Start Roschon Johnson. Johnson is projected for 6.9 PPR points vs 6.2 for Samaje Perine, and faces the 16th-softest defense against RBs this week.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Roschon Johnson RB · CHI | Samaje Perine RB · CIN | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 6.9 | 6.2 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 1.9 | 5.7 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 9.9 | 7.2 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs NE | vs BAL |
| Opponent vs. position | 16th-softest (20.7 pts/g allowed) | 6th-toughest (18.5 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 20% carry share (last 3) | 31% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | RB | RB |
| Our call | SIT · Bench | SIT · Bench |
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Start Roschon Johnson. Johnson projects for 6.9 PPR points vs NE, against 6.2 for Samaje Perine vs BAL: a 0.7-point edge.
The projection is the average of every source that carries each player this week, and a player listed Out or Doubtful is never the start.
Roschon Johnson is projected to score more: 6.9 PPR points to 6.2 for Samaje Perine.
The sources range from 1.9 to 9.9 for Johnson and from 5.7 to 7.2 for Perine. The ranges overlap, so Perine outscoring Johnson is a realistic result.
Samaje Perine is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Perine at 5.7 PPR points, against 1.9 for Roschon Johnson.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Roschon Johnson has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Johnson at 9.9 PPR points, against 7.2 for Samaje Perine.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Roschon Johnson plays NE and Samaje Perine plays BAL in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Johnson faces the 16th-softest defense against RBs and Perine faces the 6th-toughest defense against RBs, so Roschon Johnson has the softer matchup.
Each projection already accounts for the opponent, so a soft matchup is a tiebreaker, not a reason to bench the higher projection.
Over his recent games Roschon Johnson has drawn 20% of his team's carries, and Samaje Perine 31% of his team's carries.
Samaje Perine has the bigger role, and volume is the steadiest thing a projection rests on.
These numbers are in PPR. Full PPR adds a point per catch, so it helps whichever player sees more targets.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Roschon Johnson nor Samaje Perine has an injury designation for Week 7.
Designations change through the week, so check again before kickoff; this page updates with each refresh.
Each figure is the average of the projection sources that carry the player this week: StatChasers, Sleeper, ESPN, numberFire, FFToday and the betting markets (sportsbook player props). Roschon Johnson is projected by 5 of them and Samaje Perine by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.