Kaleb Johnson or Cam Ward: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 11, 2026 at 9:11 PM ET
Cam Ward is the start on the latest market price, 12.5 points to Kaleb Johnson's 6.0, the market figures from their Week 5 games. The next week's markets are not all posted yet, and this answer reorders when they are. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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RB42 · GB · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 6.0 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 163
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
QB28 · TEN · bye 9
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Market price
- 12.5 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 164
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size289 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Kaleb Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 163rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Cam Ward: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 164th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 43.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Kaleb Johnson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Cam Ward, 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 through Week 4
Through Week 4, Kaleb Johnson has been on the field for 31 percent of GB snaps, taken 41 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 14 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against NYJ he carried 8 times for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against ATL he carried 4 times for 6 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TB he carried 8 times for 42 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Cam Ward has been on the field for 100 percent of TEN snaps, dropped back 135 times and thrown 6.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 17 of 135 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 2 against PHI he completed 13 of 20 passes for 183 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 7 yards.
In Week 3 against NYG he completed 23 of 36 passes for 181 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.
In Week 4 against BAL he completed 20 of 31 passes for 222 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 27 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Kaleb Johnson played 10 games and scored 8.8 PPR points, 0.9 a game, finishing RB115.
He carried 28 times for 69 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 more yards.
That came to 2.8 carries a game at 2.5 yards a carry and 0.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 6 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Cam Ward played 17 games and scored 193.7 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing QB22.
He threw for 3169 yards on 540 attempts with 15 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 159 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 31.8 attempts a game at 5.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Cam Ward was available for 7 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Cam Ward scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Kaleb Johnson 0.9, 10.5 a game between them.
Kaleb Johnson finished RB115 and Cam Ward QB22, which are two different ladders.
Kaleb Johnson is a running back and Cam Ward a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Cam Ward is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Kaleb Johnson.
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