Colston Loveland or Ty Johnson: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colston Loveland: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ty Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Colston Loveland's market-based projection is 9.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 83rd highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Ty Johnson is 6.8 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 85 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 6 of 9 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Ty Johnson has been on the field for 25 percent of BUF snaps, taken 1 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 21 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAC he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 72 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Ty Johnson played 17 games and scored 100.3 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing RB47.

He carried 50 times for 200 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 33 targets for 263 more yards.

That came to 2.9 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ty Johnson was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Colston Loveland scored 10.3 PPR points a game and Ty Johnson 5.9, 4.4 a game between them.

Colston Loveland finished TE12 and Ty Johnson RB47, which are two different ladders.

Colston Loveland is a tight end and Ty Johnson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Colston Loveland is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Ty Johnson.

What would change the answer

Ty Johnson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.