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Should I start Kenny Gainwell or Kyle Juszczyk in Week 7?

Updated Oct 23, 12:16 AM ET.

Start Kyle Juszczyk: 51 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the carries 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.

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

RB34 · TB · bye 10

2026 vs carries line 1-5

Market-based projection
6.2 pts a game

RB35 · SF · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Overall rank
109

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The gap

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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 Kenny Gainwell, and the board ranks him 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Juszczyk, and the board ranks him 109th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kenny Gainwell's market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 132nd highest figure of the 222 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kyle Juszczyk is 6.2 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

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.

Through Week 6, Kyle Juszczyk has been on the field for 49 percent of SF snaps, taken 0 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 10.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DEN he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against WAS he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

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.

The season feed carries no line for Kyle Juszczyk in the last completed season.

Head to head

This season Kyle Juszczyk holds the bigger snap share, 49 percent against 36 percent.

This season Kenny Gainwell holds the bigger share of the carries, 12 percent against 0 percent.

Byes and availability

Kenny Gainwell is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Kyle Juszczyk.

What would change the answer

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

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