Two players, one answer.
Demond Claiborne vs Robert Tonyan
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
Demond Claiborne by 70% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Demond Claiborne by 100% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 50% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Robert Tonyan is projected 0.1 points ahead of Demond Claiborne. 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.
TE · PIT
Robert Tonyan
0.1 projected
vs CLE · Sun 1:00 PM ET
1.2 a game this season · last 1: 1.2
RB · MIN
Demond Claiborne
0.0 projected
@ DET · Sun 1:00 PM ET
1 a game this season · last 3: 0.1, 1.2, 1.6
What the call rests on
- Robert Tonyan: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 11:30 AM ET
- Demond Claiborne: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 11:30 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 11:31 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 11:31 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.
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%.