Should I start Sione Vaki or RJ Harvey in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Sione Vaki, and the board ranks him 149th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on RJ Harvey, and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

The market-based projection for RJ Harvey is 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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.

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

This season so far

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.

Through Week 6, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 41 percent of DEN snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 7 times for 25 yards, caught 10 of 10 targets for 68 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he carried 6 times for 25 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 RJ Harvey played 17 games and scored 206.6 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing RB20.

He carried 146 times for 540 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 47 of 58 targets for 356 more yards.

That came to 8.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 2.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

RJ Harvey was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 RJ Harvey scored 12.2 PPR points a game and Sione Vaki 0.0, 12.1 a game between them.

Sione Vaki finished RB143 that year and RJ Harvey RB20.

RJ Harvey had 145 more carries than Sione Vaki, 146 to 1.

RJ Harvey had 47 more catches than Sione Vaki, 47 to 0.

This season RJ Harvey holds the bigger snap share, 41 percent against 26 percent.

This season RJ Harvey holds the bigger share of the carries, 18 percent against 12 percent.

Byes and availability

RJ Harvey is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Sione Vaki.