Should I start Kaleb Johnson or Devaughn Vele in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kaleb Johnson, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Devaughn Vele, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kaleb Johnson is 8.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Devaughn Vele's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 216 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Kaleb Johnson has been on the field for 25 percent of GB snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

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

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.

In Week 9 against NE he carried 14 times for 68 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 9, Devaughn Vele has been on the field for 92 percent of NO snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 75 third down targets, had 3 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 52 targets have averaged 9.9 air yards.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 3 of 6 targets for 42 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PIT he caught 5 of 5 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against CLE he caught 2 of 4 targets for 17 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 Devaughn Vele played 13 games and scored 66.3 PPR points, 5.1 a game, finishing WR95.

He caught 25 of 39 targets for 293 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Devaughn Vele was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Devaughn Vele scored 5.1 PPR points a game and Kaleb Johnson 0.9, 4.2 a game between them.

Kaleb Johnson finished RB115 and Devaughn Vele WR95, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Kaleb Johnson is off in Week 11 and Devaughn Vele in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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