Should I start Dameon Pierce or Alvin Kamara in Week 6?
Updated Oct 18, 8:51 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.
Week 6 verdict
Start Dameon Pierce over Alvin Kamara
Right: 15.0 to 14.9
- Market projected
- 10.5
- pre-game
- Snap share
- 77%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 14%
- Through Week 5
- Scored
- 15.0
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 8.2
- pre-game
- NYG D vs RB
- 20.8
- 15th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 32%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 11%
- Through Week 5
- Scored
- 14.9
- PPR pts
Start Dameon Pierce: 77 percent of the snaps and 61 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Alvin Kamara's 33 percent of the snaps and 30 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB27 · PHI · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Market-based projection
- 10.4 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 71
RB36 · NO · bye 8
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 8.1 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 116
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The gap
- Board size330 draftable players
Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Alvin Kamara, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Dameon Pierce, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Alvin Kamara, 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 5
Through Week 5, Dameon Pierce has been on the field for 77 percent of PHI snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 12 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have come 1.2 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.
Through Week 5, Alvin Kamara has been on the field for 32 percent of NO snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 2 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 16 targets have come 0.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against LV he carried 9 times for 36 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against ATL he carried 7 times for 23 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 35 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 5 against MIN he carried 3 times for 12 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for -6 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 Alvin Kamara played 11 games and scored 100.7 PPR points, 9.2 a game, finishing RB46.
He carried 131 times for 471 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 33 of 39 targets for 186 more yards.
That came to 11.9 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.
He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Alvin Kamara was available for 6 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Alvin Kamara scored 9.2 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 8.4 a game between them.
Dameon Pierce finished RB128 that year and Alvin Kamara RB46.
Alvin Kamara had 117 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 131 to 14.
Alvin Kamara had 33 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 33 to 0.
This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 32 percent.
This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger share of the carries, 61 percent against 31 percent.
Byes and availability
Alvin Kamara is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Dameon Pierce.
Alvin Kamara is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Both players in full
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