Two players, one answer.
Joshua Palmer vs Sam Roush
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
Sam Roush by 30% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Sam Roush by 10% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 53% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Joshua Palmer is projected 0.7 points ahead of Sam Roush. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 53% 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 · BUF
Joshua Palmer
3.0 projected
vs BAL · Sun 1:00 PM ET
6.9 a game this season · last 3: 11.3, 1.3, 4.7
TE · CHI
Sam Roush
2.3 projected
@ SEA · Mon 8:15 PM ET
1.6 a game this season · last 3: 2.6, 1.8, 0
What the call rests on
- Joshua Palmer: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 6:50 AM ET
- Sam Roush: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 6:50 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 7:07 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 7:07 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 | Palmer | Roush |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 3 | 2.3 |
| Half PPR | 2.4 | 1.8 |
| Standard | 1.9 | 1.3 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.7 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.
- Joshua Palmer plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Sam Roush'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%.