Should I start Kenny Gainwell or Dylan Sampson in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Dylan Sampson, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB39 · TB · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 6.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB41 · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs anytime td line 2-13
- Overall rank
- 139
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size317 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenny Gainwell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Dylan Sampson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Kenny Gainwell's market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 125th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Dylan Sampson is 6.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Dylan Sampson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
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.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Dylan Sampson this season.
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 Dylan Sampson played 15 games and scored 87.6 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing RB55.
He carried 65 times for 175 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 271 more yards.
That came to 4.3 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 25 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kenny Gainwell was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and Dylan Sampson 5.8, 7.2 a game between them.
Kenny Gainwell finished RB16 that year and Dylan Sampson RB55.
Kenny Gainwell had 49 more carries than Dylan Sampson, 114 to 65.
Kenny Gainwell had 40 more catches than Dylan Sampson, 73 to 33.
Byes and availability
Kenny Gainwell is off in Week 10 and Dylan Sampson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Dylan Sampson is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Dylan Sampson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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