Two players, one answer.

Jalen Coker vs Jaylen Waddle

Any league · Week 9 start/sit · PPR

Stats through week 8 of 2026

Jalen Coker · Jaylen Waddle

Week 9 · PPR · 61% held up in 2025

Lean Jalen Coker

On Sleeper's projections, Jalen Coker is projected 2.4 points ahead of Jaylen Waddle. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 61% of the time. A lean, not a lock.

WR · CAR

Jalen Coker

13.8 projected

vs DEN · Sun 1:00 PM ET

13.2 a game this season · last 3: 15.7, 1.9, 9.6

WR · DEN

Jaylen Waddle

11.4 projected

@ CAR · Sun 1:00 PM ET

9.9 a game this season · last 3: 6.4, 8.8, 14.9

What the call rests on

  • Jalen Coker: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Nov 3, 7:40 PM ET
  • Jaylen Waddle: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Nov 3, 7:40 PM ET
  • Sleeper's projections read Tue, Nov 3, 7:41 PM ET.
  • Injury statuses read Tue, Nov 3, 7:41 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, scoredCokerWaddle
PPR13.811.4
Half PPR11.49.3
Standard97.1

What could change it before kickoff

  • A projection update of 2.4 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%.