Two players, one answer.
Deion Burks vs Emari Demercado
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Deion Burks by 35% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Deion Burks by 45% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 53% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Deion Burks is projected 0.6 points ahead of Emari Demercado. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 53% 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 · DAL
Emari Demercado
0.0 projected
vs ARI · Sun 1:00 PM ET
0.8 a game this season · last 2: 0.7, 0.8
What the call rests on
- Deion Burks: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 8:10 AM ET
- Emari Demercado: Sleeper's projection
- Sleeper's projections read Thu, Oct 29, 8:25 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Thu, Oct 29, 8:25 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 | Demercado |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 0.6 | 0 |
| Half PPR | 0.5 | 0 |
| Standard | 0.4 | 0 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.6 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.
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%.