Two players, one answer.
Gunnar Helm vs Troy Franklin
Any league · this week start/sit · Standard
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
Gunnar Helm by 38% (Redraft standard)Dynasty
Troy Franklin by 22% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · Standard · 54% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Gunnar Helm is projected 0.6 points ahead of Troy Franklin. 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 · TEN
Gunnar Helm
— final · points pending · 3.4 projected
@ CIN · Sun 1:00 PM ET
1.7 a game this season · last 3: 2.5, 0, 2.4
WR · DEN
Troy Franklin
2.8 projected
vs KC · Sun 4:25 PM ET
1.2 a game this season · last 3: 1.6, 0.2, 0
- Their games have already kicked off, so most platforms have locked them in or out for this week.
What the call rests on
- Gunnar Helm: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sun, Nov 1, 4:30 PM ET
- Troy Franklin: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sun, Nov 1, 4:30 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Sun, Nov 1, 4:35 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sun, Nov 1, 4:35 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 | Helm | Franklin |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 6.5 | 4.5 |
| Half PPR | 4.9 | 3.7 |
| Standard | 3.4 | 2.8 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.6 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.
- Gunnar Helm plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Troy Franklin's late news is known.
Open in Who should I start (your league, more players)
This week’s projections are Sleeper’s, scored with Standard 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%.