Too close to call: Caleb Douglas (6.7) and Jordan Watkins (6.7) project within 0.0 PPR points of each other in Week 7, and Caleb Douglas faces the 12th-toughest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Caleb Douglas WR · MIA | Jordan Watkins WR · SF | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 6.7 | 6.7 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 5.3 | 5.6 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 7.6 | 7.4 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs NYJ | vs ATL |
| Opponent vs. position | 12th-toughest (30.2 pts/g allowed) | 6th-softest (37.0 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 20% target share (last 2) | 1% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | SIT · Bench | SIT · Bench |
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It is a coin flip. Caleb Douglas projects for 6.7 PPR points and Jordan Watkins for 6.7, within 0.0 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: 6.7 PPR points for Caleb Douglas and 6.7 for Jordan Watkins.
The sources range from 5.3 to 7.6 for Douglas and from 5.6 to 7.4 for Watkins. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Jordan Watkins is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Watkins at 5.6 PPR points, against 5.3 for Caleb Douglas.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Caleb Douglas has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Douglas at 7.6 PPR points, against 7.4 for Jordan Watkins.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Caleb Douglas plays NYJ and Jordan Watkins plays ATL in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Douglas faces the 12th-toughest defense against WRs and Watkins faces the 6th-softest defense against WRs, so Jordan Watkins 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 Caleb Douglas has drawn 20% of his team's targets, and Jordan Watkins 1% of his team's targets.
Caleb Douglas 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, which here is Caleb Douglas.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Caleb Douglas nor Jordan Watkins 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). Caleb Douglas is projected by 4 of them and Jordan Watkins by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.