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Should I start Dameon Pierce or Lamar Jackson in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 8:06 AM ET.

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  • : Dameon Pierce: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Lamar Jackson: Questionable to Out (Ankle, Sprain) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Ravens' Lamar Jackson returns to practice but status remains unclear vs. Bengals (ESPN)

Start Dameon Pierce: 87 percent of the snaps and 74 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Lamar Jackson's 83 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.

Dameon Pierce

RB25 · PHI · bye 10

2025 vs anytime td line 0-4

Market-based projection
3.7 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
70

Lamar Jackson

QB8 · BAL · bye 13

2026 vs pass yds line 3-1

Market-based projection
16.9 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
72

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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 Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 3.

The market-based projections

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

The market-based projection for Lamar Jackson is 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 0 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

This season so far

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.

Through Week 4, Lamar Jackson has been on the field for 88 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 111 times and thrown 10.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 111 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.

In Week 2 against NO he completed 21 of 30 passes for 235 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 34 yards.

In Week 3 against DAL he completed 15 of 20 passes for 186 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 50 yards.

In Week 4 against TEN he completed 15 of 20 passes for 222 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 20 yards.

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 Lamar Jackson played 13 games and scored 221.9 PPR points, 17.1 a game, finishing QB20.

He threw for 2549 yards on 302 attempts with 21 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 349 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 23.2 attempts a game at 8.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 92 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Lamar Jackson was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Lamar Jackson scored 17.1 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 16.3 a game between them.

Dameon Pierce finished RB128 and Lamar Jackson QB20, which are two different ladders.

Dameon Pierce is a running back and Lamar Jackson a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Dameon Pierce is off in Week 10 and Lamar Jackson in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Lamar Jackson is listed as out on the injury report.

Both players in full

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