Start Kendrick Bourne. Bourne is projected for 7.6 PPR points vs 7.3 for Adonai Mitchell, and faces the 7th-toughest defense against WRs this week.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Kendrick Bourne WR · ARI | Adonai Mitchell WR · NYJ | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 7.6 | 7.3 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 7.0 | 6.6 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 7.9 | 7.7 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs DEN | vs MIA |
| Opponent vs. position | 7th-toughest (29.3 pts/g allowed) | 3rd-toughest (23.2 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 14% target share (last 3) | 22% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | SIT · Bench | SIT · Bench |
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Start Kendrick Bourne. Bourne projects for 7.6 PPR points vs DEN, against 7.3 for Adonai Mitchell vs MIA: a 0.3-point edge.
The projection is the average of every source that carries each player this week, and a player listed Out or Doubtful is never the start.
Kendrick Bourne is projected to score more: 7.6 PPR points to 7.3 for Adonai Mitchell.
The sources range from 7.0 to 7.9 for Bourne and from 6.6 to 7.7 for Mitchell. The ranges overlap, so Mitchell outscoring Bourne is a realistic result.
Kendrick Bourne is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Bourne at 7.0 PPR points, against 6.6 for Adonai Mitchell.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Kendrick Bourne has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Bourne at 7.9 PPR points, against 7.7 for Adonai Mitchell.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Kendrick Bourne plays DEN and Adonai Mitchell plays MIA in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Bourne faces the 7th-toughest defense against WRs and Mitchell faces the 3rd-toughest defense against WRs, so Kendrick Bourne has the softer matchup.
Each projection already accounts for the opponent, so a soft matchup is a tiebreaker, not a reason to bench the higher projection.
Over his recent games Kendrick Bourne has drawn 14% of his team's targets, and Adonai Mitchell 22% of his team's targets.
Adonai Mitchell has the bigger role, and volume is the steadiest thing a projection rests on.
These numbers are in PPR. Full PPR adds a point per catch, so it helps whichever player sees more targets, which here is Adonai Mitchell.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Kendrick Bourne nor Adonai Mitchell has an injury designation for Week 7.
Designations change through the week, so check again before kickoff; this page updates with each refresh.
Each figure is the average of the projection sources that carry the player this week: StatChasers, Sleeper, ESPN, numberFire, FFToday and the betting markets (sportsbook player props). Kendrick Bourne is projected by 4 of them and Adonai Mitchell by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.