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Should I start Pierre Strong or Kaleb Johnson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 11:21 AM ET.

Start Pierre Strong: 49 percent of the snaps and 33 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Kaleb Johnson's 15 percent of the snaps and 23 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.

RB45 · GB · bye 11

Market-based projection
7.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
128

RB46 · GB · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 0-6

Market-based projection
3.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
130

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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 Pierre Strong, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kaleb Johnson, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Pierre Strong is 1.5 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.

The market-based projection for Kaleb Johnson is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Pierre Strong has been on the field for 49 percent of GB snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 30 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 5 times for 7 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 11 times for 28 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Kaleb Johnson has been on the field for 22 percent of GB snaps, taken 29 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 8 times for 42 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 7 times for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 1 time for -2 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong in the last completed season.

In 2025 Kaleb Johnson played 10 games and scored 8.8 PPR points, 0.9 a game, finishing RB115.

He carried 28 times for 69 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 more yards.

That came to 2.8 carries a game at 3 yards a carry and 0.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 6 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Pierre Strong holds the bigger snap share, 49 percent against 22 percent.

This season Pierre Strong holds the bigger share of the carries, 33 percent against 29 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Both players in full

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