Should I start Pierre Strong Jr. or Jaleel McLaughlin in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 7:06 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Pierre Strong Jr.: 49 percent of the snaps and 33 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jaleel McLaughlin's 28 percent of the snaps and 13 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.
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- Overall rank
- 116
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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.
Our board does not carry Jaleel McLaughlin at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
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.
No season market is posted for Jaleel McLaughlin, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
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, Jaleel McLaughlin has been on the field for 20 percent of CLE snaps, taken 9 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.
In Week 4 against PIT he carried 1 time for 28 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against BAL he carried 9 times for 41 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 14 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong Jr. in the last completed season.
In 2025 Jaleel McLaughlin played 8 games and scored 31.4 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing RB82.
He carried 37 times for 187 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 4 of 6 targets for 27 more yards.
That came to 4.6 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 15 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Pierre Strong Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 49 percent against 20 percent.
This season Pierre Strong Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 33 percent against 9 percent.
Byes and availability
Pierre Strong Jr. is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Jaleel McLaughlin.
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