Treylon Burks or Kenny Gainwell: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Treylon Burks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 171st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenny Gainwell: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 172nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

No season market is posted for Treylon Burks, 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 through Week 4

Through Week 4, Treylon Burks has been on the field for 41 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 25.7 air yards.

In Week 2 against DAL he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against SEA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against IND he caught 1 of 3 targets for 47 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 4, Kenny Gainwell has been on the field for 42 percent of TB snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have come 0.5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against CLE he carried 2 times for 10 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Treylon Burks played 8 games and scored 29.0 PPR points, 3.6 a game, finishing WR138.

He caught 10 of 22 targets for 130 yards and 1 touchdown, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.8 targets a game, a 45 percent catch rate and 13.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 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 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and Treylon Burks 3.6, 9.5 a game between them.

Treylon Burks finished WR138 and Kenny Gainwell RB16, which are two different ladders.

Treylon Burks 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 Treylon Burks.