Alvin Kamara or Roschon Johnson: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Alvin Kamara: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Roschon Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Alvin Kamara's market-based projection is 7.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 104th highest figure of the 185 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Roschon Johnson is 5.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Alvin Kamara has been on the field for 32 percent of NO snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 2 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 0.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LV he carried 9 times for 36 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against ATL he carried 7 times for 23 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 35 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against MIN he carried 3 times for 12 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for -6 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Roschon Johnson has been on the field for 16 percent of CHI snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 2.9 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 4 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he carried 5 times for 6 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Alvin Kamara played 11 games and scored 100.7 PPR points, 9.2 a game, finishing RB46.

He carried 131 times for 471 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 33 of 39 targets for 186 more yards.

That came to 11.9 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Roschon Johnson played 7 games and scored 1.7 PPR points, 0.2 a game, finishing RB134.

He carried 2 times for 17 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.3 carries a game at 9 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 1 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Alvin Kamara was available for 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Alvin Kamara scored 9.2 PPR points a game and Roschon Johnson 0.2, 8.9 a game between them.

Alvin Kamara finished RB46 that year and Roschon Johnson RB134.

Alvin Kamara had 129 more carries than Roschon Johnson, 131 to 2.

Alvin Kamara had 33 more catches than Roschon Johnson, 33 to 0.

This season Alvin Kamara holds the bigger snap share, 32 percent against 16 percent.

This season Alvin Kamara holds the bigger share of the carries, 31 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Alvin Kamara is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Roschon Johnson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.