Too close to call: Bucky Irving (15.0) and Tetairoa McMillan (14.8) project within 0.2 PPR points of each other in Week 7, and Bucky Irving faces the 5th-softest defense against RBs.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Bucky Irving RB · TB | Tetairoa McMillan WR · CAR | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 15.0 | 14.8 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 14.1 | 14.1 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 16.5 | 15.8 |
| 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) | 26% target share (last 3) |
| Position | RB | WR |
| Our call | START · RB2 | START · WR2 |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. Bucky Irving projects for 15.0 PPR points and Tetairoa McMillan for 14.8, 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: 15.0 PPR points for Bucky Irving and 14.8 for Tetairoa McMillan.
The sources range from 14.1 to 16.5 for Irving and from 14.1 to 15.8 for McMillan. Either result is well inside both ranges.
They share the same floor, 14.1 PPR points.
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 15.8 for Tetairoa McMillan.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Bucky Irving plays CAR and Tetairoa McMillan plays TB in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Irving faces the 5th-softest defense against RBs and McMillan 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 Tetairoa McMillan 26% 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 Tetairoa McMillan.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Bucky Irving nor Tetairoa McMillan 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 Tetairoa McMillan by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.