Should I start Tyjae Spears or Emmett Johnson in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 6:46 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Tyjae Spears: 39 percent of the snaps and 8 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Emmett Johnson's 25 percent of the snaps and 6 percent of the carries. 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.
RB64 · TEN · on bye this week
2026 vs carries line 1-5
- Overall rank
- 228
RB65 · KC · bye 5
- Overall rank
- 229
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The gap
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Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyjae Spears, and the board ranks him 228th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Emmett Johnson, and the board ranks him 229th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Tyjae Spears, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Emmett Johnson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 6, Tyjae Spears has been on the field for 42 percent of TEN snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have come 2.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 4 against BAL he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -1 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against HOU he carried 2 times for 0 yards, caught 9 of 9 targets for 28 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Emmett Johnson has been on the field for 26 percent of KC snaps, taken 11 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 0 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 16 targets have come 1.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 6 against LAC he carried 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against SEA he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against DEN he carried 1 time for 15 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 128 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tyjae Spears played 13 games and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.
He carried 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 more yards.
That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 3-4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 46 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 Tyjae Spears holds the bigger snap share, 42 percent against 26 percent.
This season Tyjae Spears holds the bigger share of the carries, 14 percent against 11 percent.
Byes and availability
Tyjae Spears is off in Week 9 and Emmett Johnson in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
Tyjae Spears is listed as out on the injury report.
Both players in full
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