Should I start James Conner or Dameon Pierce in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 12:11 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Dameon Pierce: Questionable to IR (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Dameon Pierce: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Dameon Pierce: he has been on the field this season, 80 percent of the snaps, and James Conner has no snap on record yet. 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.
RB · ARI · bye 14
- Overall rank
- 275
RB · PHI · bye 10
2025 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 280
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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 James Conner, and the board ranks him 275th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 280th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for James Conner, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Dameon Pierce, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 7
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for James Conner this season.
Through Week 7, Dameon Pierce has been on the field for 80 percent of PHI snaps, taken 66 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 47 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 13 two minute targets.
His 11 targets have come 0.9 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.
In Week 7 against DAL he carried 14 times for 47 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 1 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 James Conner played 3 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing RB80.
He carried 32 times for 95 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 8 of 9 targets for 38 more yards.
That came to 10.7 carries a game at 3.0 yards a carry and 2.7 catches a game.
He was on the field for 50 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.
Head to head
In 2025 James Conner scored 11.1 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 10.4 a game between them.
James Conner finished RB80 that year and Dameon Pierce RB128.
James Conner had 18 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 32 to 14.
James Conner had 8 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 8 to 0.
Byes and availability
James Conner is off in Week 14 and Dameon Pierce in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
James Conner is listed as ir on the injury report.
Dameon Pierce is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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