Should I start Quentin Johnston or J.K. Dobbins in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Quentin Johnston, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on J.K. Dobbins, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Quentin Johnston's market-based projection is 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 234 players with a market-based projection.

The market has J.K. Dobbins at 6.7 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.

J.K. Dobbins's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Quentin Johnston has been on the field for 81 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 13.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against SEA he carried 1 time for -4 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against KC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LAR he caught 4 of 4 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, J.K. Dobbins has been on the field for 38 percent of DEN snaps, taken 50 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 8 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have come 1.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against SEA he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against ARI he carried 6 times for 23 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against KC he carried 7 times for 13 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Quentin Johnston played 14 games and scored 171.2 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR34.

He caught 51 of 85 targets for 735 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 77 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 J.K. Dobbins played 10 games and scored 115.9 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing RB43.

He carried 153 times for 772 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 11 of 14 targets for 37 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Quentin Johnston was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Quentin Johnston scored 12.2 PPR points a game and J.K. Dobbins 11.6, 0.6 a game between them.

Quentin Johnston finished WR34 and J.K. Dobbins RB43, which are two different ladders.

Quentin Johnston is a wide receiver and J.K. Dobbins a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Quentin Johnston is off in Week 7 and J.K. Dobbins in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

J.K. Dobbins has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.