Start Tyjae Spears. Spears is projected for 6.5 PPR points vs 5.6 for Zonovan Knight, and faces the 2nd-toughest defense against RBs this week.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Tyjae Spears RB · TEN | Zonovan Knight RB · ARI | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 6.5 | 5.6 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 7.2 | 7.6 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs CLE | vs DEN |
| Opponent vs. position | 2nd-toughest (16.2 pts/g allowed) | 10th-softest (23.3 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 8% carry share (last 3) | 20% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | RB | RB |
| Our call | SIT · Bench | SIT · Bench |
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Start Tyjae Spears. Spears projects for 6.5 PPR points vs CLE, against 5.6 for Zonovan Knight vs DEN: a 0.9-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.
Tyjae Spears is projected to score more: 6.5 PPR points to 5.6 for Zonovan Knight.
The sources range from 5.0 to 7.2 for Spears and from 3.6 to 7.6 for Knight. The ranges overlap, so Knight outscoring Spears is a realistic result.
Tyjae Spears is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Spears at 5.0 PPR points, against 3.6 for Zonovan Knight.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Zonovan Knight has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Knight at 7.6 PPR points, against 7.2 for Tyjae Spears.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Tyjae Spears plays CLE and Zonovan Knight plays DEN in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Spears faces the 2nd-toughest defense against RBs and Knight faces the 10th-softest defense against RBs, so Zonovan Knight 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 Tyjae Spears has drawn 8% of his team's carries, and Zonovan Knight 20% of his team's carries.
Zonovan Knight 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.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Tyjae Spears nor Zonovan Knight 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). Tyjae Spears is projected by 5 of them and Zonovan Knight by 2.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.