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Should I start Pierre Strong Jr. or Sione Vaki in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 9:36 PM ET.

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Start Sione Vaki: 24 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Pierre Strong Jr.'s 23 percent of the snaps and 12 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.

RB33 · GB · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Overall rank
97

RB39 · DET · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-8

Overall rank
122

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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 Pierre Strong Jr., and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Sione Vaki, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Pierre Strong Jr. at 4.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 6 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 Sione Vaki is 3.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 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.

Pierre Strong Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Pierre Strong Jr. has been on the field for 23 percent of GB snaps, taken 12 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 9 against NE he carried 8 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

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

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 Sione Vaki holds the bigger snap share, 25 percent against 23 percent.

This season Sione Vaki holds the bigger share of the carries, 13 percent against 12 percent.

Byes and availability

Pierre Strong Jr. is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Sione Vaki.

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