Too close to call: Rashee Rice (12.4) and Carnell Tate (12.3) project within 0.1 PPR points of each other in Week 8, and Rashee Rice faces the 7th-toughest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| Rashee Rice WR · KC | Carnell Tate WR · TEN | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 12.4 | 12.3 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 11.1 | 11.1 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 13.2 | 13.8 |
| StatChasers projection | 11.1 (WR28) | 12.2 (WR24) |
| Opponent | vs DEN | vs CIN |
| Opponent vs. position | 7th-toughest (27.8 pts/g allowed) | 16th-softest (31.4 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 16% target share (last 3) | 22% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | START · WR3 | 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. Rashee Rice projects for 12.4 PPR points and Carnell Tate for 12.3, within 0.1 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: 12.4 PPR points for Rashee Rice and 12.3 for Carnell Tate.
The sources range from 11.1 to 13.2 for Rice and from 11.1 to 13.8 for Tate. Either result is well inside both ranges.
They share the same floor, 11.1 PPR points.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Carnell Tate has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Tate at 13.8 PPR points, against 13.2 for Rashee Rice.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Rashee Rice plays DEN and Carnell Tate plays CIN in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Rice faces the 7th-toughest defense against WRs and Tate faces the 16th-softest defense against WRs, so Carnell Tate 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 Rashee Rice has drawn 16% of his team's targets, and Carnell Tate 22% of his team's targets.
Carnell Tate 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 Carnell Tate.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Rashee Rice nor Carnell Tate 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). Rashee Rice is projected by 5 of them and Carnell Tate by 5.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.