Two players, one answer.
Bucky Irving vs Josh Jacobs
Any format · Week 8 start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 7 of 2026
This week
Toss-up · 16.5 to 16.1 projected (Week 8, PPR)
Rest of season
Josh Jacobs by 13% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Bucky Irving by 30% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 52% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Bucky Irving is projected 0.4 points ahead of Josh Jacobs. 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.
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
RB · GB
Josh Jacobs
16.1 projected
vs CAR · Thu 8:15 PM ET
20.1 a game this season · last 1: 20.1
- Bucky Irving has scored 20.8 a game over his last three, above his 15.7 season average.
What the call rests on
- Bucky Irving: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 12:30 PM ET
- Josh Jacobs: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 12:30 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Tue, Oct 27, 12:54 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 | Irving | Jacobs |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 16.5 | 16.1 |
| Half PPR | 14.9 | 14.8 |
| Standard | 13.2 | 13.6 |
What could change it before kickoff
- 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.
- In standard scoring the call goes the other way: Josh Jacobs 13.6, Bucky Irving 13.2.
- Josh Jacobs 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%.