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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Kincaid is the TE18 in fantasy points per game, seeing an 18.8% target share and a 21.9% first-read share with 1.86 YPRR and 38.4 receiving yards per game. Kincaid leads tight ends in deep targets while ranking 13th in red zone looks. He is headed for a wonderful week against a pass defense that has allowed the fourth-most receiving yards and the eighth-most fantasy points per game to tight ends.
In his first NFL action last week, he had an 81% route share, a 16.1% target share, 0.70 YPRR, and a 20% first-read share. Pearsall has a solid 20% route win rate last week. Pearsall could operate as Purdy’s WR1 if Deebo Samuel and George Kittle sit. He could get pushed to a distant third in the pecking order if they play. Dallas offers a solid matchup this week as they have allowed the sixth-most PPR points per target and the fifth-most receiving yards per game to perimeter wide receivers.
Ferguson is the TE8 in fantasy points per game, ranking fifth in deep targets among tight ends. He only has three red zone targets this season, but two of them occurred in his last game, so maybe Dallas is seeing the error in their ways. Ferguson has a 17.3% target share, 1.58 YPRR, and a strong 18.6% first-read share. He faces a 49ers pass defense that has utilized two high at the eighth-highest rate (49.6%). Against two high, Ferguson leads the team with a 23.2% target share with 2.23 YPRR (second on the team) and a 26.4% first-read share. Dak Prescott will be looking his way early and often this week.
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