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Should I start Brian Robinson Jr. or Juwan Johnson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 25, 8:16 AM ET.

Start Juwan Johnson: 68 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Brian Robinson Jr.'s 27 percent of the snaps and 32 percent of the carries. 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB32 · ATL · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 4-2

Overall rank
114

TE18 · NO · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection
8.2 pts a game

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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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Robinson Jr., and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Juwan Johnson, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Brian Robinson Jr. at 7.1 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 1 market source. That is 90 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Juwan Johnson's market-based projection is 8.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 104th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

Brian Robinson Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Brian Robinson Jr. has been on the field for 31 percent of ATL snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against NO he carried 14 times for 62 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against BAL he carried 7 times for 16 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CHI he carried 2 times for 1 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

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 Brian Robinson Jr. played 17 games and scored 62.5 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing RB63.

He carried 92 times for 400 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 12 targets for 25 more yards.

That came to 5.4 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 17 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 Juwan Johnson scored 10.6 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson Jr. 3.7, 6.9 a game between them.

Brian Robinson Jr. finished RB63 and Juwan Johnson TE8, which are two different ladders.

Brian Robinson Jr. is a running back 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

Brian Robinson Jr. is off in Week 11 and Juwan Johnson in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Brian Robinson Jr. is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Brian Robinson Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Should I drop Juwan Johnson?

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