Two players, one answer.
Brock Bowers vs Trey McBride
This week
Toss-up · 11.4 to 11 projected (Week 8, Standard)
Rest of season
Trey McBride by 17% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Brock Bowers by 5% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · Standard · 53% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Trey McBride is projected 0.4 points ahead of Brock Bowers. 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 · ARI
Trey McBride
11.4 projected
@ DAL · Sun 1:00 PM ET
10.2 a game this season · last 3: 12.6, 5.3, 17.1
TE · LV
Brock Bowers
11.0 projected
@ NYJ · Sun 1:00 PM ETQuestionable
12.3 a game this season · last 3: 15, 7, 7.3
- Brock Bowers is questionable. The projection assumes he plays; if he's ruled out, the next player up is the call.
What the call rests on
- Trey McBride: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 6:00 AM ET
- Brock Bowers: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 6:00 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Thu, Oct 29, 6:09 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Thu, Oct 29, 6:09 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 | McBride | Bowers |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 19.3 | 17.2 |
| Half PPR | 15.3 | 14.1 |
| Standard | 11.4 | 11 |
What could change it before kickoff
- Brock Bowers's status (questionable): if he's ruled out, Trey McBride is the start.
- A projection update of 0.4 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 Standard 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%.