Should I start Pierre Strong Jr. or Geno Smith in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 6:41 PM ET. Week 8 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 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.

Should I drop Pierre Strong Jr. for Geno Smith?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Geno Smith projects 151 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (15.1 a game over 10 games), Pierre Strong Jr. 63 (6.3 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Pierre Strong Jr.

RB39 · GB · bye 11

Overall rank: 116

Geno Smith

QB21 · NYJ · bye 13

2026 vs pass yds line 4-2

Market-based projection: 15.1 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 Jr., and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Geno Smith, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Pierre Strong Jr. at 4.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 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 market-based projection is 15.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 45th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Pierre Strong Jr.'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 Jr. 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, Geno Smith has been on the field for 100 percent of NYJ snaps, dropped back 204 times and thrown 7.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 37 of 204 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 4 against CHI he completed 8 of 15 passes for 119 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 5 against CLE he completed 17 of 30 passes for 182 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 9 yards.

In Week 6 against NE he completed 20 of 30 passes for 252 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong Jr. in the last completed season.

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.

Side by side

Pierre Strong Jr. is a running back and Geno Smith a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Pierre Strong Jr. is off in Week 11 and Geno Smith in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Pierre Strong Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Pierre Strong Jr. for Geno Smith?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Geno Smith projects 151 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (15.1 a game over 10 games), Pierre Strong Jr. 63 (6.3 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Geno Smith for Pierre Strong Jr.?
No. Keep Geno Smith: he projects 151 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (15.1 a game over 10 games), Pierre Strong Jr. 63 (6.3 a game over 10 games).