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Should I start Roschon Johnson or Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 8:16 PM ET.

Week 7 verdict

Start

RB · CHI · vs NE

Market projects
6.8
fantasy pts
NE D vs RB
20.6
16th most to RBs (2026)
Upside
Rising
80 of 100 at RB
Snap share
22%
Through Week 6
Target share
7%
Through Week 6
Sit

RB · GB · at DET

Market projects
4.9
fantasy pts
DET D vs RB
18.7
8th fewest to RBs (2026)
Upside
High
85 of 100 at RB
Start Johnson or Strong? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Roschon Johnson over Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 7: 6.8 to 4.9 projected PPR points. Strong faces DET, which allows the 8th fewest fantasy points to RBs.

Should I drop Roschon Johnson for Pierre Strong Jr.?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Pierre Strong Jr. projects 63 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.3 a game over 10 games), Roschon Johnson 50 (5.0 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Roschon Johnson over Pierre Strong Jr., 6.8 to 4.9 projected PPR points. So make the move after his Week 7 game.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB26 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
6.8 pts a game

RB39 · GB · bye 11

Overall rank
118

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The gap

  • Board size315 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 Roschon Johnson, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Pierre Strong Jr., and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Roschon Johnson's market-based projection is 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

The market has Pierre Strong Jr. at 4.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Pierre Strong Jr.'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 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.

Through Week 6, Pierre Strong Jr. has been on the field for 49 percent of GB snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 30 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 5 times for 7 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 11 times for 28 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 39 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.

The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong Jr. in the last completed season.

Head to head

This season Pierre Strong Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 49 percent against 22 percent.

This season Pierre Strong Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 33 percent against 16 percent.

Byes and availability

Roschon Johnson is off in Week 10 and Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Pierre Strong Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Roschon Johnson for Pierre Strong Jr.?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Pierre Strong Jr. projects 63 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.3 a game over 10 games), Roschon Johnson 50 (5.0 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Roschon Johnson over Pierre Strong Jr., 6.8 to 4.9 projected PPR points. So make the move after his Week 7 game.

  • Should I drop Pierre Strong Jr. for Roschon Johnson?

    No. Keep Pierre Strong Jr.: he projects 63 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.3 a game over 10 games), Roschon Johnson 50 (5.0 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Roschon Johnson over Pierre Strong Jr., 6.8 to 4.9 projected PPR points.

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