Ty Johnson or Tucker Kraft: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ty Johnson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tucker Kraft: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 48th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Ty Johnson is 8.6 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 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.

Tucker Kraft's market-based projection is 11.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 68th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Ty Johnson has been on the field for 25 percent of BUF snaps, taken 1 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 21 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 5 against LAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 72 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Tucker Kraft has been on the field for 81 percent of GB snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 2 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against ATL he caught 4 of 8 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Tucker Kraft played 8 games and scored 117.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE24.

He caught 32 of 44 targets for 489 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 5-6 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 15.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ty Johnson was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tucker Kraft scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Ty Johnson 5.9, 8.8 a game between them.

Ty Johnson finished RB47 and Tucker Kraft TE24, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Tucker Kraft is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Ty Johnson.

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.