Start Jeremy McNichols or Dameon Pierce? Week 8
Updated Oct 28, 4:26 PM ET. Locks at kickoff, graded after. Week 9 answer posts Tuesday.
Latest
- : Dameon Pierce: Questionable to IR (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Dameon Pierce: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Jeremy McNichols over Dameon Pierce
- Market projects
- 6.7
- fantasy pts
- PHI D vs RB
- 21.2
- 16th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 18%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 0%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 6.0
- recent weeks avg
- WAS D vs RB
- 19.0
- 7th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 80%
- Through Week 7
- Target share
- 10%
- Through Week 7
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Our Week 8 call
Start Jeremy McNichols over Dameon Pierce in Week 8.
Dameon Pierce is on injured reserve, so this is not a close call: start Jeremy McNichols. Market coverage on Jeremy McNichols is 70 percent of what his position needs, so the market side of this carries proportionally less weight.
What the market projects
No Week 8 player market is posted for Dameon Pierce yet. His market-based projections were 3.8, 10.4 and 3.6 points in Weeks 5, 6 and 7, an average of 6.0, which stands in until his Week 8 market posts.
Player markets imply 6.7 fantasy points for Jeremy McNichols, with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Jeremy McNichols is 27 rushing yards and 0.3 touchdowns (8 and 7 market sources).
That puts Jeremy McNichols 0.7 points ahead of Dameon Pierce on these projections.
Week 8 matchups
Dameon Pierce and PHI visit WAS on Sunday at 8:20 PM ET.
WAS allowed 19.0 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 6 games, the 7th fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 78 yards and 0.7 touchdowns a game against WAS and caught passes for 36 more yards.
Jeremy McNichols and WAS host PHI on Sunday at 8:20 PM ET.
PHI allowed 21.2 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 7 games, the 16th fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 117 yards and 0.7 touchdowns a game against PHI and caught passes for 20 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Jeremy McNichols has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Dameon Pierce is listed as ir.
Jeremy McNichols is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 8
Through Week 7, Dameon Pierce played 80 percent of PHI snaps, took 66 percent of the carries, drew 10 percent of the targets and had 47 percent of the red zone chances.
Dameon Pierce, Week 5 against JAX: 48 of 62 snaps, 11 carries for 14 yards, 5 targets and 2 catches for -2 yards.
Dameon Pierce, Week 6 against CAR: 61 of 64 snaps, 12 carries for 35 yards, 5 targets and 4 catches for 15 yards, 1 touchdown.
Dameon Pierce, Week 7 against DAL: 42 of 62 snaps, 14 carries for 47 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 1 yards, 1 touchdown.
Through Week 6, Jeremy McNichols played 18 percent of WAS snaps, took 31 percent of the carries, drew 0 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.
Jeremy McNichols, Week 6 against SF: 12 of 67 snaps, 5 carries for 13 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Dameon Pierce played 5 games for KC and scored 3.6 PPR points, 0.7 a game, finishing RB128.
He ran 14 times for 36 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards.
He was on the field for 8 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
In 2025, Jeremy McNichols played 17 games for WAS and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.
He ran 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 yards.
He was on the field for 33 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Jeremy McNichols, Week 18 of 2025 against PHI: 1 carry for 3 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 8 yards, 2.1 PPR points.
Jeremy McNichols, Week 17 of 2025 against DAL: 18 of 44 snaps, 1 carry for -2 yards, 3 targets and 3 catches for 12 yards, 4.0 PPR points.
Their other Week 8 calls
Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 8, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
Week 8 on the board
- Is Jeremy McNichols playing Week 8?
- Is Dameon Pierce playing Week 8?
- Commanders depth chart
- Eagles depth chart
- Week 8 RB rankings
- Week 8 fantasy rankings
- Week 8 start or sit
- Week 8 waiver wire
- Week 8 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 8
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 8 kicker rankings
- Week 8 defense rankings