Should I start Pierre Strong Jr. or Sione Vaki in Week 7?
Updated Oct 22, 12:31 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Pierre Strong Jr. over Sione Vaki

- Market projects
- 4.9
- fantasy pts
- DET D vs RB
- 18.7
- 8th fewest to RBs (2026)

- Market projects
- 2.5
- fantasy pts
- GB D vs RB
- 26.2
- 3rd most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 26%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 3%
- Through Week 5
Start Pierre Strong Jr.: 49 percent of the snaps and 33 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Sione Vaki's 27 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB35 · GB · bye 11
- Market-based projection
- 4.9 pts a game
RB48 · DET · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 149
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The gap
- Board size316 draftable players
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 Pierre Strong Jr., and the board ranks him 109th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Sione Vaki, and the board ranks him 149th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Pierre Strong Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.9 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 130th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Sione Vaki is 2.5 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.
Sione Vaki's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 6, Pierre Strong Jr. has been on the field for 49 percent of GB snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 30 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 0.7 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.
In Week 6 against DAL he carried 11 times for 28 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 39 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Sione Vaki has been on the field for 26 percent of DET snaps, taken 12 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 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 26 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against ARI he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong Jr. in the last completed season.
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.
Head to head
This season Pierre Strong Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 49 percent against 26 percent.
This season Pierre Strong Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 33 percent against 12 percent.
Byes and availability
Pierre Strong Jr. is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Sione Vaki.
What would change the answer
Sione Vaki has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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