Start Emeka Egbuka. Egbuka is projected for 12.7 PPR points vs 11.4 for Jaylen Waddle, and faces the 11th-softest defense against WRs this week.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| Emeka Egbuka WR · TB | Jaylen Waddle WR · DEN | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 12.7 | 11.4 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 11.5 | 10.7 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 14.1 | 12.4 |
| StatChasers projection | 12.6 (WR21) | — |
| Opponent | vs ATL | vs KC |
| Opponent vs. position | 11th-softest (34.4 pts/g allowed) | 2nd-toughest (23.7 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 32% target share (last 3) | 27% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | START · WR2 | START · WR3 |
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Start Emeka Egbuka. Egbuka projects for 12.7 PPR points vs ATL, against 11.4 for Jaylen Waddle vs KC: a 1.3-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.
Emeka Egbuka is projected to score more: 12.7 PPR points to 11.4 for Jaylen Waddle.
The sources range from 11.5 to 14.1 for Egbuka and from 10.7 to 12.4 for Waddle. The ranges overlap, so Waddle outscoring Egbuka is a realistic result.
Emeka Egbuka is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Egbuka at 11.5 PPR points, against 10.7 for Jaylen Waddle.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Emeka Egbuka has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Egbuka at 14.1 PPR points, against 12.4 for Jaylen Waddle.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Emeka Egbuka plays ATL and Jaylen Waddle plays KC in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Egbuka faces the 11th-softest defense against WRs and Waddle faces the 2nd-toughest defense against WRs, so Emeka Egbuka 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 Emeka Egbuka has drawn 32% of his team's targets, and Jaylen Waddle 27% of his team's targets.
Emeka Egbuka 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 Emeka Egbuka.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Emeka Egbuka nor Jaylen Waddle 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). Emeka Egbuka is projected by 5 of them and Jaylen Waddle by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.