Too close to call: Matthew Golden (14.2) and D'Andre Swift (14.1) project within 0.1 PPR points of each other in Week 8, and Matthew Golden faces the 6th-toughest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| Matthew Golden WR · GB | D'Andre Swift RB · CHI | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 14.2 | 14.1 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 13.7 | 13.0 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 15.1 | 17.7 |
| StatChasers projection | 13.9 (WR16) | 17.7 (RB6) |
| Opponent | vs CAR | vs SEA |
| Opponent vs. position | 6th-toughest (27.7 pts/g allowed) | 15th-toughest (20.9 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 28% target share (last 3) | 54% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | RB |
| Our call | START · WR2 | START · Strong RB1 |
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It is a coin flip. Matthew Golden projects for 14.2 PPR points and D'Andre Swift for 14.1, 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: 14.2 PPR points for Matthew Golden and 14.1 for D'Andre Swift.
The sources range from 13.7 to 15.1 for Golden and from 13.0 to 17.7 for Swift. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Matthew Golden is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Golden at 13.7 PPR points, against 13.0 for D'Andre Swift.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
D'Andre Swift has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Swift at 17.7 PPR points, against 15.1 for Matthew Golden.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Matthew Golden plays CAR and D'Andre Swift plays SEA in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Golden faces the 6th-toughest defense against WRs and Swift faces the 15th-toughest defense against RBs, so D'Andre Swift 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 Matthew Golden has drawn 28% of his team's targets, and D'Andre Swift 54% of his team's carries.
These numbers are in PPR. Full PPR adds a point per catch, so it helps whichever player sees more targets, which here is Matthew Golden.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Matthew Golden nor D'Andre Swift 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). Matthew Golden is projected by 5 of them and D'Andre Swift by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.