Should I start Dylan Sampson or Kaleb Johnson in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 6:41 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kaleb Johnson: he has been on the field this season, 15 percent of the snaps, and Dylan Sampson has no snap on record yet. 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.
RB50 · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs anytime td line 2-13
- Overall rank
- 151
RB52 · GB · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 3.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 155
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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 Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kaleb Johnson, and the board ranks him 155th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Dylan Sampson is 1.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. 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 Kaleb Johnson is 1.4 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.
Dylan Sampson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 6
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Dylan Sampson this season.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Dylan Sampson played 15 games and scored 87.6 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing RB55.
He carried 65 times for 175 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 271 more yards.
That came to 4.3 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 25 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Dylan Sampson was available for 5 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Dylan Sampson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Kaleb Johnson 0.9, 5.0 a game between them.
Dylan Sampson finished RB55 that year and Kaleb Johnson RB115.
Dylan Sampson had 37 more carries than Kaleb Johnson, 65 to 28.
Dylan Sampson had 32 more catches than Kaleb Johnson, 33 to 1.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Dylan Sampson is listed as ir on the injury report.
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