Too close to call: Ladd McConkey (10.6) and Denzel Boston (10.5) project within 0.1 PPR points of each other in Week 8, and Ladd McConkey faces the 5th-toughest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| Ladd McConkey WR · LAC | Denzel Boston WR · CLE | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 10.6 | 10.5 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 10.4 | 9.4 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 11.0 | 11.4 |
| StatChasers projection | 10.5 (WR33) | 10.7 (WR30) |
| Opponent | vs LAR | vs PIT |
| Opponent vs. position | 5th-toughest (26.8 pts/g allowed) | 14th-toughest (30.2 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 8% target share (last 3) | 22% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | FLEX · Flex | START · WR3 |
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It is a coin flip. Ladd McConkey projects for 10.6 PPR points and Denzel Boston for 10.5, 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: 10.6 PPR points for Ladd McConkey and 10.5 for Denzel Boston.
The sources range from 10.4 to 11.0 for McConkey and from 9.4 to 11.4 for Boston. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Ladd McConkey is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has McConkey at 10.4 PPR points, against 9.4 for Denzel Boston.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Denzel Boston has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Boston at 11.4 PPR points, against 11.0 for Ladd McConkey.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Ladd McConkey plays LAR and Denzel Boston plays PIT in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, McConkey faces the 5th-toughest defense against WRs and Boston faces the 14th-toughest defense against WRs, so Denzel Boston 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 Ladd McConkey has drawn 8% of his team's targets, and Denzel Boston 22% of his team's targets.
Denzel Boston 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 Denzel Boston.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Ladd McConkey nor Denzel Boston 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). Ladd McConkey is projected by 5 of them and Denzel Boston by 5.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.