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

Updated Oct 22, 12:36 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Pierre Strong Jr.: 49 percent of the snaps and 33 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Ty Johnson's 24 percent of the snaps and 2 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.

Should I drop Ty 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), Ty Johnson 43 (4.3 a game over 10 games).

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

Pierre Strong Jr.

RB35 · GB · bye 11

Market-based projection: 4.9 pts a game

Ty Johnson

RB · BUF · on bye this week

2026 vs anytime td line 0-4

Overall rank: 275

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The gap

Board size316 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 Pierre Strong Jr., and the board ranks him 109th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ty Johnson, and the board ranks him 275th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Pierre Strong Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.9 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 130th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Ty Johnson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 6

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.

Through Week 6, Ty Johnson has been on the field for 23 percent of BUF snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 6 against LV he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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

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.

Head to head

This season Pierre Strong Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 49 percent against 23 percent.

This season Pierre Strong Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 33 percent against 2 percent.

Byes and availability

Pierre Strong Jr. is off in Week 11 and Ty Johnson in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Ty Johnson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Ty 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), Ty Johnson 43 (4.3 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Pierre Strong Jr. for Ty 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), Ty Johnson 43 (4.3 a game over 10 games).