Two players, one answer.
Max Bredeson vs Sam Roush
Any league · this week start/sit · Standard
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
Sam Roush by 15% (Redraft standard)Dynasty
Max Bredeson by 23% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · Standard · 57% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Sam Roush is projected 1.3 points ahead of Max Bredeson. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 57% 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.
TE · CHI
Sam Roush
1.3 projected
@ SEA · Mon 8:15 PM ET
0.8 a game this season · last 3: 1.6, 0.8, 0
RB · MIN
Max Bredeson
— final · points pending · 0.0 projected
@ DET · Sun 1:00 PM ET
0 a game this season · last 2: 0, 0
- Max Bredeson's game has already kicked off, so most platforms have locked him in or out for this week.
What the call rests on
- Sam Roush: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sun, Nov 1, 9:30 PM ET
- Max Bredeson: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sun, Nov 1, 9:30 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Sun, Nov 1, 9:36 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sun, Nov 1, 9:36 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 | Roush | Bredeson |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 2.3 | 0.1 |
| Half PPR | 1.8 | 0.1 |
| Standard | 1.3 | 0 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 1.3 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.
- Max Bredeson 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 Standard 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%.