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Should I start Tyrone Tracy Jr. or Dameon Pierce in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 5:01 PM ET.

Week 7 verdict

Start

RB · PHI · vs DAL

Market projects
7.1
recent weeks avg
DAL D vs RB
23.2
10th most to RBs (2026)
Upside
High
98 of 100 at RB
Snap share
87%
Through Week 6
Target share
12%
Through Week 6
Sit

RB · NYG · at HOU

Market projects
6.3
fantasy pts
HOU D vs RB
18.9
9th fewest to RBs (2026)
Start Pierce or Tracy? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Dameon Pierce: 87 percent of the snaps and 74 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Tyrone Tracy Jr.'s 25 percent of the snaps and 14 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB27 · NYG · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
6.3 pts a game

RB38 · PHI · bye 10

2025 vs anytime td line 0-4

Market-based projection
10.4 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
109

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The gap

  • Board size311 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 Tyrone Tracy Jr., and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 109th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tyrone Tracy Jr.'s market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 115th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tyrone Tracy Jr. has been on the field for 15 percent of NYG snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 1.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he carried 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 6 times for 18 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 27 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyrone Tracy Jr. played 15 games and scored 160.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing RB28.

He carried 176 times for 740 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 48 targets for 288 more yards.

That came to 11.7 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 54 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.

Tyrone Tracy Jr. was available for 10 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tyrone Tracy Jr. scored 10.7 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 10.0 a game between them.

Tyrone Tracy Jr. finished RB28 that year and Dameon Pierce RB128.

Tyrone Tracy Jr. had 162 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 176 to 14.

Tyrone Tracy Jr. had 36 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 36 to 0.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger snap share, 87 percent against 15 percent.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger share of the carries, 74 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Tyrone Tracy Jr. is off in Week 8 and Dameon Pierce in Week 10, 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.

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