Sione Vaki or Seth McGowan: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Sione Vaki: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 224th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Seth McGowan: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Sione Vaki at 2.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 16 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Seth McGowan at 2.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 204th highest figure of the 229 players the market prices.

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

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Sione Vaki has been on the field for 23 percent of DET snaps, taken 9 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 1.6 air yards.

In Week 2 against BUF he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 13 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 4, Seth McGowan has been on the field for 16 percent of IND snaps, taken 11 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 1.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against KC he carried 2 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against HOU he carried 4 times for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against WAS he carried 6 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 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.

Seth McGowan is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Sione Vaki holds the bigger snap share, 23 percent against 16 percent.

This season Seth McGowan holds the bigger share of the carries, 11 percent against 9 percent.

What would change the answer

Sione Vaki is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.