Should I start Marvin Mims or Kenny Gainwell in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Marvin Mims, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenny Gainwell, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Marvin Mims is 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Kenny Gainwell is 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Marvin Mims has been on the field for 23 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Marvin Mims played 15 games and scored 93.0 PPR points, 6.2 a game, finishing WR66.

He caught 37 of 51 targets for 322 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 35 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 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and Marvin Mims 6.2, 6.9 a game between them.

Marvin Mims finished WR66 and Kenny Gainwell RB16, which are two different ladders.

Marvin Mims 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.