Should I start Dameon Pierce or Jacoby Brissett in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacoby Brissett, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 44.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Dameon Pierce is 3.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jacoby Brissett's market-based projection is 15.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 43rd highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based projection.

Dameon Pierce's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Dameon Pierce has been on the field for 87 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, Jacoby Brissett has been on the field for 100 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 249 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 38 of 249 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 4 against NYG he completed 21 of 35 passes for 166 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions and ran 4 times for 18 yards.

In Week 5 against DET he completed 29 of 46 passes for 292 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 19 yards.

In Week 6 against LAR he completed 24 of 35 passes for 218 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 2 yards.

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 Jacoby Brissett played 14 games and scored 235.4 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB16.

He threw for 3366 yards on 485 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 168 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 34.6 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jacoby Brissett was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jacoby Brissett scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 16.1 a game between them.

Dameon Pierce finished RB128 and Jacoby Brissett QB16, which are two different ladders.

Dameon Pierce is a running back and Jacoby Brissett a quarterback, 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 Jacoby Brissett in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Dameon Pierce has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.