Too close to call: Stefon Diggs (13.7) and Ashton Jeanty (13.6) project within 0.1 PPR points of each other in Week 9, and Stefon Diggs faces the 5th-toughest defense against WRs.
Updated Nov 7, 4:39 PM ET
| Stefon Diggs WR · WAS | Ashton Jeanty RB · LV | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 9, avg of sources) | 13.7 | 13.6 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 11.5 | 12.2 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 16.0 | 14.9 |
| StatChasers projection | 11.5 (WR25) | 14.6 (RB15) |
| Opponent | vs LAR | vs SF |
| Opponent vs. position | 5th-toughest (26.8 pts/g allowed) | 12th-softest (23.1 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 23% target share (last 3) | 29% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | RB |
| Our call | START · WR3 | START · RB2 |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. Stefon Diggs projects for 13.7 PPR points and Ashton Jeanty for 13.6, within 0.1 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: 13.7 PPR points for Stefon Diggs and 13.6 for Ashton Jeanty.
The sources range from 11.5 to 16.0 for Diggs and from 12.2 to 14.9 for Jeanty. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Ashton Jeanty is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Jeanty at 12.2 PPR points, against 11.5 for Stefon Diggs.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Stefon Diggs has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Diggs at 16.0 PPR points, against 14.9 for Ashton Jeanty.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Stefon Diggs plays LAR and Ashton Jeanty plays SF in Week 9.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Diggs faces the 5th-toughest defense against WRs and Jeanty faces the 12th-softest defense against RBs, so Ashton Jeanty 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 Stefon Diggs has drawn 23% of his team's targets, and Ashton Jeanty 29% 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 Stefon Diggs.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Stefon Diggs nor Ashton Jeanty 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). Stefon Diggs is projected by 6 of them and Ashton Jeanty by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.