Too close to call: Colston Loveland (13.2) and Jalen Coker (13.1) project within 0.1 PPR points of each other in Week 9, and Colston Loveland faces the 11th-softest defense against TEs.
Updated Nov 7, 4:39 PM ET
| Colston Loveland TE · CHI | Jalen Coker WR · CAR | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 9, avg of sources) | 13.2 | 13.1 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 10.9 | 12.0 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 17.0 | 14.0 |
| StatChasers projection | 13.6 (TE4) | 13.1 (WR19) |
| Opponent | vs TB | vs DEN |
| Opponent vs. position | 11th-softest (14.8 pts/g allowed) | 7th-toughest (27.9 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 29% target share (last 3) | 22% target share (last 3) |
| Position | TE | WR |
| Our call | START · Strong TE1 | START · WR2 |
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It is a coin flip. Colston Loveland projects for 13.2 PPR points and Jalen Coker for 13.1, 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: 13.2 PPR points for Colston Loveland and 13.1 for Jalen Coker.
The sources range from 10.9 to 17.0 for Loveland and from 12.0 to 14.0 for Coker. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Jalen Coker is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Coker at 12.0 PPR points, against 10.9 for Colston Loveland.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Colston Loveland has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Loveland at 17.0 PPR points, against 14.0 for Jalen Coker.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Colston Loveland plays TB and Jalen Coker plays DEN in Week 9.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Loveland faces the 11th-softest defense against TEs and Coker faces the 7th-toughest defense against WRs, so Colston Loveland 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 Colston Loveland has drawn 29% of his team's targets, and Jalen Coker 22% of his team's targets.
Colston Loveland 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 Colston Loveland.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Colston Loveland nor Jalen Coker has an injury designation for Week 9.
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). Colston Loveland is projected by 5 of them and Jalen Coker by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.