DeMario Douglas or Ty Johnson: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on DeMario Douglas: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ty Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 134th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price DeMario Douglas at 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 123rd highest figure of the 199 players the market prices.

The market has Ty Johnson at 7.6 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Ty Johnson's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 54 percent of NE snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.

In Week 2 against PIT he caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against JAX he caught 1 of 5 targets for 38 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Ty Johnson has been on the field for 27 percent of BUF snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAC he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

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 Ty Johnson played 17 games and scored 100.3 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing RB47.

He carried 50 times for 200 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 33 targets for 263 more yards.

That came to 2.9 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Ty Johnson scored 5.9 PPR points a game and DeMario Douglas 5.6, 0.3 a game between them.

DeMario Douglas finished WR65 and Ty Johnson RB47, which are two different ladders.

DeMario Douglas is a wide receiver and Ty Johnson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Ty Johnson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.