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Should I start Juwan Johnson or Kyle Juszczyk in Week 7?

Updated Oct 23, 1:21 AM ET.

Start Juwan Johnson: 68 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kyle Juszczyk's 51 percent of the snaps and 0 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

TE16 · NO · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection
8.4 pts a game

RB34 · SF · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Overall rank
106

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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 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Juszczyk, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Juwan Johnson's market-based projection is 8.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 105th highest figure of the 222 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kyle Juszczyk is 6.2 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Kyle Juszczyk'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, Kyle Juszczyk has been on the field for 49 percent of SF snaps, taken 0 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 10.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DEN he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against WAS he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

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.

The season feed carries no line for Kyle Juszczyk in the last completed season.

Side by side

Juwan Johnson is a tight end and Kyle Juszczyk a running back, 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. No bye is listed for Kyle Juszczyk.

What would change the answer

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

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