Two players, one answer.
Calvin Ridley vs Cole Payton
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Calvin Ridley by 74% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Cole Payton by 31% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 62% held up in 2025
Lean Calvin Ridley
On Sleeper's projections, Calvin Ridley is projected 2.9 points ahead of Cole Payton. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 62% of the time. A lean, not a lock.
WR · TEN
Calvin Ridley
2.9 projected
@ CIN · Sun 1:00 PM ETQuestionable
2.6 a game this season · last 3: 2.3, 5.3, 0
QB · PHI
Cole Payton
0.0 projected
@ WAS · Sun 8:20 PM ET
No games this season
- Calvin Ridley is questionable. The projection assumes he plays; if he's ruled out, the next player up is the call.
What the call rests on
- Calvin Ridley: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 8:50 PM ET
- Cole Payton: Sleeper's projection
- Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 8:53 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 8:53 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.
| Same projections, scored | Ridley | Payton |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 2.9 | 0 |
| Half PPR | 2.4 | 0 |
| Standard | 1.9 | 0 |
What could change it before kickoff
- Calvin Ridley's status (questionable): if he's ruled out, Cole Payton is the start.
- A projection update of 2.9 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.
- Calvin Ridley plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Cole Payton's late news is known.
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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%.