Start Sione Vaki or Kimani Vidal? Week 10

Our Week 10 call

Start Kimani Vidal over Sione Vaki in Week 10.

Market-based projections have Kimani Vidal at 5.6 points and Sione Vaki at 3.8, a gap of 1.7. Sione Vaki'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. No player market is posted for Kimani Vidal this week yet, so his 5.6 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 8 and 9 (5.8 and 5.3); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 10 player market is posted for Kimani Vidal yet. His market-based projections were 5.8 and 5.3 points in Weeks 8 and 9, an average of 5.6, which stands in until his Week 10 market posts.

Player markets imply 3.8 fantasy points for Sione Vaki, with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

The market-based projection for Sione Vaki is 14 rushing yards and 0.2 touchdowns (11 and 12 market sources).

That puts Kimani Vidal 1.7 points ahead of Sione Vaki on these projections.

Week 10 matchups

Kimani Vidal and LAC visit BAL on Monday at 8:15 PM ET.

BAL allowed 19.9 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 9 games, the 11th fewest in the league.

Running backs ran for 82 yards and a touchdown a game against BAL and caught passes for 17 more yards.

Sione Vaki and DET host NE on Sunday at 9:30 AM ET.

NE allowed 19.0 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 8 games, the 6th fewest in the league.

Running backs ran for 82 yards and 0.6 touchdowns a game against NE and caught passes for 31 more yards.

By points allowed to the position, Kimani Vidal has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Kimani Vidal is not on the injury report.

Sione Vaki is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 10

Through Week 9, Kimani Vidal played 31 percent of LAC snaps, took 16 percent of the carries, drew 7 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

Kimani Vidal, Week 5 against DEN: 28 of 67 snaps, 8 carries for 57 yards, 2 targets and 1 catch for -1 yards, 1 touchdown.

Kimani Vidal, Week 6 against KC: 25 of 68 snaps, 7 carries for 21 yards, 4 targets and 3 catches for 19 yards.

Kimani Vidal, Week 8 against LAR: 28 of 61 snaps, 8 carries for 23 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 7 yards.

Kimani Vidal, Week 9 against HOU: 28 of 72 snaps, 7 carries for 30 yards, 3 targets and 1 catch for 6 yards.

Through Week 9, Sione Vaki played 25 percent of DET snaps, took 13 percent of the carries, drew 3 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

Sione Vaki, Week 5 against ARI: 23 of 66 snaps, 6 carries for 11 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Sione Vaki, Week 7 against GB: 9 of 68 snaps, 1 carry for 5 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Sione Vaki, Week 8 against MIN: 20 of 72 snaps, 11 carries for 65 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 5 yards.

Sione Vaki, Week 9 against MIA: 19 of 59 snaps, 3 carries for 14 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 7 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Kimani Vidal played 13 games for LAC and scored 117.9 PPR points, 9.1 a game, finishing RB42.

He ran 155 times for 643 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 16 of 22 targets for 136 yards.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

In 2025, Sione Vaki played 11 games for DET and scored 0.4 PPR points, 0.0 a game, finishing RB143.

He ran 1 time for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 yards.

He was on the field for 0 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 10 calls

• Start Austin Ekeler over Kimani Vidal.
• Start Corey Kiner over Kimani Vidal.
• Start Devin Singletary over Kimani Vidal.
• Start Austin Ekeler over Sione Vaki.
• Start Corey Kiner over Sione Vaki.
• Start Dylan Sampson over Sione Vaki.