Two players, one answer.
Drake Dabney vs Rasheen Ali
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
Drake Dabney by 51% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
About even (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 51% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Rasheen Ali is projected 0.3 points ahead of Drake Dabney. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 51% 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 · BAL
Rasheen Ali
0.3 projected
@ BUF · Sun 1:00 PM ET
0.5 a game this season · last 3: 0, 0, 1.9
TE · GB
Drake Dabney
— final · points pending · 0.0 projected
vs CAR · Thu 8:15 PM ET
No games this season
- Drake Dabney's game has already kicked off, so most platforms have locked him in or out for this week.
What the call rests on
- Rasheen Ali: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 4:20 AM ET
- Drake Dabney: Sleeper's projection
- Sleeper's projections read Sat, Oct 31, 4:27 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sat, Oct 31, 4:27 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.
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.3 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.
- Drake Dabney plays first (Thu 8:15 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Rasheen Ali'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%.