Start em or sit em? Fantasy football start or sit decisions can be excruciating. While it feels great to make the right call and cruise to fantasy glory, it hurts just as much when you have someone erupt while on your bench. You can use our Who Should I Start? tool to gauge advice from fantasy football experts as you make your lineup decisions. And you can also sync your fantasy football league for free using our My Playbook tool for custom advice, rankings and analysis.

Let’s take a look at a few polarizing players and what the Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR) advise.

Fantasy Football Start em, Sit em Lineup Advice

Davante Adams (WR – LV) | WR8/Flex19 for Week 3

Flex Players the ECR has higher than Adams:

• Nico Collins (WR – HOU)
• Josh Jacobs (RB – GB)
• DeVonta Smith (WR – PHI)

Flex Players the ECR has lower than Adams:

• James Conner (RB – ARI)
• Marvin Harrison Jr. (WR – ARI)
• Kyren Williams (RB – LAR)

Some of the most popular Who Should I Start? searches of the week:

• Davante Adams or DeVonta Smith: 67% of experts chose Smith
• Davante Adams or James Conner: 50% of experts chose Adams/50% of experts chose Conner
• Davante Adams or Travis Etienne: 65% of experts chose Adams

Jaxon Smith-Njigba (WR – SEA) | WR26/Flex58 for Week 3

Flex Players the ECR has higher than Smith-Njigba:

• Amari Cooper (WR – CLE)
• Brock Bowers (TE – LV)
• George Kittle (TE – SF)

Flex Players the ECR has lower than Smith-Njigba:

• George Pickens (WR – PIT)
• Michael Pittman (WR – IND)
• Xavier Worthy (WR – KC)

Some of the most popular Who Should I Start? searches of the week:

• Jaxon Smith-Njigba or Jaylen Waddle: 73% of experts chose Smith-Njigba
• Jaxon Smith-Njigba or Xavier Worthy: 58% of experts chose Singletary
• Jaxon Smith-Njigba or Chuba Hubbard: 76% of experts chose Hubbard

Chris Godwin (WR – TB) | WR15/Flex31 for Week 3

Flex Players the ECR has higher than Godwin:

• Mike Evans (WR – TB)
• Chris Olave (WR – NO)
• Tyreek Hill (WR – MIA)

Flex Players the ECR has lower than Godwin:

• Tony Pollard (RB – TEN)
• DK Metcalf (WR – SEA)
• Brian Robinson Jr. (RB – WAS)

Some of the most popular Who Should I Start? searches of the week:

• Chris Godwin or Brian Robinson: 67% of experts chose Godwin
• Chris Godwin or Tony Pollard: 59% of experts chose Godwin
• Chris Godwin or Zach Charbonnet: 65% of experts chose Charbonnet
• Chris Godwin or Mike Evans: 67% of experts chose Evans

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