Should I start Kendre Miller or Roschon Johnson in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 4:21 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Kendre Miller over Roschon Johnson

- Market projects
- 8.2
- fantasy pts
- PIT D vs RB
- 20.4
- 15th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 30%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 6

- Market projects
- 4.7
- recent weeks avg
- NE D vs RB
- 20.6
- 16th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 22%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 7%
- Through Week 6
Start Kendre Miller: 34 percent of the snaps and 49 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Roschon Johnson's 28 percent of the snaps and 21 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.
RB11 · NO · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 8.1 pts a game
RB42 · CHI · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 5.5 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 124
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The gap
- Board size299 draftable players
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 Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Roschon Johnson, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Kendre Miller's market-based projection is 8.1 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 45th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Roschon Johnson is 2.1 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.
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, Kendre Miller has been on the field for 30 percent of NO snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 4 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 34 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 4 against ATL he carried 6 times for 9 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against MIN he carried 10 times for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against NYG he carried 20 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Roschon Johnson has been on the field for 22 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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Kendre Miller played 7 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB79.
He carried 47 times for 193 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 more yards.
That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.
He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Both were available for 7 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Kendre Miller scored 4.8 PPR points a game and Roschon Johnson 0.2, 4.5 a game between them.
Kendre Miller finished RB79 that year and Roschon Johnson RB134.
Kendre Miller had 45 more carries than Roschon Johnson, 47 to 2.
Kendre Miller had 5 more catches than Roschon Johnson, 5 to 0.
This season Kendre Miller holds the bigger snap share, 30 percent against 22 percent.
This season Kendre Miller holds the bigger share of the carries, 39 percent against 16 percent.
Byes and availability
Kendre Miller is off in Week 8 and Roschon Johnson in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Roschon Johnson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
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