Start Dominic Zvada over Andy Borregales — Week 1 Start/Sit Verdict

Start Zvada — the projection and game script edges are too wide to ignore.

Dominic Zvada projects 8.1 to Borregales's 6.9 and plays in the better game script (23.5 implied team points to 20.5). No signal favors Borregales this week. The gap is comfortable.

Andy Borregales

K20NEvs SEA

6.96.96.9 Projected Points

Sit

Dominic Zvada

K19NYGvs DAL

8.18.18.1 Projected Points

Start· medium

Why Andy Borregales

Sit

Starting K with strong leg. Accurate placekicker handling all field-goal duties.

Sit — K20 by consensus, projects K32 this week: 1.6 red-zone stalls a game, and 6.9 pts projected vs SEA.

Calm forecast at kickoff.
1.8 FG tries projected, just under the 2.0 league median this week.
NE's offense stalls in the red zone 1.6 times a game (2025) — that's where kicker points come from.
Vegas has NE at 20.5 points as 3.5-point dogs.

Why Dominic Zvada

Start· medium

Starting PK with big leg and strong college accuracy. Rookie with no prior NFL sample.

8.1 projected on 2.1 FG tries plus 2.2 XPs, with a 23.5 implied total and 1.9 red-zone stalls per game feeding the leg — startable K1 volume.

Calm forecast at kickoff.
2.1 FG tries projected, just over the 2.0 league median this week.
NYG's offense stalls in the red zone 1.9 times a game (2025) — that's where kicker points come from.
Vegas has NYG at 23.5 points as 1.5-point dogs.

The call

The 23.5 implied team total is squarely in the range where kickers clear 8 points, and the sheet projects 1.7 makes on 2.1 attempts plus 2.2 extra points — that's a full workload, not a boom-or-bust one-kick night.
Red-zone stalls of 1.9 per game over 17 games is the key driver: this offense reliably converts drives into field-goal tries, which is exactly what separates fantasy kickers.
He's the locked-in PK1 with no injury designation, so there's no split-duty or availability risk to price in.
Only wobble is the open roof with no forecast yet — check wind before locking him in, but nothing in the sheet argues for a downgrade.

Latest on Zvada

Presser Points: Dominic Zvada wins Giants' kicker competition

The suspense is over for at least one roster spot. Dominic Zvada will be the Giants’ kicker heading into the 2026 season.

giants.com · Aug 29, 2026

Reported by the sources listed — not independently verified.

Head-to-head stats

Metric	Andy Borregales	Dominic Zvada
Projected points	6.96.96.9	8.18.18.1
Consensus rank	K20	K19
Projected FG attempts	1.8	2.1
Red-zone stalls / game	1.6(2025)	1.9(2025)
Kicking conditions	Calm forecast at kickoff	Calm forecast at kickoff
Implied total · spread	20.5+3.5	23.5+1.5
Field-goal %	84.4%(2025)	—
Depth chart	K1	K1