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Should I start Roschon Johnson or Kayshon Boutte in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 4:11 AM ET.

Start Kayshon Boutte: 54 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Roschon Johnson's 16 percent of the snaps and 8 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.

RB40 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
5.5 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
149

WR64 · HOU · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Market-based projection
4.7 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
150

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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 Roschon Johnson, and the board ranks him 149th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kayshon Boutte, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Roschon Johnson is 2.0 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 Kayshon Boutte is 1.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Roschon Johnson has been on the field for 16 percent of CHI snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 3 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 2.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 4 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he carried 5 times for 6 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he carried 13 times for 51 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Kayshon Boutte has been on the field for 58 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 11.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 3 of 4 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 38 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against JAX he caught 2 of 3 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Roschon Johnson played 7 games and scored 1.7 PPR points, 0.2 a game, finishing RB134.

He carried 2 times for 17 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.3 carries a game at 9 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 1 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Kayshon Boutte played 14 games and scored 124.1 PPR points, 8.9 a game, finishing WR51.

He caught 33 of 46 targets for 551 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 16.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kayshon Boutte was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kayshon Boutte scored 8.9 PPR points a game and Roschon Johnson 0.2, 8.6 a game between them.

Roschon Johnson finished RB134 and Kayshon Boutte WR51, which are two different ladders.

Roschon Johnson is a running back and Kayshon Boutte a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Roschon Johnson is off in Week 10 and Kayshon Boutte in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

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