Should I start Sione Vaki or Savion Williams in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Sione Vaki, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Savion Williams, and the board ranks him 129th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Sione Vaki is 4.2 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Savion Williams's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Sione Vaki has been on the field for 24 percent of DET snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 0 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 1.7 air yards.

In Week 5 against ARI he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 8, Savion Williams has been on the field for 56 percent of GB snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 38 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 7.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CAR he carried 1 time for 18 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

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 Savion Williams played 12 games and scored 25.5 PPR points, 2.1 a game, finishing WR144.

He caught 10 of 10 targets for 78 yards and 1 touchdown, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 7.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 12 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Savion Williams was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Savion Williams scored 2.1 PPR points a game and Sione Vaki 0.0, 2.1 a game between them.

Sione Vaki finished RB143 and Savion Williams WR144, which are two different ladders.

Sione Vaki is a running back and Savion Williams a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

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.