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

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 30th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ty Johnson, and the board ranks him 204th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 26th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Ty Johnson is 1.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Ty 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, 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.

Through Week 9, Ty Johnson has been on the field for 24 percent of BUF snaps, taken 4 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 44 third down targets, had 1 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 6 against LV he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BAL he carried 4 times for 4 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against MIN he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Ty Johnson played 17 games and scored 100.3 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing RB47.

He carried 50 times for 200 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 33 targets for 263 more yards.

That came to 2.9 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ty Johnson was available for 15 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Austin Ekeler scored 6.6 PPR points a game and Ty Johnson 5.9, 0.7 a game between them.

Austin Ekeler finished RB103 that year and Ty Johnson RB47.

Ty Johnson had 36 more carries than Austin Ekeler, 50 to 14.

Ty Johnson had 19 more catches than Austin Ekeler, 24 to 5.

This season Austin Ekeler holds the bigger snap share, 25 percent against 24 percent.

This season Austin Ekeler holds the bigger share of the carries, 21 percent against 4 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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