Should I start Travis Etienne Jr. or Kenny Gainwell in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 6:31 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Travis Etienne Jr.: 51 percent of the snaps and 38 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Kenny Gainwell's 39 percent of the snaps and 34 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.
RB · NO · bye 8
2025 vs rush yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 250
RB · TB · on bye this week
2026 vs carries line 3-6
- Market-based projection
- 6.1 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 252
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The gap
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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 Travis Etienne Jr., and the board ranks him 250th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenny Gainwell, and the board ranks him 252nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Travis Etienne Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Kenny Gainwell, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 3, Travis Etienne Jr. has been on the field for 51 percent of NO snaps, taken 38 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 1 against DET he carried 9 times for 46 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against BAL he carried 8 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against LV he carried 13 times for 57 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
Through Week 9, Kenny Gainwell has been on the field for 37 percent of TB snaps, taken 22 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 69 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 51 two minute targets.
His 21 targets have come 1.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 7 against CAR he carried 14 times for 88 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against ATL he carried 25 times for 140 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against CHI he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 60 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Travis Etienne Jr. played 17 games and scored 253.9 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing RB10.
He carried 260 times for 1107 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 52 targets for 292 more yards.
That came to 15.3 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 60 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.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Travis Etienne Jr. scored 14.9 PPR points a game and Kenny Gainwell 13.1, 1.9 a game between them.
Travis Etienne Jr. finished RB10 that year and Kenny Gainwell RB16.
Travis Etienne Jr. had 146 more carries than Kenny Gainwell, 260 to 114.
Kenny Gainwell had 37 more catches than Travis Etienne Jr., 73 to 36.
This season Travis Etienne Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 51 percent against 37 percent.
This season Travis Etienne Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 38 percent against 22 percent.
Byes and availability
Travis Etienne Jr. is off in Week 8 and Kenny Gainwell in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Travis Etienne Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
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