Should I start Jakobi Meyers or Dameon Pierce in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jakobi Meyers, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jakobi Meyers is 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

No season market is posted for Dameon Pierce, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 80 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against HOU he caught 5 of 10 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jakobi Meyers played 16 games and scored 175.8 PPR points, 11.0 a game, finishing WR32.

He caught 75 of 110 targets for 835 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 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.

Jakobi Meyers was available for 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jakobi Meyers scored 11.0 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 10.3 a game between them.

Jakobi Meyers finished WR32 and Dameon Pierce RB128, which are two different ladders.

Jakobi Meyers is a wide receiver and Dameon Pierce a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jakobi Meyers is off in Week 7 and Dameon Pierce in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.