Should I start Theo Johnson or Darnell Washington in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Theo Johnson, and the board ranks him 157th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darnell Washington, and the board ranks him 165th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Theo Johnson's market-based projection is 1.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 109th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Darnell Washington is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Theo Johnson has been on the field for 36 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 10.8 air yards.

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

In Week 4 against ARI he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against WAS he caught 2 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 25 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Theo Johnson played 15 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 8.5 a game, finishing TE18.

He caught 45 of 74 targets for 528 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 4.9 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Darnell Washington was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Theo Johnson scored 8.5 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 3.9 a game between them.

Theo Johnson finished TE18 that year and Darnell Washington TE39.

Theo Johnson had 31 more targets than Darnell Washington, 74 to 43.

Theo Johnson had 164 more receiving yards than Darnell Washington, 528 to 364.

This season Darnell Washington holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 36 percent.

This season Darnell Washington holds the bigger target share, 10 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Darnell Washington is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Theo Johnson.

What would change the answer

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