Should I start Jameis Winston or Juwan Johnson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 25, 9:51 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Jameis Winston: 85 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Juwan Johnson's 68 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets. 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.

Should I drop Juwan Johnson for Jameis Winston?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Jameis Winston projects 124 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (13.8 a game over 9 games), Juwan Johnson 86 (9.6 a game over 9 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Jameis Winston

QB25 · NYG · bye 8

2026 vs pass yds line 2-3

Market-based projection: 14.6 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 120

Juwan Johnson

TE19 · NO · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection: 8.2 pts a game

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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 Jameis Winston, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Juwan Johnson, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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

Juwan Johnson's market-based projection is 8.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 105th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jameis Winston has been on the field for 88 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 178 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 178 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 4 against ARI he completed 18 of 29 passes for 250 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

In Week 5 against WAS he completed 33 of 54 passes for 326 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 28 yards.

In Week 6 against NO he completed 14 of 26 passes for 152 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

Through Week 6, Juwan Johnson has been on the field for 68 percent of NO snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against ATL he caught 6 of 8 targets for 59 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 4 of 5 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jameis Winston played 3 games and scored 45.3 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing QB46.

He threw for 567 yards on 66 attempts with 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, and ran for 23 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 22.0 attempts a game at 8.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Juwan Johnson played 17 games and scored 179.9 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing TE8.

He caught 77 of 102 targets for 889 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 12 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Juwan Johnson was available for 14 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jameis Winston scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Juwan Johnson 10.6, 4.5 a game between them.

Jameis Winston finished QB46 and Juwan Johnson TE8, which are two different ladders.

Jameis Winston is a quarterback and Juwan Johnson a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

Jameis Winston has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Juwan Johnson for Jameis Winston?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jameis Winston projects 124 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (13.8 a game over 9 games), Juwan Johnson 86 (9.6 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop Jameis Winston for Juwan Johnson?
No. Keep Jameis Winston: he projects 124 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (13.8 a game over 9 games), Juwan Johnson 86 (9.6 a game over 9 games).

Should I drop Juwan Johnson?