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

Devin Singletary (RB – NYG) | RB26/Flex60 for Week 5

Flex Players the ECR has higher than Singletary:

• Courtland Sutton (WR – DEN)
• Trey McBride (TE – ARI)
• Trey Sermon (RB – IND)

Flex Players the ECR has lower than Singletary:

• Wan’Dale Robinson (WR – NYG)
• Jerry Jeudy (WR – CLE)
• Jake Ferguson (TE – DAL)

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

• Devin Singletary or Courtland Sutton: 93% of experts chose Singletary
• Devin Singletary or Josh Downs: 88% of experts chose Singletary
• Devin Singletary or Trey Sermon: 73% of experts chose Singletary

Rico Dowdle (RB – DAL) | RB27/Flex70 for Week 5

Flex Players the ECR has higher than Dowdle:

• Jakobi Meyers (WR – LV)
• Brock Bowers (TE – LV)
• Xavier Legette (WR – CAR)

Flex Players the ECR has lower than Dowdle:

• Josh Downs (WR – IND)
• Jordan Addison (WR – MIN)
• Tutu Atwell (WR – LAR)

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

• Rico Dowdle or Jakobi Meyers: 57% of experts chose Meyers
• Rico Dowdle or Romeo Doubs: 65% of experts chose Doubs
• Rico Dowdle or Chase Brown: 58% of experts chose Dowdle

Jordan Whittington (WR – LAR) | WR45/Flex79 for Week 5

Flex Players the ECR has higher than Whittington:

• Tank Dell (WR – HOU)
• Jauan Jennings (WR – SF)
• Dalton Kincaid (TE – BUF)

Flex Players the ECR has lower than Whittington:

• Tyler Lockett (WR – SEA)
• Jaylen Waddle (WR – MIA)
• Tre Tucker (WR – LV)

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

• Jordan Whittington or Jauan Jennings: 58% of experts chose Jennings
• Jordan Whittington or Dalton Kincaid: 55% of experts chose Kincaid
• Jordan Whittington or Tyler Lockett: 56% of experts chose Lockett

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