Too close to call: Tucker Kraft (11.8) and Jaylen Waddle (11.7) project within 0.1 PPR points of each other in Week 7, and Tucker Kraft faces the 1st-softest defense against TEs.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Tucker Kraft TE · GB | Jaylen Waddle WR · DEN | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 11.8 | 11.7 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 11.6 | 11.2 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 12.2 | 12.7 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs DET | vs ARI |
| Opponent vs. position | 1st-softest (31.9 pts/g allowed) | 10th-softest (34.9 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 20% target share (last 3) | 21% target share (last 3) |
| Position | TE | WR |
| Our call | START · Strong TE1 | START · WR3 |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. Tucker Kraft projects for 11.8 PPR points and Jaylen Waddle for 11.7, 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: 11.8 PPR points for Tucker Kraft and 11.7 for Jaylen Waddle.
The sources range from 11.6 to 12.2 for Kraft and from 11.2 to 12.7 for Waddle. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Tucker Kraft is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Kraft at 11.6 PPR points, against 11.2 for Jaylen Waddle.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Jaylen Waddle has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Waddle at 12.7 PPR points, against 12.2 for Tucker Kraft.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Tucker Kraft plays DET and Jaylen Waddle plays ARI in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Kraft faces the 1st-softest defense against TEs and Waddle faces the 10th-softest defense against WRs, so Tucker Kraft 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 Tucker Kraft has drawn 20% of his team's targets, and Jaylen Waddle 21% of his team's targets.
Jaylen Waddle 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 Jaylen Waddle.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Tucker Kraft nor Jaylen Waddle 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). Tucker Kraft is projected by 4 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.