Evan Engram or Roschon Johnson: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Evan Engram: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 129th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Roschon Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Evan Engram's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 124th highest figure of the 176 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Roschon Johnson is 4.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 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 5

Through Week 5, Evan Engram has been on the field for 58 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 5, Roschon Johnson has been on the field for 16 percent of CHI snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 2.9 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

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 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.

Evan Engram was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Evan Engram scored 6.4 PPR points a game and Roschon Johnson 0.2, 6.2 a game between them.

Evan Engram finished TE29 and Roschon Johnson RB134, which are two different ladders.

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

What would change the answer

Roschon Johnson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.