Too close to call: Stefon Diggs (11.8) and Tucker Kraft (11.6) project within 0.2 PPR points of each other in Week 8, and Stefon Diggs faces the 2nd-softest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| Stefon Diggs WR · WAS | Tucker Kraft TE · GB | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 11.8 | 11.6 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 11.2 | 10.8 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 12.6 | 12.7 |
| StatChasers projection | 11.5 (WR25) | 12.0 (TE5) |
| Opponent | vs PHI | vs CAR |
| Opponent vs. position | 2nd-softest (40.1 pts/g allowed) | 15th-softest (13.5 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 23% target share (last 3) | 17% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | TE |
| Our call | START · WR3 | START · Strong TE1 |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. Stefon Diggs projects for 11.8 PPR points and Tucker Kraft for 11.6, 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: 11.8 PPR points for Stefon Diggs and 11.6 for Tucker Kraft.
The sources range from 11.2 to 12.6 for Diggs and from 10.8 to 12.7 for Kraft. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Stefon Diggs is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Diggs at 11.2 PPR points, against 10.8 for Tucker Kraft.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Tucker Kraft has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Kraft at 12.7 PPR points, against 12.6 for Stefon Diggs.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Stefon Diggs plays PHI and Tucker Kraft plays CAR in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Diggs faces the 2nd-softest defense against WRs and Kraft faces the 15th-softest defense against TEs, so Stefon Diggs 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 Stefon Diggs has drawn 23% of his team's targets, and Tucker Kraft 17% of his team's targets.
Stefon Diggs 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 Stefon Diggs.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Stefon Diggs nor Tucker Kraft 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). Stefon Diggs is projected by 5 of them and Tucker Kraft by 5.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.