Should I start Kenny Gainwell or Sione Vaki in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 5:11 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Kenny Gainwell over Sione Vaki
- Market projects
- 5.3
- recent weeks avg
- CAR D vs RB
- 25.7
- 5th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 36%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 9%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 2.4
- recent weeks avg
- GB D vs RB
- 26.2
- 3rd most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 26%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 3%
- Through Week 5
Start Kenny Gainwell: 30 percent of the snaps and 10 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Sione Vaki's 27 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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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.
RB45 · TB · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 6.6 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 144
RB · DET · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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The gap
- Board size299 draftable players
Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenny Gainwell, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Sione Vaki at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
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.
No season market is posted for Sione Vaki, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
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.
Through Week 5, Sione Vaki has been on the field for 26 percent of DET snaps, taken 12 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 26 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against ARI he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.
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.
In 2025 Sione Vaki played 11 games and scored 0.4 PPR points, 0.0 a game, finishing RB143.
He carried 1 time for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.
That came to 0.1 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry.
He was on the field for 0 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kenny Gainwell was available for 6 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and Sione Vaki 0.0, 13.0 a game between them.
Kenny Gainwell finished RB16 that year and Sione Vaki RB143.
Kenny Gainwell had 113 more carries than Sione Vaki, 114 to 1.
Kenny Gainwell had 73 more catches than Sione Vaki, 73 to 0.
This season Kenny Gainwell holds the bigger snap share, 36 percent against 26 percent.
Their share of the carries this season is the same, 12 percent each.
Byes and availability
Kenny Gainwell is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Sione Vaki.
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