Two players, one answer.
Josh Whyle vs Sterling Shepard
Any format · 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
Sterling Shepard by 19% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Josh Whyle by 73% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 52% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Josh Whyle is projected 0.4 points ahead of Sterling Shepard. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 52% 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 · GB
Josh Whyle
0.4 projected
vs CAR · Thu 8:15 PM ET
No games this season
WR · NYJ
Sterling Shepard
0.0 projected
vs LV · Sun 1:00 PM ET
1.7 a game this season · last 2: 3.3, 0
What the call rests on
- Josh Whyle: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 2:00 PM ET
- Sterling Shepard: Sleeper's projection
- Sleeper's projections read Tue, Oct 27, 2:07 PM ET.
- Injury statuses: Sleeper's player list, read Tue, Oct 27, 9:01 AM ET (once a day). Game-day inactives, about 90 minutes before kickoff, come after it.
| Same projections, scored | Whyle | Shepard |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 0.4 | 0 |
| Half PPR | 0.3 | 0 |
| Standard | 0.2 | 0 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.4 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.
- Josh Whyle plays first (Thu 8:15 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Sterling Shepard'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%.