Should I start Colby Parkinson or Kaleb Johnson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colby Parkinson, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kaleb Johnson, and the board ranks him 134th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 5.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 103rd highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kaleb Johnson is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Kaleb 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, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Kaleb Johnson has been on the field for 22 percent of GB snaps, taken 29 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 8 times for 42 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 7 times for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 1 time for -2 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.

He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.

That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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 3 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.

Colby Parkinson was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Colby Parkinson scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Kaleb Johnson 0.9, 7.8 a game between them.

Colby Parkinson finished TE17 and Kaleb Johnson RB115, which are two different ladders.

Colby Parkinson is a tight end and Kaleb Johnson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kaleb Johnson is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

What would change the answer

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