Darnell Washington or Roschon Johnson: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Darnell Washington: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Roschon Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 129th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 124th highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Roschon Johnson is 5.1 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 5

Through Week 5, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 5.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against IND he caught 2 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Roschon Johnson has been on the field for 16 percent of CHI snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 2.9 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.

He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 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.

Darnell Washington was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Darnell Washington scored 4.6 PPR points a game and Roschon Johnson 0.2, 4.3 a game between them.

Darnell Washington finished TE39 and Roschon Johnson RB134, which are two different ladders.

Darnell Washington is a tight end and Roschon Johnson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

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