Two players, one answer.
Jake Briningstool vs Lew Nichols
Any format · this week start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 7 of 2026
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Jake Briningstool by 52% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Jake Briningstool by 6% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 52% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Jake Briningstool is projected 0.5 points ahead of Lew Nichols. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 52% 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 · KC
Jake Briningstool
0.7 projected
@ DEN · Sun 4:25 PM ET
0.6 a game this season · last 3: 1.9, 0, 0
RB · PIT
Lew Nichols
0.2 projected
vs CLE · Sun 1:00 PM ET
0.1 a game this season · last 3: 0.6, 0, 0
What the call rests on
- Jake Briningstool: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 4:30 PM ET
- Lew Nichols: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 4:30 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Tue, Oct 27, 4:48 PM ET.
- Injury statuses: Sleeper's player list, read Tue, Oct 27, 9:01 AM ET (once a day). Game-day inactives, about 90 minutes before kickoff, come after it.
| Same projections, scored | Briningstool | Nichols |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| Half PPR | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| Standard | 0.4 | 0.2 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.5 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.
- Lew Nichols plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Jake Briningstool'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%.