Two players, one answer.
Kevin Coleman Jr. vs Nate Boerkircher
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
Nate Boerkircher by 29% (Redraft half PPR)Dynasty
Kevin Coleman Jr. by 32% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 9 · Half PPR · 56% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Kevin Coleman Jr. is projected 1.2 points ahead of Nate Boerkircher. 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.
WR · MIA
Kevin Coleman Jr.
2.3 projected
vs DET · Sun 1:00 PM ET
4 a game this season · last 3: 10.5, 0, 12.1
TE · JAX
Nate Boerkircher
1.1 projected
@ BAL · Thu 8:15 PM ET
4 a game this season · last 3: 3, 7.8, 9.6
What the call rests on
- Kevin Coleman Jr.: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Nov 3, 6:40 PM ET
- Nate Boerkircher: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Nov 3, 6:40 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Tue, Nov 3, 6:41 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Tue, Nov 3, 6:41 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 | Jr. | Boerkircher |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 2.7 | 1.4 |
| Half PPR | 2.3 | 1.1 |
| Standard | 1.8 | 0.8 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 1.2 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.
- Nate Boerkircher plays first (Thu 8:15 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Kevin Coleman Jr.'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%.