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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Rattler had a passable first start for fantasy purposes as the QB18 for Week 6, but his per-dropback metrics are all worrisome. Among 37 qualifying quarterbacks, Rattler ranks 30th in yards per attempt, 36th in passer rating, 27th in CPOE, and 35th in fantasy points per dropback. Denver will face the Saints without Patrick Surtain (concussion), but this is a tough enough pass defense that you should consider sitting Rattler, even in Superflex formats. Denver has held quarterbacks to the sixth-lowest passer rating, the third-lowest yards per attempt, and the seventh-lowest CPOE.
Means could operate as the team’s WR1 this week. Last week, in Rattler’s first NFL start, Means had a 70.8% route share, a 20% target share, a 27.5% air-yard share, 1.32 YPRR, one end zone target, and a team-leading 26.9% first-read share. Means is only a deep-league flex option. He’ll run about 65% of his routes against Levi Wallace (71.4% catch rate and 82.4 passer rating) and Riley Moss (60.5% catch rate and 77.7 passer rating). Denver has allowed the fewest fantasy points per game to wide receivers.
Nix has been pulling off his best Daniel Jones impression over the last four weeks. In three of the last four weeks, he has finished as a top 13 fantasy quarterback (QB13, QB8, QB8) despite remaining a bottom-of-the-league passer. Since Week 3, among 37 qualifying passers, Nix ranks 32nd in yards per attempt, 21st in passer rating, 29th in passing yards per game, and 28th in CPOE. His rushing production has helped to make his shortcomings through the air. Nix has averaged 6.2 rushing attempts and 30 rushing yards per game while logging three rushing scores. This week, he could keep the fantasy hot streak rolling against what has become a beatable New Orleans pass defense. The Saints have allowed the fourth-most passing yards per game, the ninth-highest yards per attempt, and the sixth-highest success rate per dropback.
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