Should I start Roschon Johnson or Darren Waller in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Roschon Johnson, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darren Waller, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Roschon Johnson is 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Darren Waller's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Roschon 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, Roschon Johnson has been on the field for 22 percent of CHI snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 3 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 2.9 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against ATL he carried 13 times for 51 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Darren Waller has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 8.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against CLE he caught 5 of 8 targets for 51 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 3 of 6 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Darren Waller played 9 games and scored 88.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing TE33.

He caught 24 of 34 targets for 283 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 45 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Darren Waller was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Darren Waller scored 9.9 PPR points a game and Roschon Johnson 0.2, 9.6 a game between them.

Roschon Johnson finished RB134 and Darren Waller TE33, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Roschon Johnson is off in Week 10 and Darren Waller in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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