Alec Pierce or Jacksonville Defense: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR83 · IND · bye 13
2025 vs anytime td line 4-11
- Overall rank
- 211
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 24
DEF4 · JAX · bye 7
- Overall rank
- 214
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 1
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size221 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Alec Pierce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 211th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jacksonville Defense: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 214th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Alec Pierce, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Jacksonville Defense, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Alec Pierce has been on the field for 41 percent of IND snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 13 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 16.1 air yards.
In Week 1 against BAL he caught 4 of 6 targets for 61 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against KC he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Jacksonville Defense this season.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Alec Pierce played 15 games and scored 183.3 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR28.
He caught 47 of 84 targets for 1003 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.
That came to 5.6 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 21.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Jacksonville Defense in the last completed season.
Side by side
Alec Pierce is a wide receiver and Jacksonville Defense a defense, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Alec Pierce is off in Week 13 and Jacksonville Defense in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Alec Pierce is listed as ir on the injury report.
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