Two players, one answer.

Bucky Irving vs Zay Flowers

Any league · Week 8 start/sit · PPR

Stats through week 7 of 2026

This week
Start Zay Flowers · 18.4 to 16.6 projected (Week 8, PPR)
Rest of season
Zay Flowers by 11% (redraft PPR)
Dynasty
Zay Flowers by 11% (Dynasty Superflex)

Week 8 · PPR · 58% held up in 2025

Lean Zay Flowers

On Sleeper's projections, Zay Flowers is projected 1.8 points ahead of Bucky Irving. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 58% of the time. A lean, not a lock.

WR · BAL

Zay Flowers

18.4 projected

@ BUF · Sun 1:00 PM ET

20.4 a game this season · last 3: 14.6, 12.7, 27.7

RB · TB

Bucky Irving

16.6 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

Zay Flowers: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 8:00 AM ET
Bucky Irving: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 8:00 AM ET
Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 8:09 AM ET.
Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 8:09 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	Flowers	Irving
PPR	18.4	16.6
Half PPR	15.6	14.9
Standard	12.7	13.3

What could change it before kickoff

A projection update of 1.8 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: Bucky Irving 13.3, Zay Flowers 12.7.

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%.