Start Jadarian Price. Price is projected for 10.0 PPR points vs 6.0 for Austin Ekeler, and faces the 14th-toughest defense against RBs this week.
Updated Nov 7, 4:39 PM ET
| Jadarian Price RB · SEA | Austin Ekeler RB · WAS | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 9, avg of sources) | 10.0 | 6.0 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 8.1 | 3.6 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 11.3 | 7.6 |
| StatChasers projection | 10.6 (RB28) | 5.5 (RB45) |
| Opponent | vs ARI | vs LAR |
| Opponent vs. position | 14th-toughest (20.7 pts/g allowed) | 12th-toughest (19.9 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 36% carry share (last 3) | 16% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | RB | RB |
| Our call | FLEX · Flex | SIT · Bench |
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Start Jadarian Price. Price projects for 10.0 PPR points vs ARI, against 6.0 for Austin Ekeler vs LAR: a 4.0-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.
Jadarian Price is projected to score more: 10.0 PPR points to 6.0 for Austin Ekeler.
The sources range from 8.1 to 11.3 for Price and from 3.6 to 7.6 for Ekeler. Even Ekeler's highest projection is below Price's lowest.
Jadarian Price is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Price at 8.1 PPR points, against 3.6 for Austin Ekeler.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Jadarian Price has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Price at 11.3 PPR points, against 7.6 for Austin Ekeler.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Jadarian Price plays ARI and Austin Ekeler plays LAR in Week 9.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Price faces the 14th-toughest defense against RBs and Ekeler faces the 12th-toughest defense against RBs, so Jadarian Price 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 Jadarian Price has drawn 36% of his team's carries, and Austin Ekeler 16% of his team's carries.
Jadarian Price 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.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Jadarian Price nor Austin Ekeler 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). Jadarian Price is projected by 6 of them and Austin Ekeler by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.