Should I start Tyjae Spears or Isiah Pacheco in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 6:36 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Tyjae Spears: he has been on the field this season, 39 percent of the snaps, and Isiah Pacheco has no snap on record yet. 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.
RB64 · TEN · on bye this week
2026 vs carries line 1-5
- Overall rank
- 228
RB67 · DET · bye 6
2025 vs rush yds line 2-11
- Overall rank
- 232
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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 Tyjae Spears, and the board ranks him 228th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Isiah Pacheco, and the board ranks him 232nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Tyjae Spears, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Isiah Pacheco, 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 6
Through Week 6, Tyjae Spears has been on the field for 42 percent of TEN snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have come 2.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 4 against BAL he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -1 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against HOU he carried 2 times for 0 yards, caught 9 of 9 targets for 28 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Isiah Pacheco this season.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tyjae Spears played 13 games and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.
He carried 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 more yards.
That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 3-4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Isiah Pacheco played 13 games and scored 87.3 PPR points, 6.7 a game, finishing RB56.
He carried 118 times for 462 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 19 of 26 targets for 101 more yards.
That came to 9.1 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 52 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 13 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Tyjae Spears scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Isiah Pacheco 6.7, 1.9 a game between them.
Tyjae Spears finished RB44 that year and Isiah Pacheco RB56.
Isiah Pacheco had 46 more carries than Tyjae Spears, 118 to 72.
Tyjae Spears had 26 more catches than Isiah Pacheco, 45 to 19.
Byes and availability
Tyjae Spears is off in Week 9 and Isiah Pacheco in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Tyjae Spears is listed as out on the injury report.
Isiah Pacheco is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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