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Should I start Dameon Pierce or Caleb Williams in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 12:11 AM ET.

Start Caleb Williams: 93 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 2 games, against Dameon Pierce's 77 percent of the snaps and 61 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB8 · PHI · bye 10

2025 vs anytime td line 0-4

Market-based projection
10.4 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
26

QB3 · CHI · bye 10

2025 vs pass yds line 10-7

Market-based projection
18.7 pts a game

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The gap

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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 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Williams, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 9.

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.

Caleb Williams's market-based projection is 18.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 2nd highest figure of the 151 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Dameon Pierce has been on the field for 77 percent of PHI snaps, taken 74 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 43 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 2 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 0.4 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.

In Week 6 against CAR he carried 12 times for 35 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Caleb Williams has been on the field for 93 percent of CHI snaps, dropped back 111 times and thrown 6.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 18 of 111 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.

In Week 1 against CAR he completed 21 of 29 passes for 269 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 10 times for 65 yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he completed 15 of 26 passes for 138 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 42 yards.

In Week 6 against ATL he completed 30 of 36 passes for 305 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 4 yards.

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 Caleb Williams played 17 games and scored 325.2 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB5.

He threw for 3942 yards on 568 attempts with 27 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 383 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 33.4 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Caleb Williams was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Caleb Williams scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 18.4 a game between them.

Dameon Pierce finished RB128 and Caleb Williams QB5, which are two different ladders.

Dameon Pierce is a running back and Caleb Williams a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

Dameon Pierce has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Both players in full

Week 7 on the board

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