Two players, one answer.
Dean Connors vs Malik Benson
Any league · this week start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 7 of 2026
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Dean Connors by 37% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Dean Connors by 14% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 51% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Malik Benson is projected 0.3 points ahead of Dean Connors. 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 · LV
Malik Benson
0.4 projected
@ NYJ · Sun 1:00 PM ET
0.4 a game this season · last 3: 0, 1.6, 0
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
- Malik Benson: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 5:50 AM ET
- Dean Connors: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 5:50 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 5:50 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 5:50 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 | Benson | Connors |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Half PPR | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Standard | 0.3 | 0.1 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.3 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.
- Malik Benson 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%.