Two players, one answer.
Dont'e Thornton Jr. vs Sione Vaki
Any league · this week start/sit · PPR
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
Sione Vaki by 18% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Dont'e Thornton Jr. by 14% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 63% held up in 2025
Lean Sione Vaki
On Sleeper's projections, Sione Vaki is projected 2.8 points ahead of Dont'e Thornton Jr.. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 63% of the time. A lean, not a lock.
RB · DET
Sione Vaki
3.8 projected
vs MIN · Sun 1:00 PM ET
2.5 a game this season · last 3: 2.7, 1.1, 0.5
WR · LV
Dont'e Thornton Jr.
1.0 projected
@ NYJ · Sun 1:00 PM ET
No games this season
What the call rests on
- Sione Vaki: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 8:20 AM ET
- Dont'e Thornton Jr.: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 8:20 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Sat, Oct 31, 8:27 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sat, Oct 31, 8:27 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 | Vaki | Jr. |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 3.8 | 1 |
| Half PPR | 3.3 | 0.8 |
| Standard | 2.9 | 0.7 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 2.8 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%.