Start Tee Higgins. Higgins is projected for 14.8 PPR points vs 14.5 for Saquon Barkley, and faces the 11th-softest defense against WRs this week.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Tee Higgins WR · CIN | Saquon Barkley RB · PHI | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 14.8 | 14.5 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 14.4 | 13.9 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 15.2 | 15.2 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs BAL | vs DAL |
| Opponent vs. position | 11th-softest (34.1 pts/g allowed) | 11th-softest (23.2 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 22% target share (last 3) | 27% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | RB |
| Our call | START · WR2 | START · RB2 |
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Start Tee Higgins. Higgins projects for 14.8 PPR points vs BAL, against 14.5 for Saquon Barkley vs DAL: a 0.3-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.
Tee Higgins is projected to score more: 14.8 PPR points to 14.5 for Saquon Barkley.
The sources range from 14.4 to 15.2 for Higgins and from 13.9 to 15.2 for Barkley. The ranges overlap, so Barkley outscoring Higgins is a realistic result.
Tee Higgins is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Higgins at 14.4 PPR points, against 13.9 for Saquon Barkley.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
They share the same ceiling, 15.2 PPR points.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Tee Higgins plays BAL and Saquon Barkley plays DAL in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Higgins faces the 11th-softest defense against WRs and Barkley faces the 11th-softest defense against RBs, so Tee Higgins 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 Tee Higgins has drawn 22% 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 Tee Higgins.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Tee Higgins 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). Tee Higgins is projected by 3 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.