Should I start Baker Mayfield or Juwan Johnson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Baker Mayfield, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 20.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Juwan Johnson, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Baker Mayfield is 16.6 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Juwan Johnson's market-based projection is 8.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 90th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 3, Baker Mayfield has been on the field for 98 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 118 times and thrown 8.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 118 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 1 against CIN he completed 23 of 28 passes for 216 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 31 yards.

In Week 2 against CLE he completed 21 of 34 passes for 182 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 29 yards.

In Week 3 against MIN he completed 17 of 34 passes for 217 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 6 yards.

Through Week 6, Juwan Johnson has been on the field for 68 percent of NO snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against ATL he caught 6 of 8 targets for 59 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 4 of 5 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Baker Mayfield played 17 games and scored 282.9 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing QB12.

He threw for 3693 yards on 543 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 382 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 31.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Juwan Johnson played 17 games and scored 179.9 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing TE8.

He caught 77 of 102 targets for 889 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 12 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Baker Mayfield scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Juwan Johnson 10.6, 6.1 a game between them.

Baker Mayfield finished QB12 and Juwan Johnson TE8, which are two different ladders.

Baker Mayfield is a quarterback and Juwan Johnson a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Baker Mayfield is off in Week 10 and Juwan Johnson in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Baker Mayfield is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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