Brock Bowers or Juwan Johnson: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Brock Bowers's market-based projection is 18.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 159 players with a market-based projection.

Juwan Johnson's market-based projection is 10.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 76th highest figure of the 159 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Bowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 12th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 32.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Juwan Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 78 percent of LV snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 9.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against NO he caught 10 of 13 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 6 of 11 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NE he caught 8 of 10 targets for 110 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Juwan Johnson has been on the field for 70 percent of NO snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 32 targets have averaged 5.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against LV he caught 8 of 8 targets for 53 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Bowers played 12 games and scored 176.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE11.

He caught 64 of 86 targets for 680 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 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.

Juwan Johnson was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Juwan Johnson 10.6, 4.1 a game between them.

Brock Bowers finished TE11 that year and Juwan Johnson TE8.

Juwan Johnson had 16 more targets than Brock Bowers, 102 to 86.

Juwan Johnson had 209 more receiving yards than Brock Bowers, 889 to 680.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 70 percent.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger target share, 30 percent against 16 percent.

Byes and availability

Brock Bowers is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Juwan Johnson.

Brock Bowers is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

8.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.