Two players, one answer.
Drew Sample vs KeAndre Lambert-Smith
Any league · this week start/sit · Half 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
KeAndre Lambert-Smith by 31% (Redraft half PPR)Dynasty
KeAndre Lambert-Smith by 84% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · Half PPR · 54% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Drew Sample is projected 0.8 points ahead of KeAndre Lambert-Smith. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 54% 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 · CIN
Drew Sample
— final · points pending · 2.6 projected
vs TEN · Sun 1:00 PM ET
3.6 a game this season · last 3: 0.5, 1, 9.4
WR · LAC
KeAndre Lambert-Smith
1.8 projected
@ LAR · Sun 4:05 PM ET
3.7 a game this season · last 1: 3.7
- Their games have already kicked off, so most platforms have locked them in or out for this week.
What the call rests on
- Drew Sample: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sun, Nov 1, 5:30 PM ET
- KeAndre Lambert-Smith: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sun, Nov 1, 5:30 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Sun, Nov 1, 5:35 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sun, Nov 1, 5:35 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.
| Same projections, scored | Sample | Lambert-Smith |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 3.4 | 2.1 |
| Half PPR | 2.6 | 1.8 |
| Standard | 1.9 | 1.4 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.8 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.
- Drew Sample plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before KeAndre Lambert-Smith's late news is known.
Open in Who should I start (your league, more players)
This week’s projections are Sleeper’s, scored with Half 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%.