Blake Corum or Kenny Gainwell: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Blake Corum at 7.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 books. That is the 133rd highest figure of the 175 players the books price.

The player markets price Kenny Gainwell at 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 books. That is the 145th highest figure of the 175 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Blake Corum: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 124.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenny Gainwell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 135.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Blake Corum has been on the field for 34 percent of LAR snaps, taken 42 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 14 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 1 target have come 6.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against SF he carried 10 times for 54 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NYG he carried 12 times for 79 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 2, Kenny Gainwell has been on the field for 40 percent of TB snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 14 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 2 of its 8 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against CIN he carried 5 times for 15 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against CLE he carried 2 times for 10 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Blake Corum played 17 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB40.

He carried 145 times for 746 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 14 targets for 36 more yards.

That came to 8.5 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 5.9 a game between them.

Blake Corum finished RB40 that year and Kenny Gainwell RB16.

Blake Corum had 31 more carries than Kenny Gainwell, 145 to 114.

Kenny Gainwell had 65 more catches than Blake Corum, 73 to 8.

This season Kenny Gainwell holds the bigger snap share, 40 percent against 34 percent.

This season Blake Corum holds the bigger share of the carries, 42 percent against 16 percent.

Byes and availability

Blake Corum is off in Week 11 and Kenny Gainwell in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

1.4 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.