Should I start Sione Vaki or Malik Willis in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 4:41 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Dolphins put QB Malik Willis on IR with groin injury (ESPN)
- : Malik Willis: Questionable to IR (Groin) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Malik Willis: Listed Questionable (Groin) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Malik Willis: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Sione Vaki's 24 percent of the snaps and 16 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.
RB28 · DET · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-8
- Overall rank
- 82
QB13 · MIA · bye 6
2026 vs pass yds line 5-3
- Market-based projection
- 18.2 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 189
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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 Sione Vaki, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Willis, and the board ranks him 189th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 38.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Sione Vaki is 3.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 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.
The market-based projection for Malik Willis is 1.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback'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 through Week 9
Through Week 9, Sione Vaki has been on the field for 25 percent of DET snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 0 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.
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.
In Week 9 against MIA he carried 3 times for 14 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.
Through Week 9, Malik Willis has been on the field for 100 percent of MIA snaps, dropped back 254 times and thrown 9.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 39 of 254 dropbacks and scrambled 24 times.
In Week 7 against NYJ he completed 14 of 21 passes for 208 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 39 yards.
In Week 8 against NE he completed 21 of 32 passes for 211 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 2 yards.
In Week 9 against DET he completed 13 of 24 passes for 128 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 7 yards.
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 Malik Willis played 4 games and scored 51.2 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing QB45.
He threw for 422 yards on 35 attempts with 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 8.8 attempts a game at 12.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Sione Vaki was available for 7 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Malik Willis scored 12.8 PPR points a game and Sione Vaki 0.0, 12.8 a game between them.
Sione Vaki finished RB143 and Malik Willis QB45, which are two different ladders.
Sione Vaki is a running back and Malik Willis a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Malik Willis is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Sione Vaki.
Malik Willis is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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