Two players, one answer.
Jalen Royals vs Jared Wayne
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Jared Wayne by 35% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
About even (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 54% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Jalen Royals is projected 0.9 points ahead of Jared Wayne. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 54% 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 · KC
Jalen Royals
1.9 projected
@ DEN · Sun 4:25 PM ET
2.5 a game this season · last 3: 0, 4.4, 0
WR · MIA
Jared Wayne
1.0 projected
vs NE · Sun 4:25 PM ETQuestionable
3.5 a game this season · last 3: 2.2, 5.3, 3
- Jared Wayne is questionable. The projection assumes he plays; if he's ruled out, the next player up is the call.
What the call rests on
- Jalen Royals: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 10:10 PM ET
- Jared Wayne: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 10:10 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Thu, Oct 29, 10:27 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Thu, Oct 29, 10:27 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, scored | Royals | Wayne |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 1.9 | 1 |
| Half PPR | 1.5 | 0.8 |
| Standard | 1.1 | 0.6 |
What could change it before kickoff
- Jared Wayne's status (questionable): if he's ruled out, Jalen Royals is the start.
- A projection update of 0.9 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%.