Two players, one answer.

AJ Barner vs Dallas Goedert

Any format · Week 8 start/sit · PPR

Stats through week 7 of 2026

Week 8 · PPR · 58% held up in 2025

A toss-up

On Sleeper's projections, Dallas Goedert is projected 1.6 points ahead of AJ Barner. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 58% 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 · PHI

Dallas Goedert

9.9 projected

@ WAS · Sun 8:20 PM ET

11.4 a game this season · last 3: 9.8, 12.1, 9.8

TE · SEA

AJ Barner

8.3 projected

vs CHI · Mon 8:15 PM ET

6.2 a game this season · last 3: 5, 4.6, 8.6

What the call rests on

  • Dallas Goedert: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 2:00 PM ET
  • AJ Barner: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 2:00 PM ET
  • Sleeper's projections read Tue, Oct 27, 2:07 PM ET.
  • Injury statuses: Sleeper's player list, read Tue, Oct 27, 9:01 AM ET (once a day). Game-day inactives, about 90 minutes before kickoff, come after it.
Same projections, scoredGoedertBarner
PPR9.98.3
Half PPR8.36.7
Standard6.65.2

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.
  • Dallas Goedert plays first (Sun 8:20 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before AJ Barner'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%.