Two players, one answer.
Rico Dowdle vs Samaje Perine
Any league · Week 8 start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 8 of 2026 (in progress)
This week
Toss-up · 9 to 8.8 projected (Week 8, PPR)
Rest of season
Rico Dowdle by 80% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Rico Dowdle by 87% (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 Rico Dowdle. 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
9.0 projected
vs TEN · Sun 1:00 PM ET
6.3 a game this season · last 3: 0.7, 15.8, 7.6
RB · PIT
Rico Dowdle
8.8 projected
vs CLE · Sun 1:00 PM ET
8.3 a game this season · last 3: 6.4, 7.9, 14.6
What the call rests on
- Samaje Perine: Sleeper's projection, last changed Fri, Oct 30, 10:30 PM ET
- Rico Dowdle: Sleeper's projection, last changed Fri, Oct 30, 10:30 PM ET
- 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.
| Same projections, scored | Perine | Dowdle |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 9 | 8.8 |
| Half PPR | 8.2 | 8 |
| Standard | 7.3 | 7.1 |
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.
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%.