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Should I start Juwan Johnson or Quinshon Judkins in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 11:56 PM ET.

Start Juwan Johnson: 69 percent of the snaps and 19 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Quinshon Judkins's 56 percent of the snaps and 64 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.

TE9 · NO · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection
10.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
64

RB26 · CLE · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Market-based projection
10.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
65

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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 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Quinshon Judkins, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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

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

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Juwan Johnson has been on the field for 70 percent of NO snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 32 targets have averaged 5.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against LV he caught 8 of 8 targets for 53 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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.

Through Week 5, Quinshon Judkins has been on the field for 60 percent of CLE snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 43 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 18 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 17 times for 53 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 14 times for 44 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 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.

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins played 15 games and scored 169.8 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB26.

He carried 230 times for 827 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 26 of 36 targets for 171 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Juwan Johnson was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Juwan Johnson 10.6, 0.7 a game between them.

Juwan Johnson finished TE8 and Quinshon Judkins RB26, which are two different ladders.

Juwan Johnson is a tight end and Quinshon Judkins 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 and Quinshon Judkins in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Quinshon Judkins is listed as out on the injury report.

Both players in full

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