The Eagles on Thursday agreed to a one-year contract with veteran running back Dameon Pierce.<\/p>\n
Pierce, 26, was a fourth-round pick of the Houston Texans out of Florida in the 2022 and had his best season as a rookie.<\/p>\n
In Philadelphia, Pierce will join a running back room that already includes Saquon Barkley, Tank Bigsby, Will Shipley and Carson Steele. Former Eagles running back A.J. Dillon signed with the Carolina Panthers this week.<\/p>\n
Pierce is a big, powerful back at 5-foot-10, 215 pounds. As a rookie with the Texans in 2022, Pierce had 220 rushing attempts for 939 yards and 4 touchdowns. Pierce was the Texans\u2019 leading rusher that season.<\/p>\n
But since that rookie season, Pierce\u2019s career has tapered off. In 2023, Pierce lost his starting job and rushed for 416 yards, and then rushed for just 293 in 2024.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Pierce began the season as the Texans\u2019 third-string running back but was waived in November. He signed to the Chiefs\u2019 practice squad and saw action in one game with 4 carries for 10 yards.<\/p>\n
In his four-year NFL career, Pierce has 419 rushing attempts for 1,684 yards and 8 touchdowns. He caught 43 passes in his first two NFL season but has just two receptions since.<\/p>\n
Pierce has some experience returning kickoffs too. He has 20 career returns with an average of 32.8 yards per return and he took one 98 yards to the house as a rookie.<\/p>\n
One of Pierce\u2019s best games in the NFL came against the Eagles as a rookie in Week 9 of the 2022 season. In that game, he rushed for 139 yards on 27 carries for an average of 5.1 yards per rush. The Eagles beat the Texans 29-17 at NRG Stadium that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles on Thursday agreed to a one-year contract with veteran running back Dameon Pierce. Pierce, 26, was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[1537,7,221,253,2368,6,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-821697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-eagles-news","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-texans","12":"tag-houstontexans","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116257425221865873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}