Colston Loveland or Kenny Gainwell: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Colston Loveland at 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 books. That is the 144th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.

The player markets price Kenny Gainwell at 6.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 books. That is the 157th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colston Loveland: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 81.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenny Gainwell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 134.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 87 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.

In Week 1 against CAR he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against MIN he caught 1 of 3 targets for 3 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 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 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.

Kenny Gainwell was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and Colston Loveland 10.3, 2.8 a game between them.

Colston Loveland finished TE12 and Kenny Gainwell RB16, which are two different ladders.

Colston Loveland is a tight end and Kenny Gainwell a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

0.8 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.