Should I drop Isaac TeSlaa for Kenny Gainwell?

Not on these numbers alone. Isaac TeSlaa projects 64 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (5.8 a game over 11 games) and Kenny Gainwell 61 (6.1 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

Should I start Isaac TeSlaa or Kenny Gainwell in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 4:46 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Isaac TeSlaa: 57 percent of the snaps and 12 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kenny Gainwell's 30 percent of the snaps and 10 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Kenny Gainwell for Isaac TeSlaa?

Not on these numbers alone. Kenny Gainwell projects 61 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.1 a game over 10 games) and Isaac TeSlaa 64 (5.8 a game over 11 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Isaac TeSlaa

WR46 · DET · bye 6

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Market-based projection: 5.3 pts a game

Kenny Gainwell

RB51 · TB · bye 10

2026 vs carries line 1-5

Market-based projection: 6.6 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 147

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The gap

Board size311 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaac TeSlaa, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenny Gainwell, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Isaac TeSlaa's market-based projection is 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 123rd highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kenny Gainwell is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Kenny Gainwell's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Isaac TeSlaa has been on the field for 63 percent of DET snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 12.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYJ he caught 3 of 3 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CAR he caught 4 of 8 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Kenny Gainwell has been on the field for 36 percent of TB snaps, taken 12 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 2.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 6 against PIT he carried 2 times for 17 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Isaac TeSlaa played 17 games and scored 75.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR82.

He caught 16 of 27 targets for 239 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 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.

Side by side

In 2025 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and Isaac TeSlaa 4.5, 8.6 a game between them.

Isaac TeSlaa finished WR82 and Kenny Gainwell RB16, which are two different ladders.

Isaac TeSlaa is a wide receiver 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

Isaac TeSlaa is off in Week 6 and Kenny Gainwell in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Kenny Gainwell has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Kenny Gainwell for Isaac TeSlaa?
Not on these numbers alone. Kenny Gainwell projects 61 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.1 a game over 10 games) and Isaac TeSlaa 64 (5.8 a game over 11 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.
Should I drop Isaac TeSlaa for Kenny Gainwell?
Not on these numbers alone. Isaac TeSlaa projects 64 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (5.8 a game over 11 games) and Kenny Gainwell 61 (6.1 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.