Start Woody Marks or Dameon Pierce? Week 7
Updated Oct 21, 8:56 AM ET. Locks at kickoff, graded after. Week 8 answer posts Tuesday.
Start Woody Marks over Dameon Pierce
- Market projects
- 9.2
- recent weeks avg
- NYG D vs RB
- 21.6
- 15th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 57%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 8%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 7.1
- recent weeks avg
- DAL D vs RB
- 23.2
- 10th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 87%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 12%
- Through Week 6
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Our Week 7 call
Start Woody Marks over Dameon Pierce in Week 7.
Market-based projections have Woody Marks at 9.2 points and Dameon Pierce at 7.1, a gap of 2.1. No player market is posted for Woody Marks this week yet, so his 9.2 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 4, 5 and 6 (7.8, 7.8 and 12.0); the call is rebuilt when his market posts. No player market is posted for Dameon Pierce this week yet, so his 7.1 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 5 and 6 (3.8 and 10.4); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.
What the market projects
No Week 7 player market is posted for Woody Marks yet. His market-based projections were 7.9, 7.8 and 12.0 points in Weeks 4, 5 and 6, an average of 9.2, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.
The market-based projection for Woody Marks is 0.8 touchdowns (8 market sources).
No Week 7 player market is posted for Dameon Pierce yet. His market-based projections were 3.8 and 10.4 points in Weeks 5 and 6, an average of 7.1, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.
The market-based projection for Dameon Pierce is 0.6 touchdowns (11 market sources).
That puts Woody Marks 2.1 points ahead of Dameon Pierce on these projections.
Week 7 matchups
Woody Marks and HOU host NYG on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
NYG allowed 21.6 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 6 games, the 15th most in the league.
Running backs ran for 108 yards and 0-1 touchdowns a game against NYG and caught passes for 22 more yards.
Dameon Pierce and PHI host DAL on Monday at 8:15 PM ET.
DAL allowed 23.2 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 6 games, the 10th most in the league.
Running backs ran for 104 yards and 0.8 touchdowns a game against DAL and caught passes for 24 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Dameon Pierce has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Woody Marks is not on the injury report.
Dameon Pierce is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 7
Through Week 6, Woody Marks played 57 percent of HOU snaps, took 41 percent of the carries, drew 8 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.
Woody Marks, Week 3 against IND: 20 of 54 snaps, 5 carries for 15 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 6 yards, 1 touchdown.
Woody Marks, Week 4 against DAL: 24 of 55 snaps, 6 carries for 22 yards, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards, 1 touchdown.
Woody Marks, Week 5 against TEN: 56 of 66 snaps, 15 carries for 62 yards, 4 targets and 4 catches for 23 yards.
Woody Marks, Week 6 against JAX: 49 of 63 snaps, 15 carries for 56 yards, 3 targets and 2 catches for 25 yards.
Through Week 6, Dameon Pierce played 87 percent of PHI snaps, took 74 percent of the carries, drew 12 percent of the targets and had 43 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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Woody Marks played 16 games for HOU and scored 151.1 PPR points, 9.4 a game, finishing RB29.
He ran 196 times for 703 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 36 targets for 208 yards.
He was on the field for 53 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 7 calls
Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 7, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
Week 7 on the board
- Is Woody Marks playing Week 7?
- Is Dameon Pierce playing Week 7?
- Texans depth chart
- Eagles depth chart
- Week 7 RB rankings
- Week 7 fantasy rankings
- Week 7 start or sit
- Week 7 waiver wire
- Week 7 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 7
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 7 kicker rankings
- Week 7 defense rankings