Should I start Sione Vaki or Jahan Dotson in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Sione Vaki, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jahan Dotson, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Sione Vaki is 4.2 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jahan Dotson's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 120th highest figure of the 225 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, Jahan Dotson has been on the field for 68 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 16.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 3 of 5 targets for 87 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against TB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 95 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.

In 2025 Jahan Dotson played 17 games and scored 50.2 PPR points, 3.0 a game, finishing WR109.

He caught 18 of 36 targets for 262 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jahan Dotson was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jahan Dotson scored 3.0 PPR points a game and Sione Vaki 0.0, 2.9 a game between them.

Sione Vaki finished RB143 and Jahan Dotson WR109, which are two different ladders.

Sione Vaki is a running back and Jahan Dotson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jahan Dotson is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Sione Vaki.

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.