Should I start CJ Donaldson or Sione Vaki in Week 7?
Updated Oct 24, 4:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
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Week 7 verdict
Start CJ Donaldson over Sione Vaki
- Market projects
- 3.2
- fantasy pts
- PIT D vs RB
- 20.4
- 15th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 28%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 3%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 2.3
- fantasy pts
- GB D vs RB
- 26.2
- 3rd most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 26%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 3%
- Through Week 5
Start CJ Donaldson: 37 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Sione Vaki's 27 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB51 · NO · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Overall rank
- 175
RB56 · DET · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 192
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The gap
- Board size333 draftable players
Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on CJ Donaldson, and the board ranks him 175th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Sione Vaki, and the board ranks him 192nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for CJ Donaldson is 3.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Sione Vaki is 2.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
CJ Donaldson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 6, CJ Donaldson has been on the field for 28 percent of NO snaps, taken 11 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 37 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 1.2 air yards.
In Week 4 against ATL he carried 3 times for 18 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against MIN he carried 4 times for 13 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NYG he carried 6 times for 39 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Sione Vaki has been on the field for 26 percent of DET snaps, taken 12 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 26 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against ARI he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
CJ Donaldson is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Sione Vaki played 11 games and scored 0.4 PPR points, 0.0 a game, finishing RB143.
He carried 1 time for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.
That came to 0.1 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry.
He was on the field for 0 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season CJ Donaldson holds the bigger snap share, 28 percent against 26 percent.
This season Sione Vaki holds the bigger share of the carries, 12 percent against 11 percent.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
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- Is Sione Vaki playing Week 7?
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