Should I start David Njoku or Josh Oliver in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 7:01 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Josh Oliver: 55 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against David Njoku's 33 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
TE · LAC · on bye this week
2025 vs rec yds line 3-9
- Overall rank
- 287
TE · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs anytime td line 3-12
- Overall rank
- 293
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on David Njoku, and the board ranks him 287th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Oliver, and the board ranks him 293rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for David Njoku, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Josh Oliver, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 2, David Njoku has been on the field for 33 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.
In Week 1 against ARI he caught 5 of 5 targets for 58 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against LV he caught 1 of 3 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
Through Week 3, Josh Oliver has been on the field for 55 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 3.6 air yards.
In Week 1 against GB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against CHI he caught 1 of 1 target for 24 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against TB he was not given the ball.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 David Njoku played 12 games and scored 86.3 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing TE34.
He caught 33 of 48 targets for 293 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.
That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 8.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 64 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Josh Oliver played 15 games and scored 55.0 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE49.
He caught 15 of 19 targets for 160 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.
That came to 1.3 targets a game, a 79 percent catch rate and 10.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Josh Oliver was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 David Njoku scored 7.2 PPR points a game and Josh Oliver 3.7, 3.5 a game between them.
David Njoku finished TE34 that year and Josh Oliver TE49.
David Njoku had 29 more targets than Josh Oliver, 48 to 19.
David Njoku had 133 more receiving yards than Josh Oliver, 293 to 160.
This season Josh Oliver holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 33 percent.
This season David Njoku holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 7 percent.
Byes and availability
David Njoku is off in Week 7 and Josh Oliver in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
David Njoku is listed as ir on the injury report.
Josh Oliver is listed as ir on the injury report.
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