Should I start Josh Downs or Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Pierre Strong Jr., and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Josh Downs is 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market has Pierre Strong Jr. at 3.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Josh Downs's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Josh Downs has been on the field for 81 percent of IND snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 73 third down targets, had 0 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 57 targets have averaged 9.6 air yards.

In Week 7 against MIN he caught 2 of 4 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against JAX he caught 4 of 5 targets for 23 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against DAL he caught 3 of 6 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

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 Josh Downs played 16 games and scored 136.4 PPR points, 8.5 a game, finishing WR44.

He caught 58 of 88 targets for 566 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5-6 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 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

Josh Downs is a wide receiver 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

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