Should I start Kaleb Johnson or Davante Adams in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kaleb Johnson, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Davante Adams, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kaleb Johnson is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Davante Adams is 3.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Kaleb 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, Kaleb Johnson has been on the field for 22 percent of GB snaps, taken 29 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 8 times for 42 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 7 times for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 1 time for -2 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Davante Adams has been on the field for 76 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 49 targets have averaged 15.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 4 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 7 targets for 51 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

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 3 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 Davante Adams played 14 games and scored 222.9 PPR points, 15.9 a game, finishing WR9.

He caught 60 of 114 targets for 789 yards and 14 touchdowns, with 31 red zone targets.

That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 13.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Davante Adams was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Davante Adams scored 15.9 PPR points a game and Kaleb Johnson 0.9, 15.0 a game between them.

Kaleb Johnson finished RB115 and Davante Adams WR9, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Davante Adams is listed as ir on the injury report.