Should I start Emanuel Wilson or Dameon Pierce in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 6:11 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Dameon Pierce: 77 percent of the snaps and 61 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Emanuel Wilson's 48 percent of the snaps and 66 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.
RB7 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-4
- Market-based projection
- 12.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 19
RB9 · PHI · bye 10
2025 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Market-based projection
- 10.4 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 26
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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 Emanuel Wilson, and the board ranks him 19th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Emanuel Wilson, 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 through Week 6
Through Week 6, Emanuel Wilson has been on the field for 39 percent of SEA snaps, taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 7 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 32 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have come 2.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 4 against LAC he carried 21 times for 81 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 5 against SF he carried 20 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against DEN he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Emanuel Wilson played 17 games and scored 94.5 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing RB49.
He carried 125 times for 496 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 15 of 17 targets for 99 more yards.
That came to 7.4 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.
He was on the field for 30 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.
Emanuel Wilson was available for 12 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Emanuel Wilson scored 5.6 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 4.8 a game between them.
Emanuel Wilson finished RB49 that year and Dameon Pierce RB128.
Emanuel Wilson had 111 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 125 to 14.
Emanuel Wilson had 15 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 15 to 0.
This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 39 percent.
This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger share of the carries, 74 percent against 54 percent.
Byes and availability
Emanuel Wilson is off in Week 11 and Dameon Pierce in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
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