Two players, one answer.
Kyle Monangai vs Tyjae Spears
This week
Toss-up · 7.5 to 6.1 projected (Week 8, PPR)
Rest of season
Kyle Monangai by 69% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Kyle Monangai by 59% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 56% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Tyjae Spears is projected 1.4 points ahead of Kyle Monangai. 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.
RB · TEN
Tyjae Spears
7.5 projected
@ CIN · Sun 1:00 PM ETQuestionable
4.5 a game this season · last 3: 1.6, 9.8, 1.8
RB · CHI
Kyle Monangai
6.1 projected
@ SEA · Mon 8:15 PM ETQuestionable
14.8 a game this season · last 3: 7.8, 3.1, 28
- Tyjae Spears is questionable. The projection assumes he plays; if he's ruled out, the next player up is the call.
- Kyle Monangai is questionable. The projection assumes he plays; if he's ruled out, the next player up is the call.
What the call rests on
- Tyjae Spears: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 12:30 AM ET
- Kyle Monangai: Sleeper's projection, last changed Thu, Oct 29, 12:30 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Thu, Oct 29, 12:39 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Thu, Oct 29, 12:39 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 | Spears | Monangai |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 7.5 | 6.1 |
| Half PPR | 6.4 | 5.7 |
| Standard | 5.2 | 5.3 |
What could change it before kickoff
- Tyjae Spears's status (questionable): if he's ruled out, Kyle Monangai is the start.
- Kyle Monangai's status (questionable): if he's ruled out, Tyjae Spears is the start.
- A projection update of 1.4 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: Kyle Monangai 5.3, Tyjae Spears 5.2.
- Tyjae Spears plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Kyle Monangai'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%.