Two players, one answer.
Cyrus Allen vs Elijah Mitchell
Any league · this week start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 7 of 2026
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Elijah Mitchell by 8% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Cyrus Allen by 44% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 53% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Elijah Mitchell is projected 0.7 points ahead of Cyrus Allen. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 53% 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 · PHI
Elijah Mitchell
2.0 projected
@ WAS · Sun 8:20 PM ET
6.4 a game this season · last 1: 6.4
WR · KC
Cyrus Allen
1.3 projected
@ DEN · Sun 4:25 PM ET
1.9 a game this season · last 3: 0, 4.7, 2.8
What the call rests on
- Elijah Mitchell: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 1:20 AM ET
- Cyrus Allen: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 1:20 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 1:24 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 1:24 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 | Mitchell | Allen |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 2 | 1.3 |
| Half PPR | 1.8 | 1.1 |
| Standard | 1.6 | 0.8 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.7 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.
- Cyrus Allen plays first (Sun 4:25 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Elijah Mitchell'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%.