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Should I start Tyrone Tracy Jr. or Kenny Gainwell in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 6:16 PM ET.

Week 7 verdict

Start Kenny Gainwell over Tyrone Tracy Jr.

Gainwell projects lower, 5.3 to 6.3, and still gets the call because it also weighs where drafters take each player: ADP 95 for Gainwell, 192 for Tracy.

Start

RB · TB · at CAR

Market projects
5.3
recent weeks avg
CAR D vs RB
25.7
5th most to RBs (2026)
Upside
Limited
36 of 100 at RB
Snap share
36%
Through Week 6
Target share
9%
Through Week 6
Sit

RB · NYG · at HOU

Market projects
6.3
fantasy pts
HOU D vs RB
18.9
9th fewest to RBs (2026)
Start Gainwell or Tracy? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Kenny Gainwell: 30 percent of the snaps and 10 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Tyrone Tracy Jr.'s 25 percent of the snaps and 14 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.

Should I drop Tyrone Tracy Jr. for Kenny Gainwell?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Kenny Gainwell projects 61 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.1 a game over 10 games), Tyrone Tracy Jr. 34 (3.4 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Kenny Gainwell over Tyrone Tracy Jr.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB27 · NYG · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
6.3 pts a game

RB51 · TB · bye 10

2026 vs carries line 1-5

Market-based projection
6.6 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
154

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The gap

  • Board size314 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 Tyrone Tracy Jr., and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenny Gainwell, and the board ranks him 154th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tyrone Tracy Jr.'s market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 115th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kenny Gainwell is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 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.

Kenny Gainwell's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tyrone Tracy Jr. has been on the field for 15 percent of NYG snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 1.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he carried 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 6 times for 18 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 27 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyrone Tracy Jr. played 15 games and scored 160.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing RB28.

He carried 176 times for 740 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 48 targets for 288 more yards.

That came to 11.7 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 54 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 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Kenny Gainwell scored 13.1 PPR points a game and Tyrone Tracy Jr. 10.7, 2.4 a game between them.

Tyrone Tracy Jr. finished RB28 that year and Kenny Gainwell RB16.

Tyrone Tracy Jr. had 62 more carries than Kenny Gainwell, 176 to 114.

Kenny Gainwell had 37 more catches than Tyrone Tracy Jr., 73 to 36.

This season Kenny Gainwell holds the bigger snap share, 36 percent against 15 percent.

This season Kenny Gainwell holds the bigger share of the carries, 12 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Tyrone Tracy Jr. is off in Week 8 and Kenny Gainwell in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Tyrone Tracy Jr. for Kenny Gainwell?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Kenny Gainwell projects 61 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.1 a game over 10 games), Tyrone Tracy Jr. 34 (3.4 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Kenny Gainwell over Tyrone Tracy Jr.

  • Should I drop Kenny Gainwell for Tyrone Tracy Jr.?

    No. Keep Kenny Gainwell: he projects 61 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.1 a game over 10 games), Tyrone Tracy Jr. 34 (3.4 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Kenny Gainwell over Tyrone Tracy Jr.

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