Kenny Gainwell or Jalen Hurts: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenny Gainwell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Hurts: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kenny Gainwell's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 111th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jalen Hurts is 17.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jalen Hurts'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.

Through Week 5, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 99 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.

In Week 3 against CHI he completed 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.

In Week 4 against LAR he completed 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 18 yards.

In Week 5 against JAX he completed 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.

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 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.

He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.

That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kenny Gainwell was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Kenny Gainwell 13.1, 6.0 a game between them.

Kenny Gainwell finished RB16 and Jalen Hurts QB8, which are two different ladders.

Kenny Gainwell is a running back and Jalen Hurts a quarterback, 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

Jalen Hurts is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.