Start Zay Flowers. Flowers is projected for 12.8 PPR points vs 10.5 for Rome Odunze, and faces the 6th-softest defense against WRs this week.
Updated Nov 7, 4:39 PM ET
| Zay Flowers WR · BAL | Rome Odunze WR · CHI | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 9, avg of sources) | 12.8 | 10.5 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 11.3 | 9.6 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 13.9 | 11.4 |
| StatChasers projection | 11.3 (WR30) | 11.3 (WR29) |
| Opponent | vs JAX | vs TB |
| Opponent vs. position | 6th-softest (36.9 pts/g allowed) | 8th-toughest (28.0 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 30% target share (last 3) | 16% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | START · WR3 | START · WR3 |
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Start Zay Flowers. Flowers projects for 12.8 PPR points vs JAX, against 10.5 for Rome Odunze vs TB: a 2.3-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.
Zay Flowers is projected to score more: 12.8 PPR points to 10.5 for Rome Odunze.
The sources range from 11.3 to 13.9 for Flowers and from 9.6 to 11.4 for Odunze. The ranges overlap, so Odunze outscoring Flowers is a realistic result.
Zay Flowers is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Flowers at 11.3 PPR points, against 9.6 for Rome Odunze.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Zay Flowers has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Flowers at 13.9 PPR points, against 11.4 for Rome Odunze.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Zay Flowers plays JAX and Rome Odunze plays TB in Week 9.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Flowers faces the 6th-softest defense against WRs and Odunze faces the 8th-toughest defense against WRs, so Zay Flowers 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 Zay Flowers has drawn 30% of his team's targets, and Rome Odunze 16% of his team's targets.
Zay Flowers 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 Zay Flowers.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Zay Flowers nor Rome Odunze 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). Zay Flowers is projected by 6 of them and Rome Odunze by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.