Should I start Ray Davis or Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 6:46 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Ray Davis: 17 percent of the snaps and 9 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Pierre Strong Jr.'s 13 percent of the snaps and 2 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.
RB58 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 0-7
- Market-based projection
- 1.5 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 182
RB60 · GB · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 184
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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 Ray Davis, and the board ranks him 182nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Pierre Strong Jr., and the board ranks him 184th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Ray Davis is 0.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market has Pierre Strong Jr. at 0.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Ray Davis's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Ray Davis has been on the field for 13 percent of BUF snaps, taken 5 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 27 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 5 against LAR he carried 2 times for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against LV he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against BAL he carried 6 times for 30 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Pierre Strong Jr. has been on the field for 13 percent of GB snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.
In Week 7 against DET he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against CAR he carried 1 time for 2 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Ray Davis played 17 games and scored 64.1 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB61.
He carried 58 times for 275 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 13 targets for 86 more yards.
That came to 3.4 carries a game at 4.7 yards a carry and 0.6 catches a game.
He was on the field for 11 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong Jr. in the last completed season.
Head to head
Their snap share this season is the same, 13 percent each.
This season Ray Davis holds the bigger share of the carries, 5 percent against 2 percent.
Byes and availability
Ray Davis is off in Week 7 and Pierre Strong Jr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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