Should I start Dameon Pierce or Elijah Mitchell in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 12:21 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : 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 Elijah Mitchell's 0 percent of the snaps and 12 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 · PHI · bye 10
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- Overall rank
- 280
RB · PHI · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 285
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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 280th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Elijah Mitchell, and the board ranks him 285th 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 Elijah Mitchell, 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 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.
Through Week 8, Elijah Mitchell has been on the field for 0 percent of PHI snaps, taken 26 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 20 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 17 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 7 against DAL he carried 3 times for 11 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against WAS he carried 11 times for 34 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 3 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 Elijah Mitchell played 1 game, finishing RB149.
He carried 0 times for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 1 target for 0 more yards.
He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Dameon Pierce was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
Dameon Pierce finished RB128 that year and Elijah Mitchell RB149.
Dameon Pierce had 14 more carries than Elijah Mitchell, 14 to 0.
This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 0 percent.
This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger share of the carries, 66 percent against 26 percent.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Dameon Pierce is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
Week 8 on the board
- Is Dameon Pierce playing Week 8?
- Is Elijah Mitchell playing Week 8?
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- Week 8 fantasy rankings
- Week 8 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
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- Start 'em sit 'em Week 8
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- Fantasy sleepers
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- Week 8 kicker rankings
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