Should I start Bo Melton or Tez Johnson in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 4:41 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Tez Johnson over Bo Melton
- Market projects
- 2.8
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 34%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 7%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 0.9
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 25%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 6
Start Tez Johnson: 39 percent of the snaps and 6 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Bo Melton's 33 percent of the snaps and 5 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Our board does not carry Bo Melton at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
Our board does not carry Tez Johnson at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Bo Melton, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Tez Johnson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Bo Melton has been on the field for 25 percent of GB snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against ATL he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TB he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Tez Johnson has been on the field for 34 percent of TB snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 41 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 20.3 air yards.
In Week 4 against GB he carried 1 time for 10 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against DAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 64 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against PIT he caught 2 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Bo Melton played 16 games and scored 24.2 PPR points, 1.5 a game, finishing WR146.
He caught 4 of 13 targets for 107 yards and 1 touchdown, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 31 percent catch rate and 26.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 9 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Tez Johnson played 16 games and scored 92.4 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR67.
He caught 28 of 44 targets for 322 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 2.8 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 12 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 16 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Tez Johnson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Bo Melton 1.5, 4.3 a game between them.
Bo Melton finished WR146 that year and Tez Johnson WR67.
Tez Johnson had 31 more targets than Bo Melton, 44 to 13.
Tez Johnson had 215 more receiving yards than Bo Melton, 322 to 107.
This season Tez Johnson holds the bigger snap share, 34 percent against 25 percent.
This season Tez Johnson holds the bigger target share, 7 percent against 4 percent.
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