Two players, one answer.
Devin Neal vs Sam Howell
Any league · this week start/sit · Standard
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
Devin Neal by 38% (Redraft standard)Dynasty
Sam Howell by 36% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · Standard · 50% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Sam Howell and Devin Neal are projected level. 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.
QB · DAL
Sam Howell
— final · points pending · 0.0 projected
vs ARI · Sun 1:00 PM ET
No games this season
RB · WAS
Devin Neal
0.0 projected
vs PHI · Sun 8:20 PM ET
No games this season
- Sam Howell's game has already kicked off, so most platforms have locked him in or out for this week.
What the call rests on
- Sam Howell: Sleeper's projection
- Devin Neal: Sleeper's projection
- Sleeper's projections read Sun, Nov 1, 6:36 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sun, Nov 1, 6:36 PM 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 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.
- Sam Howell plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Devin Neal's late news is known.
Open in Who should I start (your league, more players)
This week’s projections are Sleeper’s, scored with Standard 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%.