Kaleb Johnson or Darius Cooper: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kaleb Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Darius Cooper: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Kaleb Johnson at 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 132nd highest figure of the 221 players the market prices.

No season market is posted for Darius Cooper, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

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, Darius Cooper has been on the field for 41 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.

In Week 2 against TEN he caught 2 of 3 targets for 26 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against CHI he was not given the ball.

In Week 4 against LAR he caught 3 of 7 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Darius Cooper played 13 games and scored 18.2 PPR points, 1.4 a game.

He caught 9 of 11 targets for 92 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 82 percent catch rate and 10.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 19 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Darius Cooper was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Darius Cooper scored 1.4 PPR points a game and Kaleb Johnson 0.9, 0.5 a game between them.

Kaleb Johnson is a running back and Darius Cooper a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Darius Cooper has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.