Start Samaje Perine or Roschon Johnson? Week 5

Our Week 5 call

Start Samaje Perine over Roschon Johnson in Week 5.

Market-based projections have Samaje Perine at 4.7 points and Roschon Johnson at 4.3, a gap of 0.5. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. Roschon Johnson's number is scaled up from a partial market: not every stat the position needs is posted yet, so the rest is estimated from what is.

What the market projects

Player markets imply 4.7 fantasy points for Samaje Perine, with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

The market has Samaje Perine at 14.5 rushing yards, with a 18% chance to score a touchdown (16 and 15 market sources).

Player markets imply 4.3 fantasy points for Roschon Johnson, with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

The market has Roschon Johnson at 16.5 rushing yards, with a 17% chance to score a touchdown (4 and 15 market sources).

That puts Samaje Perine 0.5 points ahead of Roschon Johnson on the market projections.

Injury status

Samaje Perine is not on the injury report.

Roschon Johnson is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 5

Through Week 4, Samaje Perine played 34 percent of CIN snaps, took 16 percent of the carries, drew 5 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

Samaje Perine, Week 1 against TB: 18 of 64 snaps, 5 carries for 20 yards, 3 targets and 3 catches for 30 yards.

Samaje Perine, Week 2 against HOU: 24 of 60 snaps, 2 carries for 6 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 16 yards.

Samaje Perine, Week 3 against PIT: 18 of 57 snaps, 3 carries for 9 yards, 3 targets and 1 catch for 5 yards.

Samaje Perine, Week 4 against JAX: 27 of 76 snaps, 3 carries for 7 yards, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Through Week 4, Roschon Johnson played 7 percent of CHI snaps, took 5 percent of the carries, drew 2 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

Roschon Johnson, Week 2 against MIN: 1 of 74 snaps, 0 carries for 0 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Roschon Johnson, Week 4 against NYJ: 10 of 93 snaps, 4 carries for 16 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 7 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

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

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

He was on the field for 34 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

In 2025, Roschon Johnson played 7 games for CHI and scored 1.7 PPR points, 0.2 a game, finishing RB134.

He ran 2 times for 17 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 yards.

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

Their other Week 5 calls

• Start Blake Corum over Samaje Perine.
• Start Brian Robinson over Samaje Perine.
• Start Samaje Perine over Chris Rodriguez Jr..
• Start Brian Robinson over Roschon Johnson.
• Start Chris Rodriguez Jr. over Roschon Johnson.
• Start Roschon Johnson over Dameon Pierce.