Should I start Pierre Strong or Evan Engram in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 8:02 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Evan Engram: 56 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Pierre Strong's 49 percent of the snaps and 33 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.
RB44 · GB · bye 11
- Market-based projection
- 7.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 123
TE17 · DEN · bye 10
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- Market-based projection
- 6.1 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 Pierre Strong, and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Evan Engram, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Pierre Strong is 1.7 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.
Evan Engram's market-based projection is 6.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 96th highest figure of the 199 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, Evan Engram has been on the field for 57 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 19 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.
In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAC he caught 4 of 4 targets for 55 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong in the last completed season.
In 2025 Evan Engram played 16 games and scored 102.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing TE29.
He caught 50 of 76 targets for 461 yards and 1 touchdown, with 10 red zone targets.
That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 42 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Pierre Strong is a running back and Evan Engram 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 and Evan Engram in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
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.
Both players in full
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