Raheim Sanders or Dameon Pierce: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Raheim Sanders at 4.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 172nd highest figure of the 214 players the market prices.

The player markets price Dameon Pierce at 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 175th highest figure of the 214 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Raheim Sanders: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 194th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dameon Pierce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 197th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Raheim Sanders has been on the field for 33 percent of CLE snaps, taken 6 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have come 1.5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against TB he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 1 time for 17 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Dameon Pierce this season.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Raheim Sanders played 4 games and scored 20.3 PPR points, 5.1 a game, finishing RB95.

He carried 27 times for 92 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 3 of 4 targets for 21 more yards.

That came to 6.8 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 0.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 12 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 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Raheim Sanders scored 5.1 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 4.4 a game between them.

Raheim Sanders finished RB95 that year and Dameon Pierce RB128.

Raheim Sanders had 13 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 27 to 14.

Raheim Sanders had 3 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 3 to 0.

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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.