Too close to call: Samaje Perine (6.1) and Austin Ekeler (6.0) project within 0.1 PPR points of each other in Week 9, and Samaje Perine faces the 5th-softest defense against RBs.
Updated Nov 7, 4:39 PM ET
| Samaje Perine RB · CIN | Austin Ekeler RB · WAS | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 9, avg of sources) | 6.1 | 6.0 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 4.2 | 3.6 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 6.9 | 7.6 |
| StatChasers projection | 6.9 (RB39) | 5.5 (RB45) |
| Opponent | vs ATL | vs LAR |
| Opponent vs. position | 5th-softest (25.9 pts/g allowed) | 12th-toughest (19.9 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 31% carry share (last 3) | 16% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | RB | RB |
| Our call | SIT · Bench | SIT · Bench |
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It is a coin flip. Samaje Perine projects for 6.1 PPR points and Austin Ekeler for 6.0, 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: 6.1 PPR points for Samaje Perine and 6.0 for Austin Ekeler.
The sources range from 4.2 to 6.9 for Perine and from 3.6 to 7.6 for Ekeler. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Samaje Perine is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Perine at 4.2 PPR points, against 3.6 for Austin Ekeler.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Austin Ekeler has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Ekeler at 7.6 PPR points, against 6.9 for Samaje Perine.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Samaje Perine plays ATL and Austin Ekeler plays LAR in Week 9.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Perine faces the 5th-softest defense against RBs and Ekeler faces the 12th-toughest defense against RBs, so Samaje Perine 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 Samaje Perine has drawn 31% of his team's carries, and Austin Ekeler 16% of his team's carries.
Samaje Perine 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 Samaje Perine 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). Samaje Perine 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.