Start Bhayshul Tuten. Tuten is projected for 14.4 PPR points vs 12.8 for Zay Flowers, and faces the 8th-toughest defense against RBs this week.
Updated Nov 7, 4:39 PM ET
| Bhayshul Tuten RB · JAX | Zay Flowers WR · BAL | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 9, avg of sources) | 14.4 | 12.8 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 13.5 | 11.3 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 15.3 | 13.9 |
| StatChasers projection | — | 11.3 (WR30) |
| Opponent | vs BAL | vs JAX |
| Opponent vs. position | 8th-toughest (19.5 pts/g allowed) | 6th-softest (36.9 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 57% carry share (last 3) | 30% target share (last 3) |
| Position | RB | WR |
| Our call | START · RB2 | START · WR3 |
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Start Bhayshul Tuten. Tuten projects for 14.4 PPR points vs BAL, against 12.8 for Zay Flowers vs JAX: a 1.6-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.
Bhayshul Tuten is projected to score more: 14.4 PPR points to 12.8 for Zay Flowers.
The sources range from 13.5 to 15.3 for Tuten and from 11.3 to 13.9 for Flowers. The ranges overlap, so Flowers outscoring Tuten is a realistic result.
Bhayshul Tuten is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Tuten at 13.5 PPR points, against 11.3 for Zay Flowers.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Bhayshul Tuten has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Tuten at 15.3 PPR points, against 13.9 for Zay Flowers.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Bhayshul Tuten plays BAL and Zay Flowers plays JAX in Week 9.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Tuten faces the 8th-toughest defense against RBs and Flowers faces the 6th-softest defense against WRs, so Zay Flowers 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 Bhayshul Tuten has drawn 57% of his team's carries, and Zay Flowers 30% of his team's targets.
These numbers are in PPR. Full PPR adds a point per catch, so it helps whichever player sees more targets, which here is Zay Flowers.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Bhayshul Tuten nor Zay Flowers 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). Bhayshul Tuten is projected by 5 of them and Zay Flowers by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.