Start Bam Knight or Kenny Gainwell? Week 7
Locks at kickoff, graded after. Week 8 answer posts Tuesday.
Start Bam Knight over Kenny Gainwell
- Market projects
- 7.0
- fantasy pts
- Market projects
- 6.3
- fantasy pts
- CAR D vs RB
- 25.7
- 5th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 36%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 9%
- Through Week 6
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Our Week 7 call
Start Bam Knight over Kenny Gainwell in Week 7.
Market-based projections have Bam Knight at 7.0 points and Kenny Gainwell at 6.3, a gap of 0.7. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. Bam Knight's number is scaled up from a partial market: not every stat the position needs is posted yet, so the rest is estimated from what is. Market coverage on Bam Knight is 70 percent of what his position needs, so the market side of this carries proportionally less weight.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 7.0 fantasy points for Bam Knight, with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Bam Knight is 31 rushing yards and 0.2 touchdowns (5 and 13 market sources).
Player markets imply 6.3 fantasy points for Kenny Gainwell, with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Kenny Gainwell is 13 rushing yards, 14 receiving yards, 2-3 receptions and 0.2 touchdowns (9, 8, 6 and 12 market sources).
That puts Bam Knight 0.7 points ahead of Kenny Gainwell on the market projections.
Week 7 matchups
Kenny Gainwell and TB visit CAR on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
CAR allowed 25.7 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 5 games, the 5th most in the league.
Running backs ran for 103 yards and 1.2 touchdowns a game against CAR and caught passes for 34 more yards.
Injury status
Bam Knight is not on the injury report.
Kenny Gainwell is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 7
Through Week 6, Kenny Gainwell played 36 percent of TB snaps, took 12 percent of the carries, drew 9 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
Kenny Gainwell, Week 3 against MIN: 32 of 69 snaps, 3 carries for -4 yards, 5 targets and 2 catches for 14 yards.
Kenny Gainwell, Week 4 against GB: 27 of 64 snaps, 3 carries for 5 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 22 yards, 1 touchdown.
Kenny Gainwell, Week 5 against DAL: 26 of 72 snaps, 4 carries for 18 yards, 4 targets and 3 catches for 10 yards.
Kenny Gainwell, Week 6 against PIT: 11 of 74 snaps, 2 carries for 17 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 7 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Kenny Gainwell played 17 games for PIT and scored 222.3 PPR points, 13.1 a game, finishing RB16.
He ran 114 times for 537 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 73 of 85 targets for 486 yards.
He was on the field for 49 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 7 calls
Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 7, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.