Start Jaylen Wright or Sione Vaki? Week 8
Updated Oct 27, 2:06 PM ET. Locks at kickoff, graded after. Week 9 answer posts Tuesday.
Latest
- : Jaylen Wright: Listed Questionable (Quadriceps) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Jaylen Wright: Listed Questionable (Foot) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Jaylen Wright over Sione Vaki
- Market projects
- 4.2
- recent weeks avg
- NE D vs RB
- 20.6
- 13th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 13%
- Through Week 7
- Target share
- 1%
- Through Week 7
- Market projects
- 2.3
- recent weeks avg
- MIN D vs RB
- 16.0
- fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 24%
- Through Week 7
- Target share
- 2%
- Through Week 7
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Our Week 8 call
Start Jaylen Wright over Sione Vaki in Week 8.
Market-based projections have Jaylen Wright at 4.2 points and Sione Vaki at 2.3, a gap of 1.9. No player market is posted for Jaylen Wright this week yet, so his 4.2 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 5 and 7 (4.5 and 3.9); the call is rebuilt when his market posts. No player market is posted for Sione Vaki this week yet, so his 2.3 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 5 and 7 (2.3 and 2.3); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.
What the market projects
No Week 8 player market is posted for Jaylen Wright yet. His market-based projections were 4.5 and 3.9 points in Weeks 5 and 7, an average of 4.2, which stands in until his Week 8 market posts.
No Week 8 player market is posted for Sione Vaki yet. His market-based projections were 2.3 and 2.3 points in Weeks 5 and 7, an average of 2.3, which stands in until his Week 8 market posts.
The market-based projection for Sione Vaki is 0.1 touchdowns (12 market sources).
That puts Jaylen Wright 1.9 points ahead of Sione Vaki on these projections.
Week 8 matchups
Jaylen Wright and MIA host NE on Sunday at 4:25 PM ET.
NE allowed 20.6 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 7 games, the 13th fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 83 yards and 0.7 touchdowns a game against NE and caught passes for 35 more yards.
Sione Vaki and DET host MIN on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
MIN allowed 16.0 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 6 games, the fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 84 yards and 0-1 touchdowns a game against MIN and caught passes for 18 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Jaylen Wright has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Jaylen Wright is listed as questionable with a quadriceps injury.
Sione Vaki is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 8
Through Week 7, Jaylen Wright played 13 percent of MIA snaps, took 14 percent of the carries, drew 1 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
Jaylen Wright, Week 2 against SF: 3 of 59 snaps, 2 carries for 11 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Jaylen Wright, Week 4 against MIN: 12 of 39 snaps, 5 carries for 7 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Jaylen Wright, Week 5 against CIN: 9 of 66 snaps, 6 carries for 11 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Jaylen Wright, Week 7 against NYJ: 8 of 65 snaps, 6 carries for 8 yards, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Through Week 7, Sione Vaki played 24 percent of DET snaps, took 10 percent of the carries, drew 2 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.
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.
Sione Vaki, Week 5 against ARI: 23 of 66 snaps, 6 carries for 11 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Sione Vaki, Week 7 against GB: 9 of 68 snaps, 1 carry for 5 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Jaylen Wright played 10 games for MIA and scored 48.2 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB70.
He ran 70 times for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 9 targets for 44 yards.
He was on the field for 14 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
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 8 calls
Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 8, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
Week 8 on the board
- Is Jaylen Wright playing Week 8?
- Is Sione Vaki playing Week 8?
- Dolphins depth chart
- Lions depth chart
- Week 8 RB rankings
- Week 8 fantasy rankings
- Week 8 start or sit
- Week 8 waiver wire
- Week 8 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 8
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 8 kicker rankings
- Week 8 defense rankings