Should I start Dameon Pierce or Brian Robinson in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Dameon Pierce over Brian Robinson
- Market projects
- 11.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 77%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 14%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 8.7
- fantasy pts
- CHI D vs RB
- 18.4
- 7th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 33%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 3%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Brian Robinson, 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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RB23 · PHI · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Market-based projection
- 11.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB31 · ATL · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 4-1
- Overall rank
- 94
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size317 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 Dameon Pierce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Brian Robinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
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.
The market-based projection for Brian Robinson is 8.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Brian Robinson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
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, Brian Robinson has been on the field for 33 percent of ATL snaps, taken 32 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against GB he carried 10 times for 50 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against NO he carried 14 times for 62 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.
In Week 5 against BAL he carried 7 times for 16 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
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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 Brian Robinson played 17 games and scored 62.5 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing RB63.
He carried 92 times for 400 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 12 targets for 25 more yards.
That came to 5.4 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 17 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Brian Robinson was available for 12 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Brian Robinson scored 3.7 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 3.0 a game between them.
Dameon Pierce finished RB128 that year and Brian Robinson RB63.
Brian Robinson had 78 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 92 to 14.
Brian Robinson had 8 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 8 to 0.
This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 33 percent.
This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger share of the carries, 61 percent against 32 percent.
Byes and availability
Brian Robinson is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Dameon Pierce.
What would change the answer
Brian Robinson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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