Start Kenny Gainwell or Chris Rodriguez Jr.? Week 6
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Kenny Gainwell over Chris Rodriguez Jr.
- Market projects
- 6.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 41%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 11%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 4.8
- fantasy pts
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Our Week 6 call
Start Kenny Gainwell over Chris Rodriguez Jr. in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Kenny Gainwell at 6.0 points and Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 4.8, a gap of 1.3. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. Chris Rodriguez Jr.'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.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 6.0 fantasy points for Kenny Gainwell, with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Kenny Gainwell is 10 rushing yards, 13 receiving yards and 2-3 receptions, with a 20% chance to score a touchdown (12, 7, 7 and 6 market sources).
Player markets imply 4.8 fantasy points for Chris Rodriguez Jr., with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Chris Rodriguez Jr. is 18 rushing yards, with a 20% chance to score a touchdown (11 and 13 market sources).
That puts Kenny Gainwell 1.3 points ahead of Chris Rodriguez Jr. on the market projections.
Injury status
Kenny Gainwell is not on the injury report.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 5, Kenny Gainwell played 41 percent of TB snaps, took 13 percent of the carries, drew 11 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
Kenny Gainwell, Week 2 against CLE: 23 of 65 snaps, 2 carries for 10 yards, 4 targets and 3 catches for 5 yards.
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.
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 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
RB29 · TB · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 84
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
Ranked behind
RB32 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 106
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 6, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board22
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 8
- Board size200 draftable players
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