Should I start Nico Collins or Sione Vaki in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Nico Collins, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Sione Vaki, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Nico Collins is 2.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. 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-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.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Nico Collins has been on the field for 71 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 12.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against JAX he carried 1 time for 5 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 74 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYG he caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAC he caught 4 of 4 targets for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Nico Collins played 15 games and scored 226.2 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing WR8.

He caught 71 of 120 targets for 1117 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 8.0 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 15.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 77 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Nico Collins was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Nico Collins scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Sione Vaki 0.0, 15.0 a game between them.

Nico Collins finished WR8 and Sione Vaki RB143, which are two different ladders.

Nico Collins is a wide receiver and Sione Vaki a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Nico Collins is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Sione Vaki.