Start Bucky Irving. Irving is projected for 15.0 PPR points vs 14.7 for Jalen Coker, and faces the 5th-softest defense against RBs this week.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Bucky Irving RB · TB | Jalen Coker WR · CAR | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 15.0 | 14.7 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 14.1 | 13.2 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 16.5 | 15.6 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs CAR | vs TB |
| Opponent vs. position | 5th-softest (25.7 pts/g allowed) | 14th-softest (32.9 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 59% carry share (last 3) | 24% target share (last 3) |
| Position | RB | WR |
| Our call | START · RB2 | START · WR2 |
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Start Bucky Irving. Irving projects for 15.0 PPR points vs CAR, against 14.7 for Jalen Coker vs TB: a 0.3-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.
Bucky Irving is projected to score more: 15.0 PPR points to 14.7 for Jalen Coker.
The sources range from 14.1 to 16.5 for Irving and from 13.2 to 15.6 for Coker. The ranges overlap, so Coker outscoring Irving is a realistic result.
Bucky Irving is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Irving at 14.1 PPR points, against 13.2 for Jalen Coker.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Bucky Irving has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Irving at 16.5 PPR points, against 15.6 for Jalen Coker.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Bucky Irving plays CAR and Jalen Coker plays TB in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Irving faces the 5th-softest defense against RBs and Coker faces the 14th-softest defense against WRs, so Bucky Irving 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 Bucky Irving has drawn 59% of his team's carries, and Jalen Coker 24% 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 Jalen Coker.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Bucky Irving nor Jalen Coker has an injury designation for Week 7.
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). Bucky Irving is projected by 5 of them and Jalen Coker by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.