Dominic Zvada or Tyler Bass: Who Should You Start?

Preliminary board

2026 Week 1 · deterministic head-to-head · Verdicts based on PPR scoring.

Verdicts sharpen as practice reports land.

Start Zvada — the red-zone opportunity and projection edges are too wide to ignore.

Dominic Zvada gets more red-zone stalls to kick from (1.9 to 1.3 per game) and projects 8.1 to Bass's 7.5. No signal favors Bass this week. The gap is narrow.

Dominic Zvada

KNYGvs DAL

8.18.18.1 Projected Points

Start

Tyler Bass

K20BUFvs HOU

7.57.57.5 Projected Points

Sit

Why Dominic Zvada

Start

Start — projects K20 this week: 1.9 red-zone stalls a game, and 8.1 pts projected vs DAL.

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.

Why Tyler Bass

Sit

Sit — K20 by consensus, projects K27 this week: 1.3 red-zone stalls a game, and 7.5 pts projected vs HOU.

1.8 FG tries projected, just under the 2.0 league median this week.
BUF's offense stalls in the red zone 1.3 times a game (2025) — that's where kicker points come from.
Vegas has BUF at 23.5 points as 1.5-point favorites.

Head-to-head stats

Metric	Dominic Zvada	Tyler Bass
Projected points	8.18.18.1	7.57.57.5
Consensus rank	—	K20
Projected FG attempts	2.1	1.8
Red-zone stalls / game	1.9(2025)	1.3(2025)
Implied total · spread	23.5+1.5	23.5-1.5
Depth chart	K1	K1