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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Last week Wicks blew up after Christian Watson was sidelined with an injury. He finished as the WR3 in fantasy, drawing a 24.1% target share, a 40.3% air-yard share, and a 30.6% first-read share with 1.86 YPRR. He led the team with four end-zone targets. He was fantastic. In Week 5, he should destroy the Rams secondary. The Rams utilize single-high at the seventh-highest rate (57.9%). Against single-high, Wicks leads the team with a 33% TPRR and ranks second to only Jayden Reed with 2.70 YPRR. Last year, he logged a 22% TPRR and 2.10 YPRR against single-high. Wicks will run about 66% of his routes against Tre’Davious White (69.2% catch rate and 147.8 passer rating) and Cobie Durant (56.3% catch rate and 70.3 passer rating). The Rams have allowed the highest PPR points per target and the second-most receiving yards per game to perimeter wide receivers.
Well, hello there, Justin Fields. After Fields’ monster Week 4 performance, he’s the QB7 in fantasy points per game. Among 37 qualifying quarterbacks, Fields ranks 12th in yards per attempt, 14th in passer rating, third in highly accurate throw rate, and ninth in fantasy points per dropback. Add this passing prowess on top of the fourth-most carries per game, the second-most red zone carries, and the seventh-most rushing yards per game among quarterbacks, and you will heaping mounds of fantasy goodness. Fields is a strong QB1 this week, facing a Dallas pass rush that has been decimated by injuries and an ailing secondary. The Cowboys’ pass defense ranks 15th in EPA per dropback while allowing the tenth-highest yards per attempt and the eighth-highest CPOE.
Just as Pitts offered some hope last week with a season-high five targets and 59 receiving yards, he followed that game up with his worst outing of the season. Pitts only saw three targets last week and failed to secure any of them as he blanked the box score. Pitts has only managed a pitiful 10.9% target share, 1.24 YPRR, and a 9.5% first-read share. That minuscule first-read share ranks fifth on the Atlanta depth chart. Tampa Bay has allowed the tenth-fewest fantasy points per game to tight ends while ranking 15th in receptions per game allowed to the position. Sit Pitts this week.
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