Two players, one answer.
Darius Cooper vs Zachariah Branch
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
About even (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Zachariah Branch by 7% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 51% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Zachariah Branch is projected 0.2 points ahead of Darius Cooper. 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.
WR · ATL
Zachariah Branch
2.9 projected
@ TB · Sun 1:00 PM ET
2.2 a game this season · last 3: 3.5, 0.9, 2.7
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
What the call rests on
- Zachariah Branch: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 1:40 AM ET
- Darius Cooper: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 1:40 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Thu, Oct 29, 1:46 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Thu, Oct 29, 1:46 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 | Branch | Cooper |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 2.9 | 2.7 |
| Half PPR | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| Standard | 1.8 | 1.8 |
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.
- In standard scoring the call goes the other way: Darius Cooper 1.8, Zachariah Branch 1.8.
- Zachariah Branch 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%.