Two players, one answer.
Athan Kaliakmanis vs Cyrus Allen
Any league · this week start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 8 of 2026 (in progress)
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Cyrus Allen by 51% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Cyrus Allen by 7% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 56% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Cyrus Allen is projected 1.3 points ahead of Athan Kaliakmanis. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 56% 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.
WR · KC
Cyrus Allen
1.3 projected
@ DEN · Sun 4:25 PM ET
1.9 a game this season · last 3: 0, 4.7, 2.8
QB · WAS
Athan Kaliakmanis
0.0 projected
vs PHI · Sun 8:20 PM ET
12 a game this season · last 1: 12
What the call rests on
- Cyrus Allen: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 8:20 AM ET
- Athan Kaliakmanis: Sleeper's projection
- Sleeper's projections read Sat, Oct 31, 8:27 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sat, Oct 31, 8:27 AM 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 | Allen | Kaliakmanis |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 1.3 | 0 |
| Half PPR | 1.1 | 0 |
| Standard | 0.8 | 0 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 1.3 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.
- Cyrus Allen plays first (Sun 4:25 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Athan Kaliakmanis'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%.