Should I start Evan Engram or Kaleb Johnson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Evan Engram, and the board ranks him 125th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kaleb Johnson, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Evan Engram's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 97th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based 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.

Kaleb 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, Evan Engram has been on the field for 57 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 4 of 4 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

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 Evan Engram played 16 games and scored 102.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing TE29.

He caught 50 of 76 targets for 461 yards and 1 touchdown, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 42 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.

Evan Engram was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Evan Engram scored 6.4 PPR points a game and Kaleb Johnson 0.9, 5.5 a game between them.

Evan Engram finished TE29 and Kaleb Johnson RB115, which are two different ladders.

Evan Engram is a tight end and Kaleb Johnson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Evan Engram is off in Week 10 and Kaleb Johnson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Kaleb Johnson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.