Start MarShawn Lloyd or Dameon Pierce? Week 8
Updated Oct 27, 11:01 AM ET. Locks at kickoff, graded after. Week 9 answer posts Tuesday.
Latest
- : Dameon Pierce: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Dameon Pierce over MarShawn Lloyd
- 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
- Market projects
- 5.6
- fantasy pts
- CAR D vs RB
- 28.7
- 2nd most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 38%
- Through Week 7
- Target share
- 6%
- Through Week 7
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Our Week 8 call
Start Dameon Pierce over MarShawn Lloyd in Week 8.
Market-based projections have Dameon Pierce at 6.0 points and MarShawn Lloyd at 5.6, a gap of 0.4. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. No player market is posted for Dameon Pierce this week yet, so his 6.0 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 5, 6 and 7 (3.8, 10.4 and 3.6); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.
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 5.6 fantasy points for MarShawn Lloyd, with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for MarShawn Lloyd is 19 rushing yards, 6 receiving yards and 0.3 touchdowns (12, 8 and 13 market sources).
That puts Dameon Pierce 0.4 points ahead of MarShawn Lloyd 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.
MarShawn Lloyd and GB host CAR on Thursday at 8:15 PM ET.
CAR allowed 28.7 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 6 games, the 2nd most in the league.
Running backs ran for 127 yards and 1-2 touchdowns a game against CAR and caught passes for 29 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, MarShawn Lloyd has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Dameon Pierce is listed as questionable with a undisclosed injury.
MarShawn Lloyd 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 7, MarShawn Lloyd played 38 percent of GB snaps, took 39 percent of the carries, drew 6 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.
MarShawn Lloyd, Week 4 against TB: 33 of 60 snaps, 7 carries for 13 yards, 5 targets and 5 catches for 36 yards.
MarShawn Lloyd, Week 5 against CHI: 27 of 61 snaps, 10 carries for 31 yards, 2 targets and 1 catch for 6 yards, 2 touchdowns.
MarShawn Lloyd, Week 6 against DAL: 30 of 75 snaps, 8 carries for 10 yards, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards.
MarShawn Lloyd, Week 7 against DET: 24 of 67 snaps, 6 carries for 20 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 10 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.
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 MarShawn Lloyd playing Week 8?
- Is Dameon Pierce playing Week 8?
- Packers 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