Start Pierre Strong Jr. or AJ Dillon? Week 7
Updated Oct 24, 3:26 PM ET. Locks at kickoff, graded after. Week 8 answer posts Tuesday.
Start Pierre Strong Jr. over AJ Dillon

- Market projects
- 4.3
- fantasy pts
- DET D vs RB
- 18.7
- 8th fewest to RBs (2026)

- Market projects
- 2.8
- fantasy pts
- TB D vs RB
- 17.0
- 3rd fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 12%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 1%
- Through Week 4
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Our Week 7 call
Start Pierre Strong Jr. over AJ Dillon in Week 7.
Market-based projections have Pierre Strong Jr. at 4.3 points and AJ Dillon at 2.8, a gap of 1.5. AJ Dillon's number is scaled up from a partial market: not every stat the position needs is posted yet, so the rest is estimated from what is.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 4.3 fantasy points for Pierre Strong Jr., with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Pierre Strong Jr. is 9 rushing yards, 7 receiving yards, 1-2 receptions and 0.2 touchdowns (11, 10, 10 and 12 market sources).
Player markets imply 2.8 fantasy points for AJ Dillon, with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for AJ Dillon is 12 rushing yards and 0.1 touchdowns (8 and 12 market sources).
That puts Pierre Strong Jr. 1.5 points ahead of AJ Dillon on the market projections.
Week 7 matchups
Pierre Strong Jr. and GB visit DET on Sunday at 4:25 PM ET.
DET allowed 18.7 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 5 games, the 8th fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 84 yards and 0.8 touchdowns a game against DET and caught passes for 16 more yards.
AJ Dillon and CAR host TB on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
TB allowed 17.0 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 6 games, the 3rd fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 65 yards and 0.3 touchdowns a game against TB and caught passes for 36 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Pierre Strong Jr. has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Pierre Strong Jr. is not on the injury report.
AJ Dillon is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 7
Through Week 4, AJ Dillon played 12 percent of CAR snaps, took 18 percent of the carries, drew 1 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
AJ Dillon, Week 1 against CHI: 7 of 68 snaps, 5 carries for 28 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
AJ Dillon, Week 2 against ATL: 4 of 66 snaps, 3 carries for -3 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
AJ Dillon, Week 3 against CLE: 12 of 77 snaps, 4 carries for 16 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for -2 yards.
AJ Dillon, Week 4 against DET: 11 of 75 snaps, 5 carries for 2 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 5 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, AJ Dillon played 7 games for PHI and scored 9.1 PPR points, 1.3 a game, finishing RB113.
He ran 12 times for 60 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 3 targets for 21 yards.
He was on the field for 11 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 7 calls
Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 7, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
Week 7 on the board
- Is Pierre Strong Jr. playing Week 7?
- Is AJ Dillon playing Week 7?
- Packers depth chart
- Panthers depth chart
- Week 7 RB rankings
- Week 7 fantasy rankings
- Week 7 start or sit
- Week 7 waiver wire
- Week 7 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 7
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 7 kicker rankings
- Week 7 defense rankings