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 fantasy football expert Derek Brown advises. And you can find all of DBro’s fantasy football outlook in this week’s fantasy football primer.
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Fantasy Football Start em, Sit em Lineup Advice
Thank you, Andy Dalton. Last week was the version of Diontae Johnson that we thought we were getting this season. He finished the week as the WR6 in fantasy with a 35.1% target share, a 59.1% air-yard share, 3.49 YPRR, and a 44.8% first-read share. Look for Dalton to continue to feed his WR1 this week. Johnson leads the team with five end zone targets. Johnson will run about 80% of his routes against Cam Taylor-Britt (50% catch rate and 95.8 passer rating) and Dax Hill (73% catch rate and 124.4 passer rating). The Bengals have allowed the second-highest PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers.
Shakir is the WR20 in fantasy points per game as the leading receiver for the Bills. He has a 19.2% target share, 2.95 YPRR, and a 22% first-read share while averaging 56 receiving yards per game. He should compete with Dalton Kincaid to lead the team in receiving stats again this week. Baltimore has the sixth-highest rate of two high this season (52.7%). Against two-high, Shakir has posted a strong 1.95 YPRR. Baltimore has been a slot funnel so far this season. They have allowed the 11th-highest PPR points per target and the fifth-most receiving yards to slot receivers. Shakir will run about 82% of his routes from the slot this week against Kyle Hamilton (88.8% catch rate and 148.1 passer rating).
Over the last two weeks, Allen has played 32-35% of the snaps, averaging 11.5 touches and 62 total yards. He has finished as the RB6 and RB30 in fantasy. Allen has had a consistent stand-alone role behind Breece Hall, with 36% of the rushing snaps, 32% of the passing down work, and a 27% red zone snap share. Allen has been impressive with this work. Among 50 qualifying backs, he ranks fifth in missed tackles forced per attempt and third in yards after contact per attempt. Allen offers strong flex appeal this week against a run defense that have given up the 10th-highest explosive run rate, the seventh-highest missed tackle rate, and the fifth-highest yards after contact per attempt.
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