Sione Vaki or Demond Claiborne: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 12, 2026 at 1:11 PM ET
Week 5 verdict
Start Sione Vaki over Demond Claiborne
Wrong: 1.1 to 1.6
- Market projected
- 2.5
- pre-game
- Target share
- 0%
- Week 5
- Scored
- 1.1
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 1.8
- pre-game
- Target share
- 3%
- Week 5
- Scored
- 1.6
- PPR pts
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, 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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RB60 · DET · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market price
- 2.0 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 228
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
RB61 · MIN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Market price
- 1.4 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 242
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
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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 Sione Vaki: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 228th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Demond Claiborne: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 242nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Sione Vaki, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Demond Claiborne, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Sione Vaki has been on the field for 23 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.
Through Week 5, Demond Claiborne has been on the field for 7 percent of MIN snaps, taken 5 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 41 third down targets and seen 0 of its 13 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have come 7.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against TB he carried 3 times for 1 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against MIA he carried 3 times for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against NO he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
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.
Demond Claiborne is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Sione Vaki holds the bigger snap share, 23 percent against 7 percent.
This season Sione Vaki holds the bigger share of the carries, 12 percent against 5 percent.
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