Should I start Tyler Warren or Kenny Gainwell in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Warren, and the board ranks him 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenny Gainwell, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tyler Warren's market-based projection is 10.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 81st highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kenny Gainwell is 6.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 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 so far

Through Week 5, Tyler Warren has been on the field for 91 percent of IND snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 36 targets have averaged 4.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against HOU he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 9 of 10 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against WAS he caught 5 of 5 targets for 41 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PIT he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 83 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Tyler Warren played 17 games and scored 188.5 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE4.

He caught 76 of 112 targets for 817 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 19 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 10.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 84 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.

Side by side

In 2025 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and Tyler Warren 11.1, 2.0 a game between them.

Tyler Warren finished TE4 and Kenny Gainwell RB16, which are two different ladders.

Tyler Warren is a tight end 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

Tyler Warren is off in Week 13 and Kenny Gainwell in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Tyler Warren is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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.