Should I start Rico Dowdle or Roschon Johnson in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Roschon Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 154th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 131st highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Roschon Johnson is 5.5 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Roschon Johnson has been on the field for 16 percent of CHI snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 2.9 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Rico Dowdle was available for 10 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Roschon Johnson 0.2, 12.5 a game between them.

Rico Dowdle finished RB18 that year and Roschon Johnson RB134.

Rico Dowdle had 234 more carries than Roschon Johnson, 236 to 2.

Rico Dowdle had 39 more catches than Roschon Johnson, 39 to 0.

This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger snap share, 42 percent against 16 percent.

This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger share of the carries, 37 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9 and Roschon Johnson in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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