Two players, one answer.
Dallen Bentley vs Emari Demercado
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Dallen Bentley by 54% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Dallen Bentley by 23% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 51% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Dallen Bentley is projected 0.2 points ahead of Emari Demercado. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 51% 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.
TE · DEN
Dallen Bentley
0.2 projected
vs KC · Sun 4:25 PM ET
No games this season
RB · DAL
Emari Demercado
0.0 projected
vs ARI · Sun 1:00 PM ET
0.8 a game this season · last 2: 0.7, 0.8
What the call rests on
- Dallen Bentley: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 5:10 PM ET
- Emari Demercado: Sleeper's projection
- Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 5:19 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 5:19 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.
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.2 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.
- Emari Demercado plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Dallen Bentley'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%.