Should I start Juwan Johnson or Kirk Cousins in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 7:46 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Kirk Cousins: 95 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 Kirk Cousins?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Kirk Cousins projects 145 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.5 a game over 10 games), Juwan Johnson 96 (9.6 a game over 10 games).

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

Juwan Johnson

TE11 · NO · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection: 8.5 pts a game

Kirk Cousins

QB12 · LV · bye 13

2026 vs pass yds line 5-1

Overall rank: 87

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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 Juwan Johnson, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kirk Cousins, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Juwan Johnson's market-based projection is 8.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 81st highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kirk Cousins is 16.7 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 8 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

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.

Through Week 6, Kirk Cousins has been on the field for 98 percent of LV snaps, dropped back 221 times and thrown 8.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 40 of 221 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 4 against KC he completed 31 of 49 passes for 365 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

In Week 5 against NE he completed 19 of 28 passes for 243 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 6 against BUF he completed 23 of 41 passes for 313 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Kirk Cousins played 10 games and scored 108.5 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing QB35.

He threw for 1721 yards on 269 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 7 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 26.9 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Juwan Johnson was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kirk Cousins scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Juwan Johnson 10.6, 0.3 a game between them.

Juwan Johnson finished TE8 and Kirk Cousins QB35, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Juwan Johnson is off in Week 8 and Kirk Cousins in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Juwan Johnson for Kirk Cousins?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Kirk Cousins projects 145 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.5 a game over 10 games), Juwan Johnson 96 (9.6 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Kirk Cousins for Juwan Johnson?
No. Keep Kirk Cousins: he projects 145 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.5 a game over 10 games), Juwan Johnson 96 (9.6 a game over 10 games).