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Juwan Johnson
Juwan Johnson is a tight end for the New Orleans Saints. Depth chart: TE1.
Scouting report
Juwan Johnson: the full picture
Juwan Johnson at a glance
Juwan Johnson is a 30-year-old tight end for the New Orleans Saints, listed at 6'4" and 245 pounds. Johnson entered the league undrafted in 2020 out of Oregon and is now in a 7th NFL season.
2026 projection
The Gridiron Value season model projects Johnson for 126.4 PPR points in 2026, which ranks TE19 at the position and works out to 8.3 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 2 games of 2026, Johnson has scored 25.0 PPR points, or 12.5 per game. That is 19.8% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Johnson would finish with about 213 points, ahead of the 126.4 projected. It is a small sample, so expect that pace to settle. The best week so far is 14.4 points in Week 1 against DET, the TE7 finish that week. Johnson has cleared the 7-point mark we count as a usable TE start in 2 of 2 games, a 100% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 33 qualified tight ends of 2026, Johnson ranks in the 86th percentile in receiving yards, the 86th percentile in yards per target and the 71st percentile in average separation. Two of the 6 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 38th percentile in target share.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Johnson has finished as TE92 in 2020, TE47 in 2021, TE15 in 2022, TE26 in 2023, TE17 in 2024 and TE8 in 2025. One of those 6 seasons ended inside the top twelve. The high-water mark is 179.9 PPR points in 2025. Across 81 regular-season games on record, the totals read 230 receptions, 2,631 receiving yards and 22 receiving touchdowns.
Juwan Johnson by the numbers
Johnson has been the highest-scoring tight end of the week 2 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 12 times and finished in the top twelve 24 times. The career high is 23.0 PPR points, set in Week 17 of 2023 against TB, the top TE score of that week. In all, Johnson has reached 20 points in 3 games, 4% of career appearances.
Contract
Johnson is playing on a three-year, $30.8 million contract signed with the New Orleans Saints in 2025, an average of $10.3 million per year with $21.3 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2027 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Johnson carries a GV stock price of 4,923, which ranks 84th overall and TE13 among tight ends out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Johnson 104th overall. Value has moved down 0.5 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Dallas Goedert, Darren Waller and George Kittle. See where Johnson sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 126.4
- PPR / game
- 8.3
Juwan Johnson fantasy outlook
Juwan Johnson enters the 2026 season with NO and ranks TE17 and #139 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 128.1 PPR points across 15.2 games, or 8.4 points per game, placing the expected outcome in a strong starter tier. The preseason depth chart lists Juwan Johnson as TE1, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Juwan Johnson produced 179.9 PPR points in 17 games (10.6 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 71%, with a 67% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.
Week 1 projection
Juwan Johnson is projected for 11.5 PPR points on the road at DET in week 1, with a likely range of 0.0 to 26.2.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is down 0.5 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 51.7
- Dynasty
- 47.7
- Superflex redraft
- 61.9
- Superflex dynasty
- 61.0
- TE premium dynasty
- 47.3
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | NO | 2 | 11 | 7 | 120 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25.0 |
| 2025 | NO | 17 | 102 | 77 | 889 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 179.9 |
| 2024 | NO | 15 | 66 | 50 | 548 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 122.8 |
| 2023 | NO | 13 | 59 | 37 | 368 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 97.8 |
| 2022 | NO | 16 | 65 | 42 | 508 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 134.8 |
| 2021 | NO | 13 | 22 | 13 | 159 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 52.9 |
| 2020 | NO | 5 | 10 | 4 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.9 |
Tight ends ranked near Juwan Johnson
- AJ Barner TE16 · 131.2 PPR
- Dalton Schultz TE17 · 130.8 PPR
- Jake Ferguson TE18 · 129.6 PPR
- Mike Gesicki TE20 · 121.6 PPR
- Cade Otton TE21 · 120.6 PPR
- T.J. Hockenson TE22 · 118.9 PPR
New Orleans Saints fantasy players
- Tyler Shough QB · 241.5 PPR
- Chris Olave WR · 228.6 PPR
- Travis Etienne RB · 167.2 PPR
- Jordyn Tyson WR · 102.2 PPR
- Alvin Kamara RB · 102.1 PPR
- Devaughn Vele WR · 100.0 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-09-24.