Two players, one answer.

Chase Brown vs Jonathan Taylor

Any format · Week 8 start/sit · PPR

Stats through week 7 of 2026

Week 8 · PPR · 56% held up in 2025

A toss-up

On Sleeper's projections, Chase Brown is projected 1.4 points ahead of Jonathan Taylor. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 56% 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 · CIN

Chase Brown

17.9 projected

vs TEN · Sun 1:00 PM ET

12.5 a game this season · last 3: 19.1, 7, 9.8

RB · IND

Jonathan Taylor

16.5 projected

@ JAX · Sun 1:00 PM ET

19.6 a game this season · last 3: 11.2, 21.1, 19

What the call rests on

  • Chase Brown: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 5:40 PM ET
  • Jonathan Taylor: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 5:40 PM ET
  • Sleeper's projections read Tue, Oct 27, 5:50 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, scoredBrownTaylor
PPR17.916.5
Half PPR15.915.5
Standard13.914.5

What could change it before kickoff

  • A projection update of 1.4 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: Jonathan Taylor 14.5, Chase Brown 13.9.

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%.