Kenny Gainwell or AJ Dillon: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenny Gainwell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 110th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry AJ Dillon at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kenny Gainwell is 3.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 4 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

No season market is posted for AJ Dillon, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Kenny Gainwell has been on the field for 41 percent of TB snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 2.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against MIN he carried 3 times for -4 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against GB he carried 3 times for 5 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 4 times for 18 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, AJ Dillon has been on the field for 12 percent of CAR snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against ATL he carried 3 times for -3 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CLE he carried 4 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DET he carried 5 times for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kenny Gainwell played 17 games and scored 222.3 PPR points, 13.1 a game, finishing RB16.

He carried 114 times for 537 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 73 of 85 targets for 486 more yards.

That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.7 yards a carry and 4.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 AJ Dillon played 7 games and scored 9.1 PPR points, 1.3 a game, finishing RB113.

He carried 12 times for 60 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 3 targets for 21 more yards.

That came to 1.7 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 11 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kenny Gainwell was available for 10 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and AJ Dillon 1.3, 11.8 a game between them.

Kenny Gainwell finished RB16 that year and AJ Dillon RB113.

Kenny Gainwell had 102 more carries than AJ Dillon, 114 to 12.

Kenny Gainwell had 70 more catches than AJ Dillon, 73 to 3.

This season Kenny Gainwell holds the bigger snap share, 41 percent against 12 percent.

This season AJ Dillon holds the bigger share of the carries, 18 percent against 13 percent.

Byes and availability

Kenny Gainwell is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for AJ Dillon.