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

Tony Pollard (RB – TEN) | RB22/Flex36 for Week 4

Flex Players the ECR has higher than Pollard:

• Mike Evans (WR – TB)
• Chris Olave (WR – NO)
• Garrett Wilson (WR – NYJ)

Flex Players the ECR has lower than Pollard:

• Diontae Johnson (WR – CAR)
• Davante Adams (WR – LV)
• DJ Moore (WR – CHI)

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

• Tony Pollard or Mike Evans: 53% of experts chose Pollard
• Tony Pollard or Garrett Wilson: 58% of experts chose Wilson
• Tony Pollard or Davante Adams: 60% of experts chose Pollard

Calvin Ridley (WR – TEN) | WR35/Flex69 for Week 4

Flex Players the ECR has higher than Ridley:

• Christian Kirk (WR – JAX)
• Travis Kelce (TE – KC)
• Michael Pittman (WR – IND)

Flex Players the ECR has lower than Ridley:

• Zach Charbonnet (RB – SEA)
• Xavier Worthy (WR – KC)
• Bucky Irving (RB – TB)

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

• Calvin Ridley or Travis Kelce: 53% of experts chose Ridley
• Calvin Ridley or Michael Pittman: 58% of experts chose Ridley
• Calvin Ridley or Xavier Worthy: 67% of experts chose Ridley

Darnell Mooney (WR – ATL) | WR41/Flex77 for Week 4

Flex Players the ECR has higher than Mooney:

• Ladd McConkey (WR – LAC)
• Jaylen Waddle (WR – MIA)
• Courtland Sutton (WR – DEN)

Flex Players the ECR has lower than Mooney:

• Kyle Pitts (TE – ATL)
• Jerry Jeudy (WR – CLE)
• DeAndre Hopkins (WR – TEN)

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

• Darnell Mooney or Michael Wilson: 98% of experts chose Wilson
• Darnell Mooney or Courtland Sutton: 52% of experts chose Sutton
• Darnell Mooney or Braelon Allen: 56% of experts chose Mooney

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