Start Kenny Gainwell or Brian Robinson Jr.? Week 8
Updated Oct 28, 7:21 AM ET. Locks at kickoff, graded after. Week 9 answer posts Tuesday.
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- : Kenny Gainwell: Listed Questionable (Hip) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Kenny Gainwell over Brian Robinson
Gainwell projects lower, 6.5 to 7.9, and still gets the call because it also weighs where drafters take each player: ADP 95 for Gainwell, 210 for Robinson.
- Market projects
- 6.5
- fantasy pts
- ATL D vs RB
- 24.6
- 8th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 35%
- Through Week 7
- Target share
- 9%
- Through Week 7
- Market projects
- 7.9
- recent weeks avg
- TB D vs RB
- 17.8
- 3rd fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 31%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 6
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Our Week 8 call
Start Kenny Gainwell over Brian Robinson in Week 8.
Market-based projections have Kenny Gainwell at 6.5 points and Brian Robinson at 7.9, a gap of 1.5. Kenny Gainwell still gets the call because it also weighs where drafters take each player, ADP 95 against 210, and that outweighs a gap this size. Kenny Gainwell'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. No player market is posted for Brian Robinson this week yet, so his 7.9 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 5, 6 and 7 (8.3, 8.4 and 7.1); the call is rebuilt when his market posts. Market coverage on Kenny Gainwell is 40 percent of what his position needs, so the market side of this carries proportionally less weight.
What the market projects
No Week 8 player market is posted for Brian Robinson yet. His market-based projections were 8.3, 8.4 and 7.1 points in Weeks 5, 6 and 7, an average of 7.9, which stands in until his Week 8 market posts.
The market-based projection for Brian Robinson is 0.3 touchdowns (3 market sources).
Player markets imply 6.5 fantasy points for Kenny Gainwell, with 40 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Kenny Gainwell is 11 receiving yards and 0.3 touchdowns (5 and 8 market sources).
That puts Brian Robinson 1.5 points ahead of Kenny Gainwell on these projections.
Week 8 matchups
Brian Robinson and ATL visit TB on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
TB allowed 17.8 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 7 games, the 3rd fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 65 yards and 0.4 touchdowns a game against TB and caught passes for 37 more yards.
Kenny Gainwell and TB host ATL on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
ATL allowed 24.6 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 7 games, the 8th most in the league.
Running backs ran for 82 yards and a touchdown a game against ATL and caught passes for 39 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Kenny Gainwell has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Brian Robinson is listed as questionable with a hamstring injury.
Kenny Gainwell is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 8
Through Week 6, Brian Robinson played 31 percent of ATL snaps, took 31 percent of the carries, drew 4 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
Brian Robinson, Week 3 against GB: 19 of 71 snaps, 10 carries for 50 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 1 touchdown.
Brian Robinson, Week 4 against NO: 24 of 57 snaps, 14 carries for 62 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 5 yards, 3 touchdowns.
Brian Robinson, Week 5 against BAL: 14 of 64 snaps, 7 carries for 16 yards, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Brian Robinson, Week 6 against CHI: 10 of 55 snaps, 2 carries for 1 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 9 yards.
Through Week 7, Kenny Gainwell played 35 percent of TB snaps, took 16 percent of the carries, drew 9 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
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.
Kenny Gainwell, Week 7 against CAR: 19 of 63 snaps, 14 carries for 88 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 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 8 calls
Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 8, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
Week 8 on the board
- Is Kenny Gainwell playing Week 8?
- Is Brian Robinson Jr. playing Week 8?
- Buccaneers depth chart
- Falcons depth chart
- Week 8 RB rankings
- Week 8 fantasy rankings
- Week 8 start or sit
- Week 8 waiver wire
- Week 8 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 8
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 8 kicker rankings
- Week 8 defense rankings