Should I start Dameon Pierce or Tommy Tremble in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 6:16 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 27, 10:58 AM ET: Dameon Pierce: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Dameon Pierce: 80 percent of the snaps and 66 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Tommy Tremble's 57 percent of the snaps and 10 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.

Should I drop Dameon Pierce for Tommy Tremble?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Tommy Tremble projects 51 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (5.1 a game over 10 games), Dameon Pierce 21 (2.3 a game over 9 games). Dameon Pierce is listed questionable.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Dameon Pierce

RB35 · PHI · bye 10

2025 vs anytime td line 0-4

Market-based projection: 3.7 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 103

Tommy Tremble

TE13 · CAR · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection: 5.2 pts a game

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The gap

Board size296 draftable players

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 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tommy Tremble, and the board ranks him 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Dameon Pierce is 3.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 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.

Tommy Tremble's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 201 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 through Week 7

Through Week 7, Dameon Pierce has been on the field for 80 percent of PHI snaps, taken 66 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 47 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have come 0.9 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.

In Week 7 against DAL he carried 14 times for 47 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 1 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, Tommy Tremble has been on the field for 55 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 46 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 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 Tommy Tremble played 17 games and scored 63.9 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing TE42.

He caught 27 of 37 targets for 249 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tommy Tremble was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tommy Tremble scored 3.8 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 3.0 a game between them.

Dameon Pierce finished RB128 and Tommy Tremble TE42, which are two different ladders.

Dameon Pierce is a running back and Tommy Tremble 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. No bye is listed for Tommy Tremble.

Dameon Pierce is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Dameon Pierce for Tommy Tremble?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Tommy Tremble projects 51 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (5.1 a game over 10 games), Dameon Pierce 21 (2.3 a game over 9 games). Dameon Pierce is listed questionable.
Should I drop Tommy Tremble for Dameon Pierce?
No. Keep Tommy Tremble: he projects 51 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (5.1 a game over 10 games), Dameon Pierce 21 (2.3 a game over 9 games). Dameon Pierce is listed questionable.

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