Two players, one answer.
Bucky Irving vs Jordan Love
Any format · Week 8 start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 7 of 2026
This week
Toss-up · 17.2 to 16.5 projected (Week 8, PPR)
Rest of season
Bucky Irving by 57% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Bucky Irving by 7% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 53% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Jordan Love is projected 0.7 points ahead of Bucky Irving. 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.
QB · GB
Jordan Love
17.2 projected
vs CAR · Thu 8:15 PM ET
18.9 a game this season · last 3: 25.3, 21.2, 18
RB · TB
Bucky Irving
16.5 projected
vs ATL · Sun 1:00 PM ET
15.7 a game this season · last 3: 31.5, 6.9, 24
- Bucky Irving has scored 20.8 a game over his last three, above his 15.7 season average.
What the call rests on
- Jordan Love: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 2:00 PM ET
- Bucky Irving: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 2:00 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Tue, Oct 27, 2:14 PM ET.
- Injury statuses: Sleeper's player list, read Tue, Oct 27, 9:01 AM ET (once a day). Game-day inactives, about 90 minutes before kickoff, come after it.
| Same projections, scored | Love | Irving |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 17.2 | 16.5 |
| Half PPR | 17.2 | 14.9 |
| Standard | 17.2 | 13.2 |
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.
- Jordan Love plays first (Thu 8:15 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Bucky Irving'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%.