Samaje Perine or Roschon Johnson: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Samaje Perine: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 185th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Roschon Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 191st overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Samaje Perine at 4.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 162nd highest figure of the 218 players the market prices.

The market has Roschon Johnson at 4.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 15 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 34 percent of CIN snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against HOU he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Roschon Johnson has been on the field for 7 percent of CHI snaps, taken 5 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 5.0 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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 4.5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 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 8.5 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 1 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Samaje Perine was available for 8 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Roschon Johnson 0.2, 5.0 a game between them.

Samaje Perine finished RB57 that year and Roschon Johnson RB134.

Samaje Perine had 82 more carries than Roschon Johnson, 84 to 2.

Samaje Perine had 17 more catches than Roschon Johnson, 17 to 0.

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger snap share, 34 percent against 7 percent.

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger share of the carries, 16 percent against 5 percent.

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.