Too close to call: Harold Fannin Jr. (11.8) and Alvin Kamara (11.6) project within 0.2 PPR points of each other in Week 9, and Harold Fannin Jr. faces the 6th-softest defense against TEs.
Updated Nov 7, 4:39 PM ET
| Harold Fannin Jr. TE · CLE | Alvin Kamara RB · NO | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 9, avg of sources) | 11.8 | 11.6 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 11.4 | 9.5 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 12.5 | 12.6 |
| StatChasers projection | 11.9 (TE9) | 9.5 (RB30) |
| Opponent | vs NO | vs CLE |
| Opponent vs. position | 6th-softest (17.0 pts/g allowed) | 15th-toughest (21.1 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 24% target share (last 3) | 22% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | TE | RB |
| Our call | START · TE1 | FLEX · Flex |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. Harold Fannin Jr. projects for 11.8 PPR points and Alvin Kamara for 11.6, within 0.2 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: 11.8 PPR points for Harold Fannin Jr. and 11.6 for Alvin Kamara.
The sources range from 11.4 to 12.5 for Fannin Jr. and from 9.5 to 12.6 for Kamara. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Harold Fannin Jr. is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Fannin Jr. at 11.4 PPR points, against 9.5 for Alvin Kamara.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Alvin Kamara has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Kamara at 12.6 PPR points, against 12.5 for Harold Fannin Jr..
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Harold Fannin Jr. plays NO and Alvin Kamara plays CLE in Week 9.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Fannin Jr. faces the 6th-softest defense against TEs and Kamara faces the 15th-toughest defense against RBs, so Harold Fannin Jr. 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 Harold Fannin Jr. has drawn 24% of his team's targets, and Alvin Kamara 22% of his team's carries.
These numbers are in PPR. Full PPR adds a point per catch, so it helps whichever player sees more targets, which here is Harold Fannin Jr..
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Harold Fannin Jr. nor Alvin Kamara has an injury designation for Week 9.
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). Harold Fannin Jr. is projected by 5 of them and Alvin Kamara by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.