Two players, one answer.
Bryce Young vs Jayden Daniels
This week
Toss-up · 18.1 to 17.9 projected (Week 8, Half PPR)
Rest of season
Jayden Daniels by 56% (Redraft half PPR)Dynasty
Jayden Daniels by 38% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · Half PPR · 51% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Jayden Daniels is projected 0.2 points ahead of Bryce Young. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 51% 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.
QB · WAS
Jayden Daniels
18.1 projected
vs PHI · Sun 8:20 PM ET
21.4 a game this season · last 3: 14.7, 32.3, 21
QB · CAR
Bryce Young
17.9 projected
@ GB · Thu 8:15 PM ET
20 a game this season · last 3: 21.5, 19.8, 7.4
What the call rests on
- Jayden Daniels: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 2:10 PM ET
- Bryce Young: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 2:10 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Thu, Oct 29, 2:14 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Thu, Oct 29, 2:14 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.
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.2 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.
- Bryce Young plays first (Thu 8:15 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Jayden Daniels's late news is known.
Open in Who should I start (your league, more players)
This week’s projections are Sleeper’s, scored with Half 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%.