Too close to call: Drake London (17.4) and George Kittle (17.4) project within 0.0 PPR points of each other in Week 9, and Drake London faces the 14th-softest defense against WRs.
Updated Nov 7, 4:39 PM ET
| Drake London WR · ATL | George Kittle TE · SF | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 9, avg of sources) | 17.4 | 17.4 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 16.4 | 15.7 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 18.5 | 18.6 |
| StatChasers projection | 18.2 (WR7) | 18.2 (TE2) |
| Opponent | vs CIN | vs LV |
| Opponent vs. position | 14th-softest (32.9 pts/g allowed) | 4th-softest (18.2 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 30% target share (last 3) | 25% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | TE |
| Our call | START · Strong WR1 | START · Strong TE1 |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. Drake London projects for 17.4 PPR points and George Kittle for 17.4, within 0.0 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: 17.4 PPR points for Drake London and 17.4 for George Kittle.
The sources range from 16.4 to 18.5 for London and from 15.7 to 18.6 for Kittle. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Drake London is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has London at 16.4 PPR points, against 15.7 for George Kittle.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
George Kittle has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Kittle at 18.6 PPR points, against 18.5 for Drake London.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Drake London plays CIN and George Kittle plays LV in Week 9.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, London faces the 14th-softest defense against WRs and Kittle faces the 4th-softest defense against TEs, so George Kittle 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 Drake London has drawn 30% of his team's targets, and George Kittle 25% of his team's targets.
Drake London 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 Drake London.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Drake London nor George Kittle 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). Drake London is projected by 6 of them and George Kittle by 5.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.