Two players, one answer.
Shane Buechele vs Zavion Thomas
Any league · this week start/sit · Half PPR
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
Zavion Thomas by 52% (Redraft half PPR)Dynasty
Shane Buechele by 10% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · Half PPR · 60% held up in 2025
Lean Zavion Thomas
On Sleeper's projections, Zavion Thomas is projected 2.3 points ahead of Shane Buechele. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 60% of the time. A lean, not a lock.
WR · CHI
Zavion Thomas
2.3 projected
@ SEA · Mon 8:15 PM ET
1.2 a game this season · last 3: 2.7, 4, 0
QB · BUF
Shane Buechele
— final · points pending · 0.0 projected
vs BAL · Sun 1:00 PM ET
No games this season
- Shane Buechele's game has already kicked off, so most platforms have locked him in or out for this week.
What the call rests on
- Zavion Thomas: Sleeper's projection, last changed Sun, Nov 1, 6:30 PM ET
- Shane Buechele: Sleeper's projection
- Sleeper's projections read Sun, Nov 1, 6:36 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Sun, Nov 1, 6:36 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 | Thomas | Buechele |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 2.8 | 0 |
| Half PPR | 2.3 | 0 |
| Standard | 1.8 | 0 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 2.3 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.
- Shane Buechele plays first (Sun 1:00 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Zavion Thomas's late news is known.
Open in Who should I start (your league, more players)
This week’s projections are Sleeper’s, scored with Half 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%.