Two players, one answer.
Sterling Shepard vs Zavion Thomas
Any league · this week start/sit · 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 37% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Zavion Thomas by 92% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 62% held up in 2025
Lean Zavion Thomas
On Sleeper's projections, Zavion Thomas is projected 2.8 points ahead of Sterling Shepard. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 62% of the time. A lean, not a lock.
WR · CHI
Zavion Thomas
2.8 projected
@ SEA · Mon 8:15 PM ET
1.6 a game this season · last 3: 3.2, 5.5, 0
WR · NYJ
Sterling Shepard
— final · points pending · 0.0 projected
vs LV · Sun 1:00 PM ET
1.7 a game this season · last 2: 3.3, 0
- Sterling Shepard'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, 9:30 PM ET
- Sterling Shepard: Sleeper's projection
- 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 | Thomas | Shepard |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 2.8 | 0 |
| Half PPR | 2.3 | 0 |
| Standard | 1.8 | 0 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 2.8 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.
- Sterling Shepard 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 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%.