Troy Franklin or Ty Johnson: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Troy Franklin: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 156th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ty Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 160th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Troy Franklin at 4.2 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 157th highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.

The market has Ty Johnson at 3.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 14 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Ty 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, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 30 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 18.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 1 of 2 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 1 of 1 target for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he was not given the ball.

Through Week 4, Ty Johnson has been on the field for 27 percent of BUF snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAC he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 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 Troy Franklin scored 10.4 PPR points a game and Ty Johnson 5.9, 4.5 a game between them.

Troy Franklin finished WR31 and Ty Johnson RB47, which are two different ladders.

Troy Franklin is a wide receiver and Ty Johnson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

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