Should I start Jalen Brooks or Kenny Gainwell in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Brooks, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenny Gainwell, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jalen Brooks's market-based projection is 4.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 114th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kenny Gainwell is 1.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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 through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jalen Brooks has been on the field for 21 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 13.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 2 of 7 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 2 of 3 targets for 30 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 Jalen Brooks played 6 games and scored 6.1 PPR points, 1.0 a game.

He caught 3 of 6 targets for 51 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 1.0 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 17.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 32 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 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and Jalen Brooks 1.0, 12.1 a game between them.

Jalen Brooks 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

Kenny Gainwell is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Jalen Brooks.

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.