Two players, one answer.
Carnell Tate vs Rashee Rice
Any league · Week 8 start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 7 of 2026
This week
Toss-up · 13.6 to 12.6 projected (Week 8, PPR)
Rest of season
Rashee Rice by 18% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Carnell Tate by 13% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 54% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Carnell Tate is projected 1 point ahead of Rashee Rice. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 54% 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.
WR · TEN
Carnell Tate
13.6 projected
@ CIN · Sun 1:00 PM ET
11 a game this season · last 3: 1.6, 19, 9.9
WR · KC
Rashee Rice
12.6 projected
@ DEN · Sun 4:25 PM ETQuestionable
12.7 a game this season · last 3: 9.9, 12.3, 15.8
- Rashee Rice is questionable. The projection assumes he plays; if he's ruled out, the next player up is the call.
What the call rests on
- Carnell Tate: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 10:10 AM ET
- Rashee Rice: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 10:10 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 10:20 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 10:20 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 | Tate | Rice |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 13.6 | 12.6 |
| Half PPR | 11 | 10.4 |
| Standard | 8.4 | 8.1 |
What could change it before kickoff
- Rashee Rice's status (questionable): if he's ruled out, Carnell Tate is the start.
- A projection update of 1 point 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.
- Carnell Tate plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Rashee Rice'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%.