Should I start Sione Vaki or Dohnte Meyers in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 6:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Dohnte Meyers: 43 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Sione Vaki's 25 percent of the snaps and 18 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB32 · DET · bye unlisted
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- Overall rank
- 93
WR38 · CIN · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 4.5 pts a game
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The gap
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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 Sione Vaki, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Dohnte Meyers, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Sione Vaki is 4.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 8 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.
Dohnte Meyers's market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 106th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.
Sione Vaki's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Sione Vaki has been on the field for 24 percent of DET snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 0 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 1.7 air yards.
In Week 5 against ARI he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against GB he carried 1 time for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against MIN he carried 11 times for 65 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Dohnte Meyers has been on the field for 45 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 1 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 43 two minute targets.
His 23 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.
In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against BAL he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against TEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 34 yards and did not score.
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.
Dohnte Meyers is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Sione Vaki is a running back and Dohnte Meyers a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
What would change the answer
Sione Vaki has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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