Two players, one answer.
Jared Wayne vs Michael Carter
Any league · 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
Michael Carter by 37% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
About even (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 54% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Jared Wayne is projected 0.9 points ahead of Michael Carter. 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 · MIA
Jared Wayne
1.0 projected
vs NE · Sun 4:25 PM ET
3.5 a game this season · last 3: 2.2, 5.3, 3
RB · TEN
Michael Carter
0.1 projected
@ CIN · Sun 1:00 PM ET
2.4 a game this season · last 1: 2.4
What the call rests on
- Jared Wayne: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 11:30 AM ET
- Michael Carter: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 11:30 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 11:31 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 11:31 AM 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 | Wayne | Carter |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 1 | 0.1 |
| Half PPR | 0.8 | 0.1 |
| Standard | 0.6 | 0.1 |
What could change it before kickoff
- 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.
- Michael Carter plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Jared Wayne'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%.