Start Pierre Strong Jr. or Seth McGowan? Week 7
Updated Oct 21, 11:16 PM ET. Locks at kickoff, graded after. Week 8 answer posts Tuesday.
Start Pierre Strong Jr. over Seth McGowan

- Market projects
- 4.9
- fantasy pts
- DET D vs RB
- 18.7
- 8th fewest to RBs (2026)

- Market projects
- 2.6
- recent weeks avg
- MIN D vs RB
- 14.3
- fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 19%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 2%
- Through Week 6
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Our Week 7 call
Start Pierre Strong Jr. over Seth McGowan in Week 7.
Market-based projections have Pierre Strong Jr. at 4.9 points and Seth McGowan at 2.6, a gap of 2.2. No player market is posted for Seth McGowan this week yet, so his 2.6 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 4, 5 and 6 (2.0, 2.4 and 3.6); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 4.9 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 11 rushing yards, 8 receiving yards, 1-2 receptions and 0.3 touchdowns (6, 5, 4 and 13 market sources).
No Week 7 player market is posted for Seth McGowan yet. His market-based projections were 2.0, 2.4 and 3.6 points in Weeks 4, 5 and 6, an average of 2.6, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.
The market-based projection for Seth McGowan is 0.1 touchdowns (13 market sources).
That puts Pierre Strong Jr. 2.2 points ahead of Seth McGowan on these 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.
Seth McGowan and IND visit MIN on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
MIN allowed 14.3 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 5 games, the fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 72 yards and 0.4 touchdowns a game against MIN and caught passes for 18 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.
Seth McGowan is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 7
Through Week 6, Seth McGowan played 19 percent of IND snaps, took 13 percent of the carries, drew 2 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
Seth McGowan, Week 3 against HOU: 11 of 71 snaps, 4 carries for 14 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Seth McGowan, Week 4 against WAS: 19 of 66 snaps, 6 carries for 31 yards, 2 targets and 1 catch for 7 yards.
Seth McGowan, Week 5 against PIT: 19 of 71 snaps, 5 carries for 16 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 3 yards.
Seth McGowan, Week 6 against TEN: 19 of 83 snaps, 4 carries for 27 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
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 Seth McGowan playing Week 7?
- Packers depth chart
- Colts 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