Should I start Tyjae Spears or Pierre Strong in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 4:26 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Tyjae Spears: 45 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the carries 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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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.
RB43 · TEN · bye 9
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- Market-based projection
- 6.2 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 159
RB45 · GB · bye 11
- Market-based projection
- 7.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 161
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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 Tyjae Spears, and the board ranks him 159th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Pierre Strong, and the board ranks him 161st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Tyjae Spears is 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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-based projection for Pierre Strong is 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Tyjae Spears's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Tyjae Spears has been on the field for 44 percent of TEN snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have come 2.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 4 against BAL he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -1 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against HOU he carried 2 times for 0 yards, caught 9 of 9 targets for 28 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Pierre Strong has been on the field for 41 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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tyjae Spears played 13 games and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.
He carried 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 more yards.
That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 3-4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong in the last completed season.
Head to head
This season Tyjae Spears holds the bigger snap share, 44 percent against 41 percent.
This season Pierre Strong holds the bigger share of the carries, 33 percent against 14 percent.
Byes and availability
Tyjae Spears is off in Week 9 and Pierre Strong in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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