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Should I start Kaleb Johnson or Jeremy McNichols in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 11:11 AM ET.

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  • : Jeremy McNichols: Questionable to IR (Foot) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Kaleb Johnson: 19 percent of the snaps and 28 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jeremy McNichols's 19 percent of the snaps and 24 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.

RB45 · GB · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 1-6

Overall rank
186

RB · WAS · bye 7

2025 vs anytime td line 1-16

Overall rank
296

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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 Kaleb Johnson, and the board ranks him 186th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 296th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kaleb Johnson is 2.1 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 9, Kaleb Johnson has been on the field for 25 percent of GB snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 9 against NE he carried 14 times for 68 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 19 percent of WAS snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 1.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he carried 5 times for 21 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.

He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.

That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 33 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jeremy McNichols was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jeremy McNichols scored 4.3 PPR points a game and Kaleb Johnson 0.9, 3.4 a game between them.

Kaleb Johnson finished RB115 that year and Jeremy McNichols RB58.

Jeremy McNichols had 16 more carries than Kaleb Johnson, 44 to 28.

Jeremy McNichols had 24 more catches than Kaleb Johnson, 25 to 1.

This season Kaleb Johnson holds the bigger snap share, 25 percent against 19 percent.

This season Kaleb Johnson holds the bigger share of the carries, 33 percent against 24 percent.

Byes and availability

Kaleb Johnson is off in Week 11 and Jeremy McNichols in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jeremy McNichols is listed as ir on the injury report.

Both players in full

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