Skip to main content
parlae.ioBeta
Sign in

Start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Sione Vaki? Week 5

Locks at kickoff, graded after.

Start Chris Rodriguez Jr. over Sione Vaki

Market projects
4.6
fantasy pts
Market projects
2.5
fantasy pts
Snap share
23%
Through Week 4
Target share
3%
Through Week 4

Make this call for your own roster

Sync your league and My Team sets this week's lineup for your actual roster, spot by spot. Free, no account.

Sync my league

Or get it by email

Tuesday 8am ET: one email with what moved on the board and who is worth a claim.

Free. One a week, one tap to stop.

Our Week 5 call

Start Chris Rodriguez Jr. over Sione Vaki in Week 5.

Market-based projections have Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 4.6 points and Sione Vaki at 2.5, a gap of 2.1. Sione Vaki'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.

Advertisement

What the market projects

Player markets imply 4.6 fantasy points for Chris Rodriguez Jr., with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 26.5 rushing yards, with a 22% chance to score a touchdown (14 and 16 market sources).

Player markets imply 2.5 fantasy points for Sione Vaki, with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

The market has Sione Vaki at 8.5 rushing yards, with a 12% chance to score a touchdown (15 and 15 market sources).

That puts Chris Rodriguez Jr. 2.1 points ahead of Sione Vaki on the market projections.

Injury status

Chris Rodriguez Jr. is not on the injury report.

Sione Vaki is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 5

Through Week 4, Sione Vaki played 23 percent of DET snaps, took 9 percent of the carries, drew 3 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

Sione Vaki, Week 1 against NO: 22 of 77 snaps, 2 carries for 7 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 11 yards.

Sione Vaki, Week 2 against BUF: 11 of 65 snaps, 1 carry for 7 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 13 yards.

Sione Vaki, Week 3 against NYJ: 20 of 65 snaps, 6 carries for 26 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 11 yards.

Sione Vaki, Week 4 against CAR: 12 of 71 snaps, 0 carries for 0 yards, 2 targets and 1 catch for 17 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Sione Vaki played 11 games for DET and scored 0.4 PPR points, 0.0 a game, finishing RB143.

He ran 1 time for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 yards.

He was on the field for 0 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 5 calls

On the draft board

Ranked ahead

RB51 · JAX · bye 7

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Overall rank
196
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
15

Ranked behind

RB59 · DET · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-4

Overall rank
224
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
16

The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 5, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.

The gap between them

  • Spots apart on the board28
  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Tierstier 15 and tier 16
  • Board size289 draftable players

Drafting soon? Use the free live draft assistant

It reranks the board after every pick and shows who is falling past ADP at your slot. No sign in, nothing to install.

Open the draft assistant

Week 5 on the board

Elsewhere on the board