Start Jeremiyah Love or Kyren Williams? Week 1
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Jeremiyah Love over Kyren Williams
Wrong: 13.0 to 15.5
- LAC D vs RB
- 22.0
- 15th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 43%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 11%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 13.0
- PPR pts
- Books imply
- 5.7
- fantasy pts
- SF D vs RB
- 24.3
- 14th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 64%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 11%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 15.5
- PPR pts
Our Week 1 call
Start Jeremiyah Love over Kyren Williams in Week 1.
Kyren Williams is priced by the books at 5.7 projected points and Jeremiyah Love is not priced at all, so we are leaning on where drafters take them. Drafters take Jeremiyah Love at ADP 28 and Kyren Williams at 33.
What the books imply
No sportsbook posted a player market for Jeremiyah Love in Week 1.
Player prop markets imply 5.7 fantasy points for Kyren Williams, with 40 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
Week 1 matchups
Jeremiyah Love and ARI visit LAC.
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.
Kyren Williams and LAR host SF on Thursday at 8:35 PM ET.
SF allowed 24.3 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 14th most in the league.
Running backs ran for 114 yards and a touchdown against SF and caught passes for 29 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Kyren Williams has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Jeremiyah Love was listed as questionable when the call was made.
Kyren Williams was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Kyren Williams played 17 games for LAR and scored 263.3 PPR points, 15.5 a game, finishing RB9.
He ran 259 times for 1252 yards and 10 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 50 targets for 281 yards.
He was on the field for 68 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Kyren Williams, Week 18 of 2025 against ARI: 12 carries for 60 yards, 5 targets and 3 catches for 21 yards, 11.1 PPR points.
Kyren Williams, Week 17 of 2025 against ATL: 46 of 65 snaps, 13 carries for 92 yards, 3 targets and 3 catches for 38 yards, 16.0 PPR points.
Kyren Williams, Week 16 of 2025 against SEA: 65 of 92 snaps, 23 carries for 70 yards, 6 targets and 3 catches for 15 yards, 11.5 PPR points.
How Week 1 went
Jeremiyah Love scored 13.0 PPR points and Kyren Williams scored 15.5.
The call was wrong: Kyren Williams outscored Jeremiyah Love by 2.5.
Jeremiyah Love, Week 1 against LAC: 32 of 75 snaps, 11 carries for 41 yards, 4 targets and 2 catches for 9 yards, 1 touchdown, 13.0 PPR points.
Jeremiyah Love finished as the week's RB21 in PPR scoring.
Kyren Williams finished 9.9 points above the 5.7 the props implied.
Kyren Williams, Week 1 against SF: 39 of 61 snaps, 11 carries for 41 yards, 3 targets and 3 catches for 24 yards, 1 touchdown, 15.5 PPR points.
Kyren Williams finished as the week's RB15 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 1 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
RB11 · ARI · bye 14
- Overall rank
- 28
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
Ranked behind
RB33 · LAR · bye 11
2025 vs rush yds line 10-7
- Overall rank
- 78
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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 board50
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 4 and tier 6
- Board size244 draftable players
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