Two players, one answer.
Hayden Rucci vs Quinn Ewers
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 49% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Quinn Ewers by 56% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 53% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Hayden Rucci is projected 0.6 points ahead of Quinn Ewers. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 53% 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 · LAC
Hayden Rucci
0.6 projected
@ LAR · Sun 4:05 PM ET
3.9 a game this season · last 2: 7.7, 0
QB · JAX
Quinn Ewers
0.0 projected
vs IND · Sun 1:00 PM ET
No games this season
What the call rests on
- Hayden Rucci: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sun, Nov 1, 1:20 AM ET
- Quinn Ewers: Sleeper's projection
- Sleeper's projections read Sun, Nov 1, 1:30 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sun, Nov 1, 1:30 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 | Rucci | Ewers |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 0.6 | 0 |
| Half PPR | 0.5 | 0 |
| Standard | 0.3 | 0 |
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.
- Quinn Ewers plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Hayden Rucci'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%.