Two players, one answer.
Dean Connors vs Deion Burks
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
Dean Connors by 22% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Dean Connors by 4% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 52% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Deion Burks is projected 0.5 points ahead of Dean Connors. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 52% 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 · IND
Deion Burks
0.6 projected
@ JAX · Sun 1:00 PM ET
2.4 a game this season · last 3: 0, 6.8, 2.1
RB · LAR
Dean Connors
0.1 projected
vs LAC · Sun 4:05 PM ET
0 a game this season · last 1: 0
What the call rests on
- Deion Burks: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 5:20 AM ET
- Dean Connors: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 5:20 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Sat, Oct 31, 5:27 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sat, Oct 31, 5:27 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 | Burks | Connors |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| Half PPR | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| Standard | 0.4 | 0.1 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.5 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.
- Deion Burks plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Dean Connors'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%.