Kenny Gainwell or Seth McGowan: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 3:06 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Kenny Gainwell over Seth McGowan
- Market projects
- 6.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 41%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 11%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 3.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 18%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 2%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB33 · TB · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 110
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
RB35 · IND · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 114
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size198 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenny Gainwell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 110th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Seth McGowan: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Kenny Gainwell is 3.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 4 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Seth McGowan is 3.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 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 5
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.
Through Week 5, Seth McGowan has been on the field for 18 percent of IND snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against HOU he carried 4 times for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against WAS he carried 6 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against PIT he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and did not score.
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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.
Seth McGowan is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Kenny Gainwell holds the bigger snap share, 41 percent against 18 percent.
Their share of the carries this season is the same, 13 percent each.
Byes and availability
Kenny Gainwell is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Seth McGowan.
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