Should I start Geno Smith or Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 10:21 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Geno Smith: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Pierre Strong Jr.'s 23 percent of the snaps and 12 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
QB16 · NYJ · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 6-3
- Overall rank
- 121
RB38 · GB · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 122
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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 Geno Smith, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Pierre Strong Jr., and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Geno Smith is 15.5 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 6 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market has Pierre Strong Jr. at 3.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 6 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.
Geno Smith's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Geno Smith has been on the field for 100 percent of NYJ snaps, dropped back 310 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 53 of 310 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.
In Week 7 against MIA he completed 23 of 30 passes for 287 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 8 against LV he completed 20 of 32 passes for 290 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.
In Week 9 against KC he completed 18 of 32 passes for 165 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 8 yards.
Through Week 9, Pierre Strong Jr. has been on the field for 23 percent of GB snaps, taken 12 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 7 against DET he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against CAR he carried 1 time for 2 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against NE he carried 8 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Geno Smith played 15 games and scored 190.9 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing QB23.
He threw for 3025 yards on 448 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 17 interceptions, and ran for 109 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong Jr. in the last completed season.
Side by side
Geno Smith is a quarterback and Pierre Strong Jr. a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Geno Smith is off in Week 13 and Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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