Two players, one answer.

Hayden Rucci vs Lil'Jordan Humphrey

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
Hayden Rucci by 10% (Redraft PPR)
Dynasty
Lil'Jordan Humphrey by 26% (Dynasty Superflex)

Week 8 · PPR · 57% held up in 2025

A toss-up

On Sleeper's projections, Lil'Jordan Humphrey is projected 1.4 points ahead of Hayden Rucci. 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.

WR · DEN

Lil'Jordan Humphrey

2.0 projected

vs KC · Sun 4:25 PM ET

1.1 a game this season · last 3: 0, 1.8, 1.5

TE · LAC

Hayden Rucci

0.6 projected

@ LAR · Sun 4:05 PM ET

3.9 a game this season · last 2: 7.7, 0

What the call rests on

Lil'Jordan Humphrey: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sun, Nov 1, 3:20 AM ET
Hayden Rucci: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sun, Nov 1, 3:20 AM ET
Sleeper's projections read Sun, Nov 1, 3:30 AM ET.
Injury statuses read Sun, Nov 1, 3:30 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	Humphrey	Rucci
PPR	2	0.6
Half PPR	1.6	0.5
Standard	1.2	0.3

What could change it before kickoff

A projection update of 1.4 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%.