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Should I start Jameis Winston or Dameon Pierce in Week 7?

Updated Oct 22, 2:41 AM ET.

Start Dameon Pierce: 87 percent of the snaps and 74 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jameis Winston's 85 percent of the snaps and 0 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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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.

QB23 · NYG · bye 8

2026 vs pass yds line 2-3

Market-based projection
14.6 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
130

RB42 · PHI · bye 10

2025 vs anytime td line 0-4

Market-based projection
10.4 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
131

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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 Jameis Winston, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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

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.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jameis Winston has been on the field for 88 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 178 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 178 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 4 against ARI he completed 18 of 29 passes for 250 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

In Week 5 against WAS he completed 33 of 54 passes for 326 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 28 yards.

In Week 6 against NO he completed 14 of 26 passes for 152 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

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 Jameis Winston played 3 games and scored 45.3 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing QB46.

He threw for 567 yards on 66 attempts with 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, and ran for 23 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 22.0 attempts a game at 8.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 39 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.

Dameon Pierce was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jameis Winston scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 14.4 a game between them.

Jameis Winston finished QB46 and Dameon Pierce RB128, which are two different ladders.

Jameis Winston is a quarterback 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

Jameis Winston is off in Week 8 and Dameon Pierce in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

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