Too close to call: Luther Burden III (12.8) and Emeka Egbuka (12.7) project within 0.1 PPR points of each other in Week 8, and Luther Burden III faces the 1st-toughest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| Luther Burden III WR · CHI | Emeka Egbuka WR · TB | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 12.8 | 12.7 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 12.3 | 11.5 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 13.4 | 14.1 |
| StatChasers projection | 12.4 (WR23) | 12.6 (WR21) |
| Opponent | vs SEA | vs ATL |
| Opponent vs. position | 1st-toughest (20.9 pts/g allowed) | 11th-softest (34.4 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 18% target share (last 3) | 32% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | START · WR2 | START · WR2 |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. Luther Burden III projects for 12.8 PPR points and Emeka Egbuka for 12.7, 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: 12.8 PPR points for Luther Burden III and 12.7 for Emeka Egbuka.
The sources range from 12.3 to 13.4 for Burden III and from 11.5 to 14.1 for Egbuka. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Luther Burden III is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Burden III at 12.3 PPR points, against 11.5 for Emeka Egbuka.
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 13.4 for Luther Burden III.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Luther Burden III plays SEA and Emeka Egbuka plays ATL in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Burden III faces the 1st-toughest defense against WRs and Egbuka faces the 11th-softest 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 Luther Burden III has drawn 18% of his team's targets, and Emeka Egbuka 32% 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 Luther Burden III nor Emeka Egbuka 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). Luther Burden III is projected by 5 of them and Emeka Egbuka by 5.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.