Two players, one answer.

Jaylen Waddle vs Tre Tucker

Any league · Week 9 start/sit · PPR

Stats through week 8 of 2026

Jaylen Waddle · Tre Tucker

Week 9 · PPR · 51% held up in 2025

A toss-up

On Sleeper's projections, Jaylen Waddle is projected 0.3 points ahead of Tre Tucker. 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.

WR · DEN

Jaylen Waddle

11.5 projected

@ CAR · Sun 1:00 PM ET

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

WR · LV

Tre Tucker

11.2 projected

@ SF · Sun 4:05 PM ET

12.5 a game this season · last 3: 26.7, 21.3, 0

What the call rests on

  • Jaylen Waddle: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Nov 4, 6:50 PM ET
  • Tre Tucker: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Nov 4, 6:50 PM ET
  • Sleeper's projections read Wed, Nov 4, 7:01 PM ET.
  • Injury statuses read Wed, Nov 4, 7:01 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, scoredWaddleTucker
PPR11.511.2
Half PPR9.39.3
Standard7.27.5

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.
  • In standard scoring the call goes the other way: Tre Tucker 7.5, Jaylen Waddle 7.2.
  • Jaylen Waddle plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Tre Tucker'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%.