Two players, one answer.

Jake Ferguson vs Pat Freiermuth

Any league · Week 8 start/sit · PPR

Stats through week 8 of 2026 (in progress)

Jake Ferguson · Pat Freiermuth

Week 8 · PPR · 51% held up in 2025

A toss-up

On Sleeper's projections, Jake Ferguson is projected 0.3 points ahead of Pat Freiermuth. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 51% 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 · DAL

Jake Ferguson

9.6 projected

vs ARI · Sun 1:00 PM ET

6.4 a game this season · last 3: 4.9, 3.3, 0

TE · PIT

Pat Freiermuth

9.3 projected

vs CLE · Sun 1:00 PM ET

9.6 a game this season · last 3: 21.5, 3.1, 4

What the call rests on

  • Jake Ferguson: Sleeper's projection, last changed Fri, Oct 30, 10:30 PM ET
  • Pat Freiermuth: Sleeper's projection, last changed Fri, Oct 30, 10:30 PM ET
  • Sleeper's projections read Fri, Oct 30, 10:33 PM ET.
  • Injury statuses read Fri, Oct 30, 10:33 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, scoredFergusonFreiermuth
PPR9.69.3
Half PPR7.97.6
Standard6.25.8

What could change it before kickoff

  • A projection update of 0.3 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.

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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%.