards and no touchdowns against MIA and caught passes for 45 more yards.
Kenneth Walker and KC host DEN on Monday at 8:15 PM ET.
DEN allowed 42.9 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 2nd most in the league.
Running backs ran for 197 yards and a touchdown against DEN and caught passes for 62 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Kenneth Walker has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Ashton Jeanty was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Kenneth Walker was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Ashton Jeanty played 17 games for LV and scored 245.1 PPR points, 14.4 a game, finishing RB11.
He ran 266 times for 975 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 55 of 73 targets for 346 yards.
He was on the field for 76 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Ashton Jeanty, Week 18 of 2025 against KC: 26 carries for 87 yards, 5 targets and 3 catches for 7 yards, 12.4 PPR points.
Ashton Jeanty, Week 17 of 2025 against NYG: 48 of 59 snaps, 16 carries for 60 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 13 yards, 9.3 PPR points.
Ashton Jeanty, Week 16 of 2025 against HOU: 50 of 54 snaps, 24 carries for 128 yards, 2 targets and 1 catch for 60 yards, 2 touchdowns, 31.8 PPR points.
How Week 1 went
Kenneth Walker scored 34.1 PPR points and Ashton Jeanty scored 32.7.
The call was right: Kenneth Walker outscored Ashton Jeanty by 1.4.
Kenneth Walker finished 21.3 points above the 12.8 the props implied.
Kenneth Walker, Week 1 against DEN: 47 of 69 snaps, 23 carries for 173 yards, 6 targets and 3 catches for 18 yards, 2 touchdowns, 34.1 PPR points.
Kenneth Walker finished as the week's RB2 in PPR scoring.
Ashton Jeanty, Week 1 against MIA: 50 of 68 snaps, 23 carries for 102 yards, 6 targets and 6 catches for 45 yards, 2 touchdowns, 32.7 PPR points.
Ashton Jeanty finished as the week's RB4 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 1 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
RB3 · LV · bye 13
2025 vs rec yds line 6-11
- Overall rank
- 4
- Draft pick
- ADP 4
- Tier
- 2
Ranked behind
RB7 · KC · bye 5
2025 vs rush yds line 8-9
- Overall rank
- 15
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
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 board11
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 2 and tier 4
- Board size244 draftable players
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