Should I start Braelon Allen or Dameon Pierce in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Braelon Allen's market-based projection is 14.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 52nd highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Dameon Pierce's market-based projection is 11.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 75th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Braelon Allen: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 31st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dameon Pierce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Braelon Allen has been on the field for 56 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 45 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 33 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against DET he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CHI he carried 14 times for 59 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CLE he carried 24 times for 116 yards, caught 1 of 4 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Braelon Allen played 4 games and scored 15.3 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB100.

He carried 18 times for 76 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 more yards.

That came to 4-5 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Dameon Pierce was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Braelon Allen scored 3.8 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 3.1 a game between them.

Braelon Allen finished RB100 that year and Dameon Pierce RB128.

Braelon Allen had 4 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 18 to 14.

Braelon Allen had 2 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 2 to 0.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 56 percent.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger share of the carries, 61 percent against 45 percent.

Byes and availability

Braelon Allen is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Dameon Pierce.

What would change the answer

2.8 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.