Should I start Jonathan Taylor or Quentin Johnston in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jonathan Taylor, and the board ranks him 110th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 4.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Quentin Johnston, and the board ranks him 111th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jonathan Taylor is 5.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Quentin Johnston's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 113th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Jonathan Taylor's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Jonathan Taylor has been on the field for 78 percent of IND snaps, taken 67 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 47 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 64 third down targets, had 15 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against TEN he carried 21 times for 94 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 57 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against MIN he carried 18 times for 95 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against JAX he carried 8 times for 23 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jonathan Taylor played 17 games and scored 362.3 PPR points, 21.3 a game, finishing RB4.

He carried 323 times for 1585 yards and 18 touchdowns, and caught 46 of 55 targets for 378 more yards.

That came to 19.0 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 84 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Jonathan Taylor was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jonathan Taylor scored 21.3 PPR points a game and Quentin Johnston 12.2, 9.1 a game between them.

Jonathan Taylor finished RB4 and Quentin Johnston WR34, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Jonathan Taylor is off in Week 13 and Quentin Johnston in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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