Should I start Bucky Irving or Dameon Pierce in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Bucky Irving's market-based projection is 11.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 72nd 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 Bucky Irving: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 53rd 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, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 61 percent of TB snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against MIN he carried 15 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against GB he carried 16 times for 61 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 21 times for 165 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Bucky Irving played 10 games and scored 138.5 PPR points, 13.9 a game, finishing RB34.

He carried 173 times for 588 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 35 targets for 277 more yards.

That came to 17.3 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 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.

Bucky Irving was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Bucky Irving scored 13.9 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 13.1 a game between them.

Bucky Irving finished RB34 that year and Dameon Pierce RB128.

Bucky Irving had 159 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 173 to 14.

Bucky Irving had 30 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 30 to 0.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 61 percent.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger share of the carries, 61 percent against 58 percent.

Byes and availability

Bucky Irving is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Dameon Pierce.

What would change the answer

0.4 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.