Two players, one answer.
Brevyn Spann-Ford vs Hayden Rucci
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
Brevyn Spann-Ford by 9% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Brevyn Spann-Ford by 7% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 53% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Brevyn Spann-Ford is projected 0.7 points ahead of Hayden Rucci. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 53% 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 · DAL
Brevyn Spann-Ford
1.3 projected
vs ARI · Sun 1:00 PM ET
2.4 a game this season · last 3: 0, 7.5, 3.1
TE · LAC
Hayden Rucci
0.6 projected
@ LAR · Sun 4:05 PM ET
3.9 a game this season · last 2: 7.7, 0
What the call rests on
- Brevyn Spann-Ford: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 10:20 PM ET
- Hayden Rucci: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 10:20 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Sat, Oct 31, 10:29 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sat, Oct 31, 10:29 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 | Spann-Ford | Rucci |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 1.3 | 0.6 |
| Half PPR | 1.1 | 0.5 |
| Standard | 0.8 | 0.3 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.7 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.
- Brevyn Spann-Ford plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Hayden Rucci'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%.