Two players, one answer.

Dean Connors vs Nick Muse

Any league · this week start/sit · PPR

Stats through week 8 of 2026 (in progress)

Dean Connors · Nick Muse

Week 8 · PPR · 50% held up in 2025

A toss-up

On Sleeper's projections, Dean Connors is projected 0.1 points ahead of Nick Muse. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 50% 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.

RB · LAR

Dean Connors

0.1 projected

vs LAC · Sun 4:05 PM ET

0 a game this season · last 1: 0

TE · ATL

Nick Muse

0.0 projected

@ TB · Sun 1:00 PM ET

2.7 a game this season · last 3: 0, 0, 8.2

What the call rests on

  • Dean Connors: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 12:00 AM ET
  • Nick Muse: Sleeper's projection
  • Sleeper's projections read Sat, Oct 31, 12:00 AM ET.
  • Injury statuses read Sat, Oct 31, 12:00 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.

What could change it before kickoff

  • A projection update of 0.1 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.
  • Nick Muse 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%.