Two players, one answer.
Brandon Smith vs Dont'e Thornton Jr.
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
Brandon Smith by 76% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
About even (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 52% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Dont'e Thornton Jr. is projected 0.5 points ahead of Brandon Smith. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 52% 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 · LV
Dont'e Thornton Jr.
1.0 projected
@ NYJ · Sun 1:00 PM ET
No games this season
WR · PIT
Brandon Smith
0.5 projected
vs CLE · Sun 1:00 PM ET
4.4 a game this season · last 1: 4.4
What the call rests on
- Dont'e Thornton Jr.: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 7:30 PM ET
- Brandon Smith: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 7:30 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 7:36 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 7:36 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 | Jr. | Smith |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 1 | 0.5 |
| Half PPR | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| Standard | 0.7 | 0.3 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.5 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.
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%.