Two players, one answer.
Adam Trautman vs Malik McClain
Any league · this week start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 7 of 2026
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Malik McClain by 51% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Malik McClain by 74% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 57% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Adam Trautman is projected 1.6 points ahead of Malik McClain. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 57% of the time. That's close to a coin flip: on these projections neither is the better start, and an injury report or a projection update before kickoff can tip it.
TE · DEN
Adam Trautman
1.6 projected
vs KC · Sun 4:25 PM ET
1 a game this season · last 3: 3, 0, 0
WR · NYJ
Malik McClain
0.0 projected
vs LV · Sun 1:00 PM ET
0 a game this season · last 1: 0
What the call rests on
- Adam Trautman: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 2:30 PM ET
- Malik McClain: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 2:30 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 2:41 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 2:41 PM ET, with the projections (hourly). A fresh projection time doesn't mean every status is: game-day inactives, about 90 minutes before kickoff, can come after it.
| Same projections, scored | Trautman | McClain |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 1.6 | 0 |
| Half PPR | 1.3 | 0 |
| Standard | 0.9 | 0 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 1.6 points or more in the other direction flips the call; Sleeper keeps adjusting its projections until kickoff, and this page reads them again at most an hour after it last did.
- Malik McClain plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Adam Trautman's late news is known.
Open in Who should I start (your league, more players)
This week’s projections are Sleeper’s, scored with PPR settings. The percentage is how often a projected gap like this held up across the 2025 season; checked against 2026 games (not used to fit it), the stated chances so far run a few points high, so read a 60% call as nearer 55%.