Should I start Woody Marks or Dameon Pierce in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Woody Marks, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Woody Marks is 3.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

The market-based projection for Dameon Pierce is 3.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 11 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Woody Marks has been on the field for 57 percent of HOU snaps, taken 41 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 4 against DAL he carried 6 times for 22 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against TEN he carried 15 times for 62 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against JAX he carried 15 times for 56 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

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 Woody Marks played 16 games and scored 151.1 PPR points, 9.4 a game, finishing RB29.

He carried 196 times for 703 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 36 targets for 208 more yards.

That came to 12.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 53 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.

Woody Marks was available for 11 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Woody Marks scored 9.4 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 8.7 a game between them.

Woody Marks finished RB29 that year and Dameon Pierce RB128.

Woody Marks had 182 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 196 to 14.

Woody Marks had 24 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 24 to 0.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger snap share, 87 percent against 57 percent.

This season Dameon Pierce holds the bigger share of the carries, 74 percent against 41 percent.

Byes and availability

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