Start Breece Hall. Hall is projected for 13.9 PPR points vs 13.1 for Tony Pollard, and faces the 5th-softest defense against RBs this week.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| Breece Hall RB · NYJ | Tony Pollard RB · TEN | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 13.9 | 13.1 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 11.3 | 12.1 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 16.1 | 14.1 |
| StatChasers projection | 13.9 (RB20) | 13.0 (RB21) |
| Opponent | vs LV | vs CIN |
| Opponent vs. position | 5th-softest (25.4 pts/g allowed) | 4th-toughest (17.9 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 60% carry share (last 3) | 82% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | RB | RB |
| Our call | START · RB2 | START · RB2 |
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Start Breece Hall. Hall projects for 13.9 PPR points vs LV, against 13.1 for Tony Pollard vs CIN: a 0.8-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.
Breece Hall is projected to score more: 13.9 PPR points to 13.1 for Tony Pollard.
The sources range from 11.3 to 16.1 for Hall and from 12.1 to 14.1 for Pollard. The ranges overlap, so Pollard outscoring Hall is a realistic result.
Tony Pollard is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Pollard at 12.1 PPR points, against 11.3 for Breece Hall.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Breece Hall has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Hall at 16.1 PPR points, against 14.1 for Tony Pollard.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Breece Hall plays LV and Tony Pollard plays CIN in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Hall faces the 5th-softest defense against RBs and Pollard faces the 4th-toughest defense against RBs, so Breece Hall 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 Breece Hall has drawn 60% of his team's carries, and Tony Pollard 82% of his team's carries.
Tony Pollard 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 Breece Hall nor Tony Pollard has an injury designation for Week 8.
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). Breece Hall is projected by 5 of them and Tony Pollard by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.