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Should I start Roschon Johnson or Dylan Sampson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 7:26 PM ET.

Start Roschon Johnson: he has been on the field this season, 28 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.

RB48 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
5.8 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
146

RB50 · CLE · bye 11

2025 vs anytime td line 2-13

Overall rank
150

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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 Roschon Johnson, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Roschon Johnson is 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Roschon Johnson has been on the field for 22 percent of CHI snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 3 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 2.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 4 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he carried 5 times for 6 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he carried 13 times for 51 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Dylan Sampson this season.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Roschon Johnson played 7 games and scored 1.7 PPR points, 0.2 a game, finishing RB134.

He carried 2 times for 17 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.3 carries a game at 9 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 1 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Dylan Sampson was available for 8 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Dylan Sampson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Roschon Johnson 0.2, 5.6 a game between them.

Roschon Johnson finished RB134 that year and Dylan Sampson RB55.

Dylan Sampson had 63 more carries than Roschon Johnson, 65 to 2.

Dylan Sampson had 33 more catches than Roschon Johnson, 33 to 0.

Byes and availability

Roschon Johnson is off in Week 10 and Dylan Sampson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Dylan Sampson is listed as ir on the injury report.

Both players in full

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