Two players, one answer.
Elijah Mitchell vs Josh Cuevas
Any format · this week start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 7 of 2026
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Josh Cuevas by 38% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Josh Cuevas by 45% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 51% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Elijah Mitchell is projected 0.3 points ahead of Josh Cuevas. 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 · PHI
Elijah Mitchell
2.0 projected
@ WAS · Sun 8:20 PM ET
6.4 a game this season · last 1: 6.4
TE · BAL
Josh Cuevas
1.7 projected
@ BUF · Sun 1:00 PM ET
5.4 a game this season · last 3: 4.6, 14.4, 5.5
What the call rests on
- Elijah Mitchell: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 2:10 PM ET
- Josh Cuevas: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 2:10 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Tue, Oct 27, 2:24 PM ET.
- Injury statuses: Sleeper's player list, read Tue, Oct 27, 9:01 AM ET (once a day). Game-day inactives, about 90 minutes before kickoff, come after it.
| Same projections, scored | Mitchell | Cuevas |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 2 | 1.7 |
| Half PPR | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| Standard | 1.6 | 1.1 |
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.
- Josh Cuevas plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Elijah Mitchell'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%.