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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Moss remains the Bengals’ clear workhorse back, playing at least 65% of the snaps weekly, averaging 13.7 touches and 68.3 total yards. Last week, he absorbed 85% of the red zone snaps, so any worries about Chase Brown are a bit overblown. Among 50 qualifying backs, he ranks 14th in explosive run rate, 26th in missed tackles forced per attempt, and 20th in yards after contact per attempt. Moss has another plus matchup this week against Carolina, who have allowed the fifth-most rushing yards per game, the sixth-highest success rate to gap runs (Moss 55% gap), and the sixth-lowest stuff rate.
Darnold has been nothing short of amazing this season. He’s the QB4 in fantasy points per game, ranking fifth in yards per attempt, fourth in passer rating, ninth in CPOE, and 12th in highly accurate throw rate. It’s amazing what a good coordinator and scheme can do for a player. Darnold is in the midst of reviving his NFL career. If you want a feel-good story each NFL season, Danold’s should be front and center. Darnold should keep the feel-good train rolling down the tracks this week. The Packers’ pass defense has been exploitable this season. They have allowed the 12th-highest yards per attempt, the fifth-most passing touchdowns, the eighth-most passing yards per game, and the 12th-highest success rate per dropback.
Cooper finally bounced back, trouncing the Giants’ secondary as the WR5 for the week despite only 58% of his targets being deemed as catchable. That one big game has elevated Cooper to WR35 for the season with an overall target share of 25%, a 45.9% air-yard share, 0.90 YPRR, and a 30.6% first-read share. Cooper has still only seen a catchable target rate of 58.6% this season. It’s tough playing with Deshaun Watson as your quarterback these days. We’ll see if Cooper can keep the good times rolling in Week 4 against a Raiders’ secondary that has allowed the ninth-most fantasy points per game to wide receivers. Cooper will run about 77% of his routes against Jack Jones (69.2% catch rate and 126.0 passer rating) and Jakorian Bennett (38.5% catch rate and 55.6 passer rating).
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