Should I start Pierre Strong or Colby Parkinson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Pierre Strong, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colby Parkinson, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Pierre Strong is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 5.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 103rd highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based projection.

Pierre Strong's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Pierre Strong has been on the field for 49 percent of GB snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 30 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 5 times for 7 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 11 times for 28 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong in the last completed season.

In 2025 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.

He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.

That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Pierre Strong is a running back and Colby Parkinson a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Pierre Strong is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

What would change the answer

Pierre Strong has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.