Should I start Tony Pollard or Sione Vaki in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tony Pollard, and the board ranks him 115th 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-based projection for Tony Pollard is 4.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 62 percent of TEN snaps, taken 71 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 41 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 10 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 6 against IND he carried 19 times for 76 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CLE he carried 25 times for 129 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 26 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against CIN he carried 21 times for 117 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 20 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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

In 2025 Tony Pollard played 17 games and scored 185.8 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing RB23.

He carried 242 times for 1082 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 41 targets for 206 more yards.

That came to 14.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Tony Pollard was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tony Pollard scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Sione Vaki 0.0, 10.9 a game between them.

Tony Pollard finished RB23 that year and Sione Vaki RB143.

Tony Pollard had 241 more carries than Sione Vaki, 242 to 1.

Tony Pollard had 33 more catches than Sione Vaki, 33 to 0.

This season Tony Pollard holds the bigger snap share, 62 percent against 25 percent.

This season Tony Pollard holds the bigger share of the carries, 71 percent against 13 percent.

Byes and availability

Tony Pollard is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Sione Vaki.