Should I start Sione Vaki or Kendre Miller in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Sione Vaki, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 119th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Sione Vaki is 3.6 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 8 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.

The market-based projection for Kendre Miller is 3.2 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.

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

This season so far

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 7, Kendre Miller has been on the field for 31 percent of NO snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 5 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against MIN he carried 10 times for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NYG he carried 20 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PIT he carried 8 times for 6 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 22 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 Kendre Miller played 7 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB79.

He carried 47 times for 193 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 more yards.

That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Sione Vaki was available for 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Kendre Miller scored 4.8 PPR points a game and Sione Vaki 0.0, 4.7 a game between them.

Sione Vaki finished RB143 that year and Kendre Miller RB79.

Kendre Miller had 46 more carries than Sione Vaki, 47 to 1.

Kendre Miller had 5 more catches than Sione Vaki, 5 to 0.

This season Kendre Miller holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 24 percent.

This season Kendre Miller holds the bigger share of the carries, 40 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Kendre Miller is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Sione Vaki.