Should I start Michael Pittman Jr. or Pierre Strong in Week 6?

Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.

Updated Oct 18, 9:01 AM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Michael Pittman Jr.: 78 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Pierre Strong's 41 percent of the snaps and 21 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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Michael Pittman Jr.

WR47 · PIT · bye 9

2025 vs rec yds line 5-12

Market-based projection: 7.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank: 127
Draft pick: no draft data
Tier: 16

Pierre Strong

RB35 · GB · bye unlisted

Market-based projection: 7.4 pts a game
Draft pick: no draft data

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Their Week 6 outlook

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 Michael Pittman Jr., and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Pierre Strong, and the board ranks him 129th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Michael Pittman Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Pierre Strong's market-based projection is 7.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Michael Pittman Jr. has been on the field for 78 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 9.4 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 58 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CIN he caught 2 of 5 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Pierre Strong has been on the field for 41 percent of GB snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 9 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have come 4 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.

Their last full seasons

The season feed carries no line for Michael Pittman Jr. in the last completed season.

The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong in the last completed season.

Side by side

Michael Pittman Jr. is a wide receiver and Pierre Strong a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Michael Pittman Jr. is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Pierre Strong.

Michael Pittman Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Michael Pittman Jr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

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