Start Colston Loveland. Loveland is projected for 13.2 PPR points vs 11.6 for Jaylen Waddle, and faces the 11th-softest defense against TEs this week.
Updated Nov 7, 4:39 PM ET
| Colston Loveland TE · CHI | Jaylen Waddle WR · DEN | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 9, avg of sources) | 13.2 | 11.6 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 10.9 | 11.1 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 17.0 | 12.5 |
| StatChasers projection | 13.6 (TE4) | 12.1 (WR23) |
| Opponent | vs TB | vs CAR |
| Opponent vs. position | 11th-softest (14.8 pts/g allowed) | 13th-toughest (29.8 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 29% target share (last 3) | 26% target share (last 3) |
| Position | TE | WR |
| Our call | START · Strong TE1 | START · WR2 |
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Start Colston Loveland. Loveland projects for 13.2 PPR points vs TB, against 11.6 for Jaylen Waddle vs CAR: a 1.6-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.
Colston Loveland is projected to score more: 13.2 PPR points to 11.6 for Jaylen Waddle.
The sources range from 10.9 to 17.0 for Loveland and from 11.1 to 12.5 for Waddle. The ranges overlap, so Waddle outscoring Loveland is a realistic result.
Jaylen Waddle is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Waddle at 11.1 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 12.5 for Jaylen Waddle.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Colston Loveland plays TB and Jaylen Waddle plays CAR in Week 9.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Loveland faces the 11th-softest defense against TEs and Waddle faces the 13th-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 Jaylen Waddle 26% 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 Jaylen Waddle 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 Jaylen Waddle by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.