Two players, one answer.
Evan Engram vs Sione Vaki
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Evan Engram by 67% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Sione Vaki by 56% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 55% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Evan Engram is projected 1 point ahead of Sione Vaki. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 55% 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 · DEN
Evan Engram
4.8 projected
vs KC · Sun 4:25 PM ET
4.7 a game this season · last 3: 9.5, 3.3, 1.2
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
What the call rests on
- Evan Engram: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 2:50 AM ET
- Sione Vaki: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 2:50 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Thu, Oct 29, 2:55 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Thu, Oct 29, 2:55 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 | Engram | Vaki |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 4.8 | 3.8 |
| Half PPR | 3.8 | 3.3 |
| Standard | 2.8 | 2.9 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 1 point 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.
- In standard scoring the call goes the other way: Sione Vaki 2.9, Evan Engram 2.8.
- Sione Vaki plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Evan Engram'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%.