Two players, one answer.
Cyrus Allen vs Zachariah Branch
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
Zachariah Branch by 4% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Zachariah Branch by 17% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 58% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Zachariah Branch is projected 1.7 points ahead of Cyrus Allen. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 58% 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 · ATL
Zachariah Branch
3.0 projected
@ TB · Sun 1:00 PM ET
2.2 a game this season · last 3: 3.5, 0.9, 2.7
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
- Zachariah Branch's game has already kicked off, so most platforms have locked him in or out for this week.
What the call rests on
- Zachariah Branch: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sun, Nov 1, 1:30 PM ET
- Cyrus Allen: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sun, Nov 1, 1:30 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Sun, Nov 1, 1:34 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sun, Nov 1, 1:34 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 | Branch | Allen |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 3 | 1.3 |
| Half PPR | 2.4 | 1.1 |
| Standard | 1.8 | 0.8 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 1.7 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.
- Zachariah Branch plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Cyrus Allen'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%.