Should I start Travis Kelce or Ty Johnson in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Travis Kelce, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ty Johnson, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Travis Kelce's market-based projection is 11.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 48th highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Ty Johnson is 8.0 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 7, Travis Kelce has been on the field for 78 percent of KC snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 35 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

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

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 4 of 5 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against SEA he caught 4 of 8 targets for 44 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

In 2025 Travis Kelce played 17 games and scored 193.2 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing TE3.

He caught 76 of 108 targets for 851 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.4 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Travis Kelce scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Ty Johnson 5.9, 5.5 a game between them.

Travis Kelce finished TE3 and Ty Johnson RB47, which are two different ladders.

Travis Kelce is a tight end and Ty Johnson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Travis Kelce is off in Week 5 and Ty Johnson in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Ty Johnson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.