Should I start Chris Brooks or Dameon Pierce in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 12:11 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Dameon Pierce: Questionable to IR (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Dameon Pierce: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Dameon Pierce: 80 percent of the snaps and 66 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Chris Brooks's 35 percent of the snaps and 16 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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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.
RB · GB · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 279
RB · PHI · bye 10
2025 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 280
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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 Chris Brooks, and the board ranks him 279th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 280th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Chris Brooks, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Dameon Pierce, 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 so far
Through Week 4, Chris Brooks has been on the field for 40 percent of GB snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against NYJ he carried 4 times for 11 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against ATL he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TB he carried 4 times for 30 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
Through Week 7, Dameon Pierce has been on the field for 80 percent of PHI snaps, taken 66 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 47 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 13 two minute targets.
His 11 targets have come 0.9 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.
In Week 7 against DAL he carried 14 times for 47 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 1 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Chris Brooks played 17 games and scored 32.7 PPR points, 1.9 a game, finishing RB81.
He carried 27 times for 106 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 13 of 17 targets for 91 more yards.
That came to 1.6 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 0.8 catches a game.
He was on the field for 18 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.
Chris Brooks was available for 12 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Chris Brooks scored 1.9 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 1.2 a game between them.
Chris Brooks finished RB81 that year and Dameon Pierce RB128.
Chris Brooks had 13 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 27 to 14.
Chris Brooks had 13 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 13 to 0.
This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 40 percent.
This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger share of the carries, 66 percent against 21 percent.
Byes and availability
Chris Brooks is off in Week 11 and Dameon Pierce in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Chris Brooks is listed as ir on the injury report.
Dameon Pierce is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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