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Should I start DeMario Douglas or Tez Johnson in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 6:26 PM ET.

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Week 8 verdict

Start

WR · NE · at MIA

Market projects
6.8
recent weeks avg
MIA D vs WR
23.8
3rd fewest to WRs (2026)
Upside
Moderate
42 of 100 at WR
Snap share
55%
Through Week 7
Target share
16%
Through Week 7
Sit

WR · TB · vs ATL

Market projects
5.1
recent weeks avg
ATL D vs WR
34.4
11th most to WRs (2026)
Upside
Moderate
57 of 100 at WR
Snap share
38%
Through Week 7
Target share
8%
Through Week 7
Start Douglas or Johnson? The full Week 8 breakdown

Start DeMario Douglas: 57 percent of the snaps and 19 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tez Johnson's 45 percent of the snaps and 8 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.

WR50 · NE · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 2-5

Market-based projection
8.9 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
120

WR · TB · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-6

Overall rank
not on the board

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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 DeMario Douglas, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Tez Johnson at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for DeMario Douglas is 1.9 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.

No season market is posted for Tez Johnson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 55 percent of NE snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 10.3 air yards.

In Week 5 against LV he caught 4 of 5 targets for 65 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 7 of 8 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Tez Johnson has been on the field for 38 percent of TB snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 19.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against DAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 64 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against PIT he caught 2 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CAR he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 33 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 DeMario Douglas played 17 games and scored 95.8 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing WR65.

He caught 31 of 46 targets for 447 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 26 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tez Johnson played 16 games and scored 92.4 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR67.

He caught 28 of 44 targets for 322 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.8 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 12 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

DeMario Douglas was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tez Johnson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and DeMario Douglas 5.6, 0.1 a game between them.

DeMario Douglas finished WR65 that year and Tez Johnson WR67.

DeMario Douglas had 2 more targets than Tez Johnson, 46 to 44.

DeMario Douglas had 125 more receiving yards than Tez Johnson, 447 to 322.

This season DeMario Douglas holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 38 percent.

This season DeMario Douglas holds the bigger target share, 16 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

DeMario Douglas is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Tez Johnson.

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