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Should I start Keon Coleman or Ty Johnson in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 10:41 AM ET.

Start Keon Coleman: 65 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Ty Johnson's 25 percent of the snaps and 1 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.

WR52 · BUF · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 2-3

Market-based projection
7.4 pts a game

RB39 · BUF · bye 7

2025 vs anytime td line 4-13

Market-based projection
4.2 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank
141

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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 Keon Coleman, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ty Johnson, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Keon Coleman's market-based projection is 7.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Ty Johnson is 7.0 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Keon Coleman has been on the field for 64 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 14.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 6 of 7 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Ty Johnson has been on the field for 25 percent of BUF snaps, taken 1 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 21 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAC he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 72 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Keon Coleman played 13 games and scored 102.4 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR60.

He caught 38 of 59 targets for 404 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 4-5 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 64 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Ty Johnson played 17 games and scored 100.3 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing RB47.

He carried 50 times for 200 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 33 targets for 263 more yards.

That came to 2.9 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ty Johnson was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Keon Coleman scored 7.9 PPR points a game and Ty Johnson 5.9, 2.0 a game between them.

Keon Coleman finished WR60 and Ty Johnson RB47, which are two different ladders.

Keon Coleman is a wide receiver and Ty Johnson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

Ty Johnson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Both players in full

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