Should I start Ty Johnson or Kyle Pitts Sr. in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ty Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kyle Pitts Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

Kyle Pitts Sr.'s market-based projection is 7.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based 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, 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.

Through Week 5, Kyle Pitts Sr. has been on the field for 55 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NO he caught 3 of 3 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. played 17 games and scored 210.8 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing TE2.

He caught 88 of 118 targets for 928 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. scored 12.4 PPR points a game and Ty Johnson 5.9, 6.5 a game between them.

Ty Johnson finished RB47 and Kyle Pitts Sr. TE2, which are two different ladders.

Ty Johnson is a running back and Kyle Pitts Sr. a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Ty Johnson is off in Week 7 and Kyle Pitts Sr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Ty Johnson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.