Two players, one answer.
Cole Payton vs Trevor Etienne
Any league · this week start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 8 of 2026 (in progress)
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Trevor Etienne by 54% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Trevor Etienne by 17% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 61% held up in 2025
Lean Trevor Etienne
On Sleeper's projections, Trevor Etienne is projected 2.6 points ahead of Cole Payton. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 61% of the time. A lean, not a lock.
RB · CAR
Trevor Etienne
0.1 final · 2.6 projected
@ GB · Thu 8:15 PM ET
1.5 a game this season · last 3: -0.1, 4.5, 0.1
QB · PHI
Cole Payton
0.0 projected
@ WAS · Sun 8:20 PM ET
No games this season
- Trevor Etienne's game has already kicked off, so most platforms have locked him in or out for this week.
What the call rests on
- Trevor Etienne: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 4:20 AM ET
- Cole Payton: Sleeper's projection
- Sleeper's projections read Sat, Oct 31, 4:27 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sat, Oct 31, 4:27 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 | Etienne | Payton |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 2.6 | 0 |
| Half PPR | 2.3 | 0 |
| Standard | 2 | 0 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 2.6 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.
- Trevor Etienne plays first (Thu 8:15 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Cole Payton'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%.