Two players, one answer.
Elijah Higgins vs Jeremy McNichols
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
Jeremy McNichols by 24% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Elijah Higgins by 42% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 57% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Elijah Higgins is projected 1.5 points ahead of Jeremy McNichols. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 57% 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 · ARI
Elijah Higgins
4.5 projected
@ DAL · Sun 1:00 PM ET
5.7 a game this season · last 3: 8.7, 5.8, 4.7
RB · WAS
Jeremy McNichols
3.0 projected
vs PHI · Sun 8:20 PM ET
1.3 a game this season · last 1: 1.3
What the call rests on
- Elijah Higgins: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 10:20 AM ET
- Jeremy McNichols: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 10:20 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Sat, Oct 31, 10:27 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sat, Oct 31, 10:27 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 | Higgins | McNichols |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 4.5 | 3 |
| Half PPR | 3.5 | 2.6 |
| Standard | 2.6 | 2.2 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 1.5 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.
- Elijah Higgins plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Jeremy McNichols'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%.