Start Tre Tucker. Tucker is projected for 9.8 PPR points vs 9.5 for DeMario Douglas, and faces the 4th-toughest defense against WRs this week.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Tre Tucker WR · LV | DeMario Douglas WR · NE | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 9.8 | 9.5 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 9.1 | 8.6 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 10.5 | 10.5 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs LAR | vs CHI |
| Opponent vs. position | 4th-toughest (26.9 pts/g allowed) | 15th-toughest (31.5 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 16% target share (last 3) | 17% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | FLEX · Flex | FLEX · Flex |
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Start Tre Tucker. Tucker projects for 9.8 PPR points vs LAR, against 9.5 for DeMario Douglas vs CHI: a 0.3-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.
Tre Tucker is projected to score more: 9.8 PPR points to 9.5 for DeMario Douglas.
The sources range from 9.1 to 10.5 for Tucker and from 8.6 to 10.5 for Douglas. The ranges overlap, so Douglas outscoring Tucker is a realistic result.
Tre Tucker is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Tucker at 9.1 PPR points, against 8.6 for DeMario Douglas.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
They share the same ceiling, 10.5 PPR points.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Tre Tucker plays LAR and DeMario Douglas plays CHI in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Tucker faces the 4th-toughest defense against WRs and Douglas faces the 15th-toughest defense against WRs, so DeMario Douglas 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 Tre Tucker has drawn 16% of his team's targets, and DeMario Douglas 17% of his team's targets.
DeMario 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 DeMario Douglas.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Tre Tucker nor DeMario Douglas 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). Tre Tucker is projected by 4 of them and DeMario Douglas by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.