Two players, one answer.
Joshua Palmer vs Trevor Etienne
Any league · this week start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 8 of 2026 (in progress)
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Joshua Palmer by 10% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Trevor Etienne by 24% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 52% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Joshua Palmer is projected 0.4 points ahead of Trevor Etienne. 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.
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
RB · CAR
Trevor Etienne
0.1 final · 2.6 projected
@ GB · Thu 8:15 PM ET
1.5 a game this season · last 3: -0.1, 4.5, 0.1
- Trevor Etienne's game has already kicked off, so most platforms have locked him in or out for this week.
What the call rests on
- Joshua Palmer: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 8:10 PM ET
- Trevor Etienne: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sat, Oct 31, 8:10 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Sat, Oct 31, 8:29 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sat, Oct 31, 8:29 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 | Palmer | Etienne |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 3 | 2.6 |
| Half PPR | 2.4 | 2.3 |
| Standard | 1.8 | 2 |
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.
- In standard scoring the call goes the other way: Trevor Etienne 2, Joshua Palmer 1.8.
- Trevor Etienne plays first (Thu 8:15 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Joshua Palmer'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%.