Should I start Julius Chestnut or Emmett Johnson in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 6:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Emmett Johnson: he has been on the field this season, 28 percent of the snaps, and Julius Chestnut 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.
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- Overall rank
- 164
RB58 · KC · bye 5
- Overall rank
- 222
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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 Julius Chestnut, and the board ranks him 164th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Emmett Johnson, and the board ranks him 222nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Julius Chestnut is 0.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is 60 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 through Week 6
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Julius Chestnut this season.
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 Julius Chestnut played 17 games and scored 4.0 PPR points, 0.2 a game, finishing RB125.
He carried 11 times for 40 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 more yards.
That came to 0.6 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry.
He was on the field for 4 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.
Byes and availability
Emmett Johnson is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Julius Chestnut.
Both players in full
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