Two players, one answer.
Jeremy Ruckert vs Ricky White III
Any league · this week start/sit · Half PPR
Stats through week 8 of 2026
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Ricky White III by 22% (Redraft half PPR)Dynasty
Ricky White III by 69% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 9 · Half PPR · 56% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Jeremy Ruckert is projected 1.1 points ahead of Ricky White III. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 56% 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.
TE · NYJ
Jeremy Ruckert
1.1 projected
@ KC · Sun 1:00 PM ET
3.7 a game this season · last 3: 1.5, 12.4, 0
WR · SEA
Ricky White III
0.0 projected
vs ARI · Sun 4:25 PM ET
No games this season
What the call rests on
- Jeremy Ruckert: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Nov 3, 8:30 PM ET
- Ricky White III: Sleeper's projection
- Sleeper's projections read Tue, Nov 3, 8:41 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Tue, Nov 3, 8:41 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, scored | Ruckert | III |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 1.4 | 0 |
| Half PPR | 1.1 | 0 |
| Standard | 0.8 | 0 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 1.1 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.
- Jeremy Ruckert plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Ricky White III's late news is known.
Open in Who should I start (your league, more players)
This week’s projections are Sleeper’s, scored with Half 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%.