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Should I start Michael Pittman Jr. or Quentin Johnston in Week 6?

Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.

Updated Oct 16, 11:11 PM ET.

Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Michael Pittman Jr., so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.

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WR44 · PIT · bye 9

2025 vs rec yds line 5-12

Market-based projection
7.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank
114
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
17

WR46 · LAC · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 0-4

Market-based projection
7.6 pts a game
Draft pick
no consensus

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Also deciding this week

The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Board size317 draftable players

Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.

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Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Michael Pittman Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Quentin Johnston: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Michael Pittman Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Quentin Johnston's market-based projection is 7.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Michael Pittman Jr. has been on the field for 78 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 9.4 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 58 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CIN he caught 2 of 5 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Quentin Johnston has been on the field for 80 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 12.5 air yards.

In Week 2 against LV he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 1 of 5 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against BUF he caught 3 of 6 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SEA he carried 1 time for -4 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

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Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Michael Pittman Jr. in the last completed season.

In 2025 Quentin Johnston played 14 games and scored 171.2 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR34.

He caught 51 of 85 targets for 735 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 77 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Quentin Johnston holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 78 percent.

This season Quentin Johnston holds the bigger target share, 16 percent against 11 percent.

Byes and availability

Michael Pittman Jr. is off in Week 9 and Quentin Johnston in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Michael Pittman Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Michael Pittman Jr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

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