Two players, one answer.

Gavin Bartholomew vs Joshua Palmer

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
Gavin Bartholomew by 13% (Redraft PPR)
Dynasty
About even (Dynasty Superflex)

Week 8 · PPR · 56% held up in 2025

A toss-up

On Sleeper's projections, Joshua Palmer is projected 1.2 points ahead of Gavin Bartholomew. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 56% 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.

WR · BUF

Joshua Palmer

3.0 projected

vs BAL · Sun 1:00 PM ET

6.9 a game this season · last 3: 11.3, 1.3, 4.7

TE · MIN

Gavin Bartholomew

1.8 projected

@ DET · Sun 1:00 PM ET

4.1 a game this season · last 3: 1.4, 8.3, 2.7

What the call rests on

Joshua Palmer: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 5:20 PM ET
Gavin Bartholomew: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 5:20 PM ET
Sleeper's projections read Sat, Oct 31, 5:28 PM ET.
Injury statuses read Sat, Oct 31, 5:28 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	Palmer	Bartholomew
PPR	3	1.8
Half PPR	2.4	1.4
Standard	1.8	1

What could change it before kickoff

A projection update of 1.2 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.

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%.