Makai Lemon or Kenny Gainwell: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Makai Lemon at 6.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 books. That is the 143rd highest figure of the 170 players the books price.

The player markets price Kenny Gainwell at 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 books. That is the 152nd highest figure of the 170 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Makai Lemon: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 150.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenny Gainwell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 134.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Makai Lemon has been on the field for 63 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 21 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 12 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 2.6 air yards.

In Week 1 against WAS he caught 3 of 4 targets for -5 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against TEN he carried 1 time for -5 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 14 yards and did not score.

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

Makai Lemon is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

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.

Side by side

Makai Lemon 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

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

0.6 points a game is the entire case. The books restate 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 price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.