Two players, one answer.

Nick Muse vs Riley Nowakowski

Any league · this week start/sit · PPR

Stats through week 8 of 2026 (in progress)

Nick Muse · Riley Nowakowski

Week 8 · PPR · 50% held up in 2025

A toss-up

On Sleeper's projections, Riley Nowakowski is projected 0.1 points ahead of Nick Muse. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 50% 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 · PIT

Riley Nowakowski

0.1 projected

vs CLE · Sun 1:00 PM ET

0 a game this season · last 1: 0

TE · ATL

Nick Muse

0.0 projected

@ TB · Sun 1:00 PM ET

2.7 a game this season · last 3: 0, 0, 8.2

What the call rests on

  • Riley Nowakowski: Sleeper's projection, last changed Fri, Oct 30, 10:30 PM ET
  • Nick Muse: Sleeper's projection
  • Sleeper's projections read Fri, Oct 30, 10:33 PM ET.
  • Injury statuses read Fri, Oct 30, 10:33 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.

What could change it before kickoff

  • A projection update of 0.1 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.

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%.