Should I start Kaleb Johnson or Austin Ekeler in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kaleb Johnson, and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kaleb Johnson is 9.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 7 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.

Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 83rd highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Kaleb Johnson has been on the field for 25 percent of GB snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 7 times for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 1 time for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against NE he carried 14 times for 68 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 9, Austin Ekeler has been on the field for 25 percent of WAS snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he carried 8 times for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAR he carried 8 times for 16 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kaleb Johnson played 10 games and scored 8.8 PPR points, 0.9 a game, finishing RB115.

He carried 28 times for 69 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 more yards.

That came to 2.8 carries a game at 3 yards a carry and 0.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 6 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Austin Ekeler played 2 games and scored 13.1 PPR points, 6.6 a game, finishing RB103.

He carried 14 times for 43 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 7 targets for 38 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 3.1 yards a carry and 2-3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kaleb Johnson was available for 8 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Austin Ekeler scored 6.6 PPR points a game and Kaleb Johnson 0.9, 5.7 a game between them.

Kaleb Johnson finished RB115 that year and Austin Ekeler RB103.

Kaleb Johnson had 14 more carries than Austin Ekeler, 28 to 14.

Austin Ekeler had 4 more catches than Kaleb Johnson, 5 to 1.

Their snap share this season is the same, 25 percent each.

This season Kaleb Johnson holds the bigger share of the carries, 33 percent against 21 percent.

Byes and availability

Kaleb Johnson is off in Week 11 and Austin Ekeler in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Kaleb Johnson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.