Too close to call: Jalen Coker (14.7) and Saquon Barkley (14.5) project within 0.2 PPR points of each other in Week 7, and Jalen Coker faces the 14th-softest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Jalen Coker WR · CAR | Saquon Barkley RB · PHI | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 14.7 | 14.5 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 13.2 | 13.9 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 15.6 | 15.2 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs TB | vs DAL |
| Opponent vs. position | 14th-softest (32.9 pts/g allowed) | 11th-softest (23.2 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 24% target share (last 3) | 27% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | RB |
| Our call | START · WR2 | START · RB2 |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. Jalen Coker projects for 14.7 PPR points and Saquon Barkley for 14.5, within 0.2 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: 14.7 PPR points for Jalen Coker and 14.5 for Saquon Barkley.
The sources range from 13.2 to 15.6 for Coker and from 13.9 to 15.2 for Barkley. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Saquon Barkley is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Barkley at 13.9 PPR points, against 13.2 for Jalen Coker.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Jalen Coker has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Coker at 15.6 PPR points, against 15.2 for Saquon Barkley.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Jalen Coker plays TB and Saquon Barkley plays DAL in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Coker faces the 14th-softest defense against WRs and Barkley faces the 11th-softest defense against RBs, so Saquon Barkley 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 Jalen Coker has drawn 24% of his team's targets, and Saquon Barkley 27% of his team's carries.
These numbers are in PPR. Full PPR adds a point per catch, so it helps whichever player sees more targets, which here is Jalen Coker.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Jalen Coker nor Saquon Barkley 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). Jalen Coker is projected by 4 of them and Saquon Barkley by 5.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.