Should I start Savion Williams or Kenny Gainwell in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Savion Williams, and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenny Gainwell, and the board ranks him 53rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Savion Williams's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kenny Gainwell is 6.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 6 market sources. That is 40 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Savion Williams has been on the field for 56 percent of GB snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Kenny Gainwell has been on the field for 35 percent of TB snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 2.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 7 against CAR he carried 14 times for 88 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Savion Williams played 12 games and scored 25.5 PPR points, 2.1 a game, finishing WR144.

He caught 10 of 10 targets for 78 yards and 1 touchdown, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 7.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 12 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 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and Savion Williams 2.1, 11.0 a game between them.

Savion Williams finished WR144 and Kenny Gainwell RB16, which are two different ladders.

Savion Williams 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 Savion Williams.

Kenny Gainwell is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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