Two players, one answer.
Darius Cooper vs Nate Boerkircher
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Nate Boerkircher by 51% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Darius Cooper by 11% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 56% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Darius Cooper is projected 1.2 points ahead of Nate Boerkircher. 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.
WR · PHI
Darius Cooper
2.7 projected
@ WAS · Sun 8:20 PM ET
8.1 a game this season · last 3: 15.1, 1.9, 2.7
TE · JAX
Nate Boerkircher
1.5 projected
vs IND · Sun 1:00 PM ET
3.4 a game this season · last 3: 2.5, 4, 8.8
What the call rests on
- Darius Cooper: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 3:30 PM ET
- Nate Boerkircher: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 3:30 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 3:42 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 3:42 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 | Cooper | Boerkircher |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 2.7 | 1.5 |
| Half PPR | 2.2 | 1.2 |
| Standard | 1.8 | 0.9 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 1.2 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.
- Nate Boerkircher plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Darius Cooper'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%.