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Should I start Caleb Williams or Roschon Johnson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 1:46 AM ET.

Start Caleb Williams: 96 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Roschon Johnson's 28 percent of the snaps and 21 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.

Should I drop Roschon Johnson for Caleb Williams?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Caleb Williams projects 186 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (18.6 a game over 10 games), Roschon Johnson 26 (2.6 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

QB4 · CHI · bye 10

2025 vs pass yds line 10-7

Market-based projection
18.8 pts a game

RB21 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Overall rank
62

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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 Caleb Williams, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Roschon Johnson, and the board ranks him 62nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Caleb Williams's market-based projection is 18.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Roschon Johnson is 5.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 96 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 111 times and thrown 6.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 18 of 111 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.

In Week 1 against CAR he completed 21 of 29 passes for 269 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 10 times for 65 yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 138 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 42 yards.

In Week 6 against ATL he completed 30 of 36 passes for 305 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 4 yards.

Through Week 6, Roschon Johnson has been on the field for 22 percent of CHI snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 3 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 2.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 4 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he carried 5 times for 6 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he carried 13 times for 51 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Caleb Williams played 17 games and scored 325.2 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB5.

He threw for 3942 yards on 568 attempts with 27 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 383 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 33.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Roschon Johnson played 7 games and scored 1.7 PPR points, 0.2 a game, finishing RB134.

He carried 2 times for 17 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.3 carries a game at 9 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 1 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Caleb Williams was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Caleb Williams scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Roschon Johnson 0.2, 18.9 a game between them.

Caleb Williams finished QB5 and Roschon Johnson RB134, which are two different ladders.

Caleb Williams is a quarterback and Roschon Johnson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Roschon Johnson for Caleb Williams?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Caleb Williams projects 186 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (18.6 a game over 10 games), Roschon Johnson 26 (2.6 a game over 10 games).

  • Should I drop Caleb Williams for Roschon Johnson?

    No. Keep Caleb Williams: he projects 186 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (18.6 a game over 10 games), Roschon Johnson 26 (2.6 a game over 10 games).

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