Should I start Dameon Pierce or AJ Barner in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Dameon Pierce is 3.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 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.

AJ Barner's market-based projection is 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Dameon Pierce has been on the field for 87 percent of PHI snaps, taken 74 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 43 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 2 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 0.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against JAX he carried 11 times for 14 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CAR he carried 12 times for 35 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, AJ Barner has been on the field for 90 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 3 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 3 of 5 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Dameon Pierce played 5 games and scored 3.6 PPR points, 0.7 a game, finishing RB128.

He carried 14 times for 36 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 1 target for 0 more yards.

That came to 2.8 carries a game at 2.6 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 8 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 AJ Barner played 17 games and scored 147.3 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE14.

He caught 52 of 68 targets for 519 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

AJ Barner was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 AJ Barner scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 7.9 a game between them.

Dameon Pierce finished RB128 and AJ Barner TE14, which are two different ladders.

Dameon Pierce is a running back and AJ Barner a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Dameon Pierce is off in Week 10 and AJ Barner in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Dameon Pierce has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.