Wilson
RB · SEA vs LAC
Proj pts
9.8pts
market
Price
RB · SEA vs LAC
QuestionableProj pts
9.7pts
market
Emanuel Wilson or Jadarian Price: who should I start in Week 4?
Start Emanuel Wilson. Bench Jadarian Price. Emanuel Wilson leads at 9.8. Jadarian Price is the first one out, 0.1 short.
Crowd: started Price 34%
Availability & news
Jadarian PriceQuestionable
Price was limited in practice Wednesday due to a chest injury, Bob Condotta of The Seattle Times reports.(rotowire, Sep 30, 2026)
Highlights
Pros
- Positive game scriptFavored
Cons
- Committee back17% of touches
- Tough matchupTough · D- vs RB
Pros
- Positive game scriptFavored
- Big-play upside33% boom weeks
Cons
- Committee back22% of touches
- Tough matchupTough · D- vs RB
Some recent form, opportunity and matchup figures still lean on the 2025 season (not enough games played this season yet).
Week 4 · Updated Tue 6:00 AM ET
Why Emanuel Wilson
Start Emanuel Wilson — projects 9.8, a tough matchup vs LAC, but the role is cooling.
Emanuel Wilson projects 9.8 points on a 4.6–14.3 range. The matchup grades as tough against LAC. Usage: carries / game at 7.4. Net: Emanuel Wilson is start this week.
Working for Wilson: Positive game script (Favored).
Working against Wilson: Committee back (17% of touches), Tough matchup (Tough · D- vs RB).
Where Wilson leads the head-to-head: Projection (9.8 vs 9.7); Goal line carries (4 vs 1); Red zone carries (24 vs 3).
Why Jadarian Price
Sit Jadarian Price — projects 9.7, a tough matchup vs LAC.
Jadarian Price projects 9.7 points. The matchup grades as tough against LAC. Usage: carries / game at 9.3. Net: Jadarian Price is a bench this week.
Working for Price: Positive game script (Favored), Big-play upside (33% boom weeks).
Working against Price: Committee back (22% of touches), Tough matchup (Tough · D- vs RB).
Where Price leads the head-to-head: Touch share (22% vs 17%); Opportunity score (9.2 vs 6.2); Last 3 avg (4.7 vs 3.6); Last 5 avg (4.7 vs 4.0); vs season (+0.0 vs -2.0); Consistency (42% vs 28%); Boom rate (33% vs 11%); Carries / game (9.3 vs 7.4); Touches / game (10.7 vs 8.2); Target share (8% vs 4%); Opportunity score (exp pts) (9.2 vs 6.2); Yards per carry (4.2 vs 4.0); Snap share (37% vs 31%).
Recent form
Emanuel Wilson's last 5 games: PPR points 3.4, 5.8, 0.3, 9.2, 1.4 (oldest to newest).
Jadarian Price's last 3 games: PPR points 1.2, 5, 7.8 (low to high; the card does not say which came first).
Wilson has already beaten Price's 9.7 projection in 0 of his 5; Price has beaten Wilson's 9.8 in 0 of his 3.
At least 1 of these 5 were played before the 2026 season — the card does not date them.
Matchup
Emanuel Wilson (SEA) faces LAC, kickoff Sun 4:25 PM ET. The matchup is rated tough. Betting line: implied team total 24.8, spread -7.0.
Jadarian Price (SEA) faces LAC, kickoff Sun 4:25 PM ET. The matchup is rated tough. Betting line: implied team total 24.8, spread -7.0.
How to read these numbers
- Confidence in the call
- How clear-cut this start/sit call is — how decisively the player beats the alternative he competes with (for a starter, the best player on your bench; for a bench player, the last one in your lineup), on both projected points and the overlap of their likely ranges. A clear play reads high; a genuine toss-up reads lower. It rates the decision, not the player’s own volatility, and is not a measured accuracy rate.
- Floor
- The 20th percentile of the same simulated distribution.
- Ceiling
- The 90th percentile of the same simulated distribution.
- Opportunity score
- Expected points from projected volume alone, before any efficiency of this player’s own: each projected touch and target valued at the positional average for the scoring format.
- Matchup grade
- The opponent’s points allowed to this position per game, weighted toward recent games, then graded on a curve across the 32 defenses.
- Implied team total
- The points the betting market expects this team to score, derived from the game total and the spread. Market-derived, not modelled by Nuvela.
- Trend
- The direction of his scoring across the trailing window, classified as heating, steady or cooling.
- Touch share trend
- The same classification, measured on his share of team touches rather than on his points.
- Consistency
- The share of his games that landed within a set band of his own per-game average.
- Boom rate
- The share of his games that finished inside the top 12 scorers at his position for that week.
- Bust rate
- The share of his games that came in under half of what he was projected for that week.
- Vacated touches
- Carries and targets belonging to team-mates who are ruled out, on IR, or listed as non-participants for this week, taken at their recent per-game rate.
- Defense funnel
- Whether the opponent’s rush defense and pass defense are far enough apart to push offenses one way. A gap inside the band reads Neutral.
- Game script projection
- The expected state of the game for his team — favoured, level or trailing — taken from the closing spread.
More start/sit comparisons from this week's PPR projections. Open a pair for the call and the reasoning.