Start Samaje Perine or Dameon Pierce? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Samaje Perine over Dameon Pierce
- Market projects
- 4.7
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 34%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 3.9
- fantasy pts
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Our Week 5 call
Start Samaje Perine over Dameon Pierce in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Samaje Perine at 4.7 points and Dameon Pierce at 3.9, a gap of 0.8. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 4.7 fantasy points for Samaje Perine, with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market has Samaje Perine at 14.5 rushing yards, with a 17% chance to score a touchdown (16 and 15 market sources).
Player markets imply 3.9 fantasy points for Dameon Pierce, with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market has Dameon Pierce at 22.5 rushing yards, with a 17% chance to score a touchdown (16 and 15 market sources).
That puts Samaje Perine 0.8 points ahead of Dameon Pierce on the market projections.
Injury status
Samaje Perine is not on the injury report.
Dameon Pierce is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Samaje Perine played 34 percent of CIN snaps, took 16 percent of the carries, drew 5 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
Samaje Perine, Week 1 against TB: 18 of 64 snaps, 5 carries for 20 yards, 3 targets and 3 catches for 30 yards.
Samaje Perine, Week 2 against HOU: 24 of 60 snaps, 2 carries for 6 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 16 yards.
Samaje Perine, Week 3 against PIT: 18 of 57 snaps, 3 carries for 9 yards, 3 targets and 1 catch for 5 yards.
Samaje Perine, Week 4 against JAX: 27 of 76 snaps, 3 carries for 7 yards, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Samaje Perine played 15 games for CIN and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.
He ran 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 yards.
He was on the field for 34 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
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.
Dameon Pierce, Week 18 of 2025 against LV: 4 carries for 10 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 1.0 PPR points.
Their other Week 5 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
RB50 · CIN · bye unlisted
2026 vs carries line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 184
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
Ranked behind
RB55 · PHI · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 199
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 5, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board15
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 9
- Board size280 draftable players
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