Two players, one answer.
Jalen Royals vs Shane Buechele
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
About even (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Shane Buechele by 31% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 58% held up in 2025
Lean Jalen Royals
On Sleeper's projections, Jalen Royals is projected 1.9 points ahead of Shane Buechele. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 58% of the time. A lean, not a lock.
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
QB · BUF
Shane Buechele
0.0 projected
vs BAL · Sun 1:00 PM ET
No games this season
What the call rests on
- Jalen Royals: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 3:20 PM ET
- Shane Buechele: Sleeper's projection
- Sleeper's projections read Thu, Oct 29, 3:28 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Thu, Oct 29, 3:28 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 | Buechele |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 1.9 | 0 |
| Half PPR | 1.5 | 0 |
| Standard | 1.1 | 0 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 1.9 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.
- Shane Buechele plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Jalen Royals'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%.