Should I start Keenan Allen or Dameon Pierce in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Keenan Allen's market-based projection is 10.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 80th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

Dameon Pierce's market-based projection is 10.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 86th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Keenan Allen, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Keenan Allen has been on the field for 59 percent of IND snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 6.5 air yards.

In Week 2 against KC he caught 1 of 5 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against HOU he caught 6 of 9 targets for 63 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against PIT he caught 5 of 9 targets for 45 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Keenan Allen played 17 games and scored 182.7 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR29.

He caught 81 of 122 targets for 777 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 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.

Keenan Allen was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Keenan Allen scored 10.7 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 10.0 a game between them.

Keenan Allen finished WR29 and Dameon Pierce RB128, which are two different ladders.

Keenan Allen 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

Keenan Allen is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Dameon Pierce.

What would change the answer

0.2 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.