Too close to call: Brock Bowers (16.8) and Jonathan Taylor (16.6) project within 0.2 PPR points of each other in Week 8, and Brock Bowers faces the 6th-toughest defense against TEs.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| Brock Bowers TE · LV | Jonathan Taylor RB · IND | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 16.8 | 16.6 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 15.2 | 15.9 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 18.7 | 17.8 |
| StatChasers projection | 16.9 (TE2) | 16.2 (RB15) |
| Opponent | vs NYJ | vs JAX |
| Opponent vs. position | 6th-toughest (10.4 pts/g allowed) | 2nd-toughest (17.3 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 23% target share (last 3) | 62% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | TE | RB |
| Our call | START · Strong TE1 | START · RB2 |
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It is a coin flip. Brock Bowers projects for 16.8 PPR points and Jonathan Taylor for 16.6, within 0.2 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: 16.8 PPR points for Brock Bowers and 16.6 for Jonathan Taylor.
The sources range from 15.2 to 18.7 for Bowers and from 15.9 to 17.8 for Taylor. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Jonathan Taylor is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Taylor at 15.9 PPR points, against 15.2 for Brock Bowers.
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 18.7 PPR points, against 17.8 for Jonathan Taylor.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Brock Bowers plays NYJ and Jonathan Taylor plays JAX in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Bowers faces the 6th-toughest defense against TEs and Taylor faces the 2nd-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 23% of his team's targets, and Jonathan Taylor 62% 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 Jonathan Taylor 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). Brock Bowers is projected by 5 of them and Jonathan Taylor by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.