Too close to call: AJ Barner (8.1) and Chig Okonkwo (8.1) project within 0.0 PPR points of each other in Week 8, and AJ Barner faces the 16th-softest defense against TEs.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| AJ Barner TE · SEA | Chig Okonkwo TE · WAS | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 8.1 | 8.1 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 7.6 | 7.4 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 8.6 | 8.8 |
| StatChasers projection | 7.6 (TE19) | 8.8 (TE17) |
| Opponent | vs CHI | vs PHI |
| Opponent vs. position | 16th-softest (13.1 pts/g allowed) | 7th-toughest (10.5 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 14% target share (last 3) | 18% target share (last 3) |
| Position | TE | TE |
| Our call | SIT · Bench | SIT · Bench |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. AJ Barner projects for 8.1 PPR points and Chig Okonkwo for 8.1, within 0.0 of each other.
Break the tie with the floor if you are favored this week, and with the ceiling if you need a big game to win.
They are projected almost level: 8.1 PPR points for AJ Barner and 8.1 for Chig Okonkwo.
The sources range from 7.6 to 8.6 for Barner and from 7.4 to 8.8 for Okonkwo. Either result is well inside both ranges.
AJ Barner is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Barner at 7.6 PPR points, against 7.4 for Chig Okonkwo.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Chig Okonkwo has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Okonkwo at 8.8 PPR points, against 8.6 for AJ Barner.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
AJ Barner plays CHI and Chig Okonkwo plays PHI in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Barner faces the 16th-softest defense against TEs and Okonkwo faces the 7th-toughest defense against TEs, so AJ Barner 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 AJ Barner has drawn 14% of his team's targets, and Chig Okonkwo 18% of his team's targets.
Chig Okonkwo 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 Chig Okonkwo.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither AJ Barner nor Chig Okonkwo has an injury designation for Week 8.
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). AJ Barner is projected by 5 of them and Chig Okonkwo by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.