Laquon Treadwell or Kenny Gainwell: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Laquon Treadwell's market-based projection is 6.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 113th highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.

Kenny Gainwell's market-based projection is 6.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Laquon Treadwell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenny Gainwell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Laquon Treadwell has been on the field for 72 percent of IND snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 13.1 air yards.

In Week 3 against HOU he caught 1 of 1 target for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against WAS he caught 5 of 6 targets for 42 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PIT he caught 2 of 8 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Laquon Treadwell played 10 games.

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

He was on the field for 5 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 7 games more.

Side by side

Laquon Treadwell 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 Laquon Treadwell.

What would change the answer

0.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.