Should I start Dameon Pierce or Hunter Henry in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 6:16 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 Hunter Henry's 66 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets. 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.
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
TE4 · NE · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-4
- Market-based projection
- 8.8 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 Hunter Henry, and the board ranks him 27th 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.
Hunter Henry's market-based projection is 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 160 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, Hunter Henry has been on the field for 72 percent of NE snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 24 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.
In Week 4 against BUF he caught 5 of 5 targets for 62 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LV he caught 3 of 4 targets for 44 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 4 of 5 targets for 48 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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 Hunter Henry played 17 games and scored 178.8 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE9.
He caught 60 of 87 targets for 768 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 22 red zone targets.
That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 12.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Hunter Henry was available for 12 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Hunter Henry scored 10.5 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 9.8 a game between them.
Dameon Pierce finished RB128 and Hunter Henry TE9, which are two different ladders.
Dameon Pierce is a running back and Hunter Henry a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Dameon Pierce is off in Week 10 and Hunter Henry in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
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
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