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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Dobbins is the RB18 in fantasy points per game, ranking 19th in opportunity share, 18th in weighted opportunities, and 11th in carries. He has averaged 18.3 touches and 92.4 total yards per game. Among 66 qualifying backs, Dobbins ranks 27th in explosive run rate and 23rd in missed tackles forced per attempt. Dobbins should destroy the Saints’ run defense this week. New Orleans has allowed the fourth-most rushing yards per game, the third-most rushing touchdowns (tied), the highest yards per carry to gap runs, and the second-highest gap success rate (Dobbins 52.6% gap).
Last week, in his first game as a full-time starter this season, Tillman had a 23.1% target share, a 36.7% air-yard share, 1.80 YPRR, and a 31.3% first-read share. He was battling David Njoku all game as the Browns’ go-to receiving option. Baltimore has utilized single high with 55.0% of their defensive snaps. Tillman ranks second on the team with a 19% TPRR against single high, but he has also only had 0.90 YPRR. Tillman’s lack of efficiency against single high is concerning, but Baltimore could help with that this week. The Ravens have allowed the 12th-highest PPR points per target and the third-most receiving yards per game to perimeter wide receivers this season.
Hopkins arriving in Kansas City is an awesome development for the outlook of this entire offense. Once up to speed, he should be the clear WR1 of this offense, competing with Travis Kelce for the weekly lead in targets. I’m not sure if he will be active this week with the short timeframe in which he needs to get acclimated to everything. Even if he is, his snap count will be limited. Sit Hopkins this week, but rejoice in his new home and his outlook for fantasy for the rest of the season.
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