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Should I start Dameon Pierce or Cam Skattebo in Week 6?

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.

Updated Oct 18, 8:06 PM ET.

Week 6 verdict

Start Dameon Pierce over Cam Skattebo

Right: 15.0 to 0.0
Start

Dameon Pierce

RB · final

Market projected
10.5
pre-game
Snap share
77%
Through Week 5
Target share
14%
Through Week 5
Scored
15.0
PPR pts
Sit

Cam Skattebo

RB · NYG · vs NO · final

Market projected
10.3
pre-game
NO D vs RB
31.1
most to RBs (2026)
Snap share
65%
Through Week 5
Target share
7%
Through Week 5
Scored
0.0
PPR pts
Start Pierce or Skattebo? The full Week 6 breakdown

Start Dameon Pierce: 77 percent of the snaps and 61 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Cam Skattebo's 67 percent of the snaps and 59 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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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
Draft pick
no draft data
Tier
7

RB29 · NYG · bye 8

2026 vs carries line 3-3

Market-based projection
9.7 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
84
Draft pick
no draft data
Tier
7

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Also deciding this week

The gap

  • Draft positionno current draft data for both
  • 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 Cam Skattebo, and the board ranks him 84th 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 Cam Skattebo, 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, Cam Skattebo has been on the field for 65 percent of NYG snaps, taken 57 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 3 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 2.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against TEN he carried 20 times for 60 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against ARI he carried 18 times for 58 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he carried 13 times for 59 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 12 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 Cam Skattebo played 8 games and scored 127.7 PPR points, 16.0 a game, finishing RB37.

He carried 101 times for 410 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 32 targets for 207 more yards.

That came to 12.6 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cam Skattebo was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Cam Skattebo scored 16.0 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 15.2 a game between them.

Dameon Pierce finished RB128 that year and Cam Skattebo RB37.

Cam Skattebo had 87 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 101 to 14.

Cam Skattebo had 24 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 24 to 0.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 65 percent.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger share of the carries, 61 percent against 57 percent.

Byes and availability

Cam Skattebo is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Dameon Pierce.

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