Jordan Love or Kenny Gainwell: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 3:36 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Jordan Love, 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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QB27 · GB · bye 11
2025 vs pass yds line 6-9
- Books price
- 14.7 pts a game Wk 3 price
- Overall rank
- 132
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
RB35 · TB · bye 10
2025 vs catches line 10-7
- Books price
- 6.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jordan Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 58.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenny Gainwell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 134.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Jordan Love, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Kenny Gainwell at 6.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 books. That is the 144th highest figure of the 176 players the books price.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Jordan Love has been on the field for 100 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 78 times and thrown 9.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 19 of 78 dropbacks.
In Week 1 against MIN he completed 21 of 42 passes for 387 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 0 yards.
In Week 2 against NYJ he completed 16 of 29 passes for 145 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
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 Jordan Love played 15 games and scored 241.1 PPR points, 16.1 a game, finishing QB15.
He threw for 3381 yards on 439 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 199 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 29.3 attempts a game at 7.7 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 94 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 2 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jordan Love scored 16.1 PPR points a game and Kenny Gainwell 13.1, 3.0 a game between them.
Jordan Love finished QB15 and Kenny Gainwell RB16, which are two different ladders.
Jordan Love is a quarterback 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
Jordan Love is off in Week 11 and Kenny Gainwell in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Jordan Love has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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