Dameon Pierce or Sione Vaki: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 11, 2026 at 3:06 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Sione Vaki, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB53 · PHI · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Market price
- 3.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB59 · DET · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 224
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 18
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size289 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Dameon Pierce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 201st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Sione Vaki: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 224th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Dameon Pierce at 3.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 179th highest figure of the 229 players the market prices.
The market has Sione Vaki at 2.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 16 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Sione Vaki's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Dameon Pierce this season.
Through Week 4, Sione Vaki has been on the field for 23 percent of DET snaps, taken 9 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.6 air yards.
In Week 2 against BUF he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 13 yards and did not score.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Dameon Pierce played 5 games and scored 3.6 PPR points, 0.7 a game, finishing RB128.
He carried 14 times for 36 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 1 target for 0 more yards.
That came to 2.8 carries a game at 2.6 yards a carry.
He was on the field for 8 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Sione Vaki was available for 6 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Dameon Pierce scored 0.7 PPR points a game and Sione Vaki 0.0, 0.7 a game between them.
Dameon Pierce finished RB128 that year and Sione Vaki RB143.
Dameon Pierce had 13 more carries than Sione Vaki, 14 to 1.
What would change the answer
Sione Vaki is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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