Two players, one answer.
Kimani Vidal vs Samaje Perine
Any format · Week 8 start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 7 of 2026
This week
Toss-up · 7.1 to 6.9 projected (Week 8, PPR)
Rest of season
Kimani Vidal by 53% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Kimani Vidal by 85% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 51% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Samaje Perine is projected 0.2 points ahead of Kimani Vidal. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 51% 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.
RB · CIN
Samaje Perine
7.1 projected
vs TEN · Sun 1:00 PM ET
6.3 a game this season · last 3: 0.7, 15.8, 7.6
RB · LAC
Kimani Vidal
6.9 projected
@ LAR · Sun 4:05 PM ET
6.8 a game this season · last 3: 11.6, 12.6, 7
What the call rests on
- Samaje Perine: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 2:40 PM ET
- Kimani Vidal: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Oct 27, 2:40 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Tue, Oct 27, 2:56 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 | Perine | Vidal |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 7.1 | 6.9 |
| Half PPR | 6.2 | 6.1 |
| Standard | 5.4 | 5.4 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.2 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.
- In standard scoring the call goes the other way: Kimani Vidal 5.4, Samaje Perine 5.4.
- Samaje Perine plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Kimani Vidal'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%.