Emmett Johnson

Kansas City Chiefs · Running backRB2

5′10″, 202 lb · age 23 · Nebraska · 2026 draft, round 5

Week 6 stats

Sun Oct 18, vs LAC: Emmett Johnson ran 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 for 18 on 30% of snaps.

Stats through week 6; the week 7 projection below. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Full game log.

Emmett Johnson has no full prior season to anchor to, so this week’s projection leans on his 4 games of current-season usage alone — treat it as a thinner read than a veteran’s.

Week 7 projection

PPR points

4.0

RB57 this week

Rush attempts

2.6

Rushing yards

Receptions

1.1

Receiving yards

Anytime TD

11%

What a realistic week looks like

The projection is the center of this, not a prediction of one number. Eight weeks in ten he lands between 0 and 3 receptions. The shaded bars are that range. This distribution is calibrated — predicted against realized agrees within 0.012 in every decile across 49,202 checks.

Emmett Johnson snap share, game by game

Snap shareTarget share

Role is the most repeatable thing a player has. Snap share reproduces at 0.96 between halves of a season; receptions manage 0.89 and touchdowns 0.56. When these lines move, production follows — not the other way round. Snap share leaders.

Game log

Game	Opp	Snap share	Target share	Tgt	Rec	Rec yds	Car	Rush yds	TD	We said
26 wk7	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1 projected
26 wk6	LAC	30%	10.3%	3	2	18	3	6	0	1.0 +1.0
26 wk4	LV	27%	3.7%	1	1	10	0	0	0	1.1 -0.1
26 wk3	MIA	27%	0.0%	0	0	0	6	17	0	1.7 -1.7
26 wk2	IND	18%	4.7%	2	2	20	2	15	0	—
26 wk1	DEN	36%	8.0%	2	2	44	8	24	0	—

“We said” is the projection as it was published that week, stored before the game, with the miss beside it. Re-running today’s model on a past week would grade a model that did not exist when the number went out, so those weeks show a dash instead.

Emmett Johnson 2026 stats

Through 5 games of 2026, Emmett Johnson has 19 carries for 62 rushing yards (12.4 a game) and 7 catches for 92 receiving yards (1.4 catches and 18.4 yards a game), on 28% of snaps.

His first season in the warehouse, so there is no prior year to compare against and no career arc to draw — the projection leans on the league's rookies rather than on him.

	2026 so far (5 games)
Catches per game	1.4
Receiving yards per game	18.4
Target share	5.3%

If Emmett Johnson sits, who gets his work?The measured redistribution across the KC room — with sample size and t-statistic The whole Kansas City Chiefs roomEvery pass-catcher ranked by the usage that predicts production

Related players

The rest of the Kansas City Chiefs running back room, by target share.

Ranked next to him at RB for week 7.

Corey Kiner RB54 · NE
Kaelon Black RB55 · SF
Kaleb Johnson RB56 · GB
Jaylen Wright RB58 · MIA
Sione Vaki RB59 · DET
Tyler Badie RB60 · DEN

What we have measured about running backs

Does a new head coach change who gets the ball?It changes WHO, not how much Do touchdowns repeat from year to year?Much less than receptions

Projections are as-of-week with no lookahead · usage from official play-by-play and snap counts · 2026 week 7