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Should I start Dameon Pierce or Najee Harris in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 3:46 AM ET.

Week 7 verdict

RB · PHI · vs DAL

Market projects
7.1
recent weeks avg
DAL D vs RB
25.3
8th most to RBs (2026)
Snap share
77%
Through Week 6
Target share
12%
Through Week 6

RB · NYG · at HOU

Market projects
4.9
recent weeks avg
HOU D vs RB
16.7
4th fewest to RBs (2026)
Snap share
18%
Through Week 6
Target share
1%
Through Week 6
Start Pierce or Harris? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Dameon Pierce: 77 percent of the snaps and 61 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Najee Harris's 19 percent of the snaps and 26 percent of the carries. 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.

RB9 · PHI · bye 10

2025 vs anytime td line 0-4

Market-based projection
10.4 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
27

RB46 · NYG · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Market-based projection
8.2 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
159

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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 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Najee Harris, and the board ranks him 159th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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 Najee Harris is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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, Dameon Pierce has been on the field for 77 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 6, Najee Harris has been on the field for 18 percent of NYG snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he carried 9 times for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he carried 5 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 4 times for 2 yards and did not score.

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 Najee Harris played 3 games and scored 11.6 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing RB105.

He carried 15 times for 61 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 3 targets for 25 more yards.

That came to 5.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 1.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 21 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dameon Pierce was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Najee Harris scored 3.9 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 3.1 a game between them.

Dameon Pierce finished RB128 that year and Najee Harris RB105.

Najee Harris had 1 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 15 to 14.

Najee Harris had 3 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 3 to 0.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 18 percent.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger share of the carries, 74 percent against 24 percent.

Byes and availability

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

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