Start Brock Bowers. Bowers is projected for 18.7 PPR points vs 15.5 for Bucky Irving, and faces the 10th-toughest defense against TEs this week.
Updated Nov 7, 4:39 PM ET
| Brock Bowers TE · LV | Bucky Irving RB · TB | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 9, avg of sources) | 18.7 | 15.5 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 17.9 | 13.6 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 20.2 | 17.6 |
| StatChasers projection | 18.7 (TE1) | 14.4 (RB16) |
| Opponent | vs SF | vs CHI |
| Opponent vs. position | 10th-toughest (12.0 pts/g allowed) | 3rd-toughest (17.8 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 25% target share (last 3) | 54% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | TE | RB |
| Our call | START · Strong TE1 | START · RB2 |
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Start Brock Bowers. Bowers projects for 18.7 PPR points vs SF, against 15.5 for Bucky Irving vs CHI: a 3.2-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.
Brock Bowers is projected to score more: 18.7 PPR points to 15.5 for Bucky Irving.
The sources range from 17.9 to 20.2 for Bowers and from 13.6 to 17.6 for Irving. Even Irving's highest projection is below Bowers's lowest.
Brock Bowers is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Bowers at 17.9 PPR points, against 13.6 for Bucky Irving.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Brock Bowers has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Bowers at 20.2 PPR points, against 17.6 for Bucky Irving.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Brock Bowers plays SF and Bucky Irving plays CHI in Week 9.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Bowers faces the 10th-toughest defense against TEs and Irving faces the 3rd-toughest defense against RBs, so Brock Bowers 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 Brock Bowers has drawn 25% of his team's targets, and Bucky Irving 54% 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 Brock Bowers.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Brock Bowers nor Bucky Irving 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). Brock Bowers is projected by 5 of them and Bucky Irving by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.