Samaje Perine or Dameon Pierce: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Samaje Perine at 4.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 164th highest figure of the 220 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 178th highest figure of the 220 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Samaje Perine: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 184th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dameon Pierce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 199th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 34 percent of CIN snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against HOU he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 4.5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 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.

Samaje Perine was available for 10 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 4.5 a game between them.

Samaje Perine finished RB57 that year and Dameon Pierce RB128.

Samaje Perine had 70 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 84 to 14.

Samaje Perine had 17 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 17 to 0.

What would change the answer

0.7 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.