Should I start Samaje Perine or Kameron Johnson in Week 8?
Updated Oct 28, 9:56 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Samaje Perine: 37 percent of the snaps and 33 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Kameron Johnson's 5 percent of the snaps and 3 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.
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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.
RB42 · CIN · bye 6
2026 vs carries line 2-4
- Market-based projection
- 6.6 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 130
WR · TB · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-7
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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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 Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Kameron Johnson at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Samaje Perine is 2.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.
No season market is posted for Kameron Johnson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 7
Through Week 7, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 35 percent of CIN snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 36 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.
In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against MIA he carried 14 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against BAL he carried 4 times for 16 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 7, Kameron Johnson has been on the field for 5 percent of TB snaps, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have averaged 1.0 air yards.
In Week 4 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against DAL he was not given the ball.
In Week 7 against CAR he was not given the ball.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.
He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.
That came to 5.6 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Kameron Johnson played 17 games and scored 17.7 PPR points, 1.0 a game.
He caught 4 of 7 targets for 64 yards and 1 touchdown, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 57 percent catch rate and 16.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 9 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kameron Johnson was available for 2 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Kameron Johnson 1.0, 4.2 a game between them.
Samaje Perine is a running back and Kameron Johnson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Samaje Perine is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Kameron Johnson.
Both players in full
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