Should I start Dameon Pierce or Jaleel McLaughlin in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Dameon Pierce's market-based projection is 10.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 83rd highest figure of the 193 players with a market-based projection.

Jaleel McLaughlin's market-based projection is 9.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 89th highest figure of the 193 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaleel McLaughlin, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Dameon Pierce has been on the field for 77 percent of PHI snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 12 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 1.2 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.

Through Week 5, Jaleel McLaughlin has been on the field for 10 percent of CLE snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 1 time for 28 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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 Jaleel McLaughlin played 8 games and scored 31.4 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing RB82.

He carried 37 times for 187 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 4 of 6 targets for 27 more yards.

That came to 4.6 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 15 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jaleel McLaughlin was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jaleel McLaughlin scored 3.9 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 3.2 a game between them.

Dameon Pierce finished RB128 that year and Jaleel McLaughlin RB82.

Jaleel McLaughlin had 23 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 37 to 14.

Jaleel McLaughlin had 4 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 4 to 0.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 10 percent.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger share of the carries, 61 percent against 2 percent.

What would change the answer

0.8 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.