Should I start Jacob Saylors or Emmett Johnson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacob Saylors, and the board ranks him 181st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Emmett Johnson, and the board ranks him 202nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jacob Saylors is 0.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 3, Jacob Saylors has been on the field for 3 percent of DET snaps, taken 0 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 6 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.

In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Emmett Johnson has been on the field for 27 percent of KC snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 3.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against MIA he carried 6 times for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LV he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAC he carried 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jacob Saylors played 16 games and scored 1.1 PPR points, 0.1 a game, finishing RB136.

He carried 2 times for 11 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.1 carries a game at 6 yards a carry.

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

Emmett Johnson is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Emmett Johnson holds the bigger snap share, 27 percent against 3 percent.

This season Emmett Johnson holds the bigger share of the carries, 14 percent against 0 percent.

Byes and availability

Jacob Saylors is off in Week 6 and Emmett Johnson in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.