Should I start Dameon Pierce or Mike Gesicki in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Gesicki, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

Mike Gesicki's market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 119th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Dameon Pierce's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

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 5, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 46 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against PIT he caught 3 of 3 targets for 37 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 3 of 5 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.

He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Mike Gesicki was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Mike Gesicki scored 5.4 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 4.7 a game between them.

Dameon Pierce finished RB128 and Mike Gesicki TE41, which are two different ladders.

Dameon Pierce is a running back and Mike Gesicki a tight end, 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 Mike Gesicki in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Dameon Pierce has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.