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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Fantasy Football Start em, Sit em Lineup Advice
Johnson only had a 27.3% route share last week while he didn’t draw a target. This timeframe is too short to expect Johnson’s involvement to be increased enough for him to be fantasy viable this week. Sit him again this week.
Bateman is an easy fade this week. The correlation between flexing and sitting Bateman has boiled down to their ability to defend deep passing. Bateman ranks second on the team in deep targets. Deep targets make up 21.6% of his target volume this season. Cincy has allowed the sixth-fewest deep passing yards per game and the fourth-lowest CPOE to deep passing. While I don’t project Diontae Johnson to have a 70% route share this week, the risk remains that in two wide receiver sets, Bateman’s snaps could be cannibalized by Johnson. Sit Bateman this week.
Last week, Andrews only had a 49% snap rate (his lowest since Week 4) and a 46% route share, which is likely related to their blowout win against Denver. In weeks 5-8, Andrews had a 54.4% route share, a 14.1% target share, 2.48 YPRR, and a 15.7% first-read share. Andrews had six red zone targets and four scores in that four-game stretch. This week’s game against Cincy figures to be a more competitive game, which should lead to more snaps and routes for Andrews. Cincy has allowed the seventh-most fantasy points per game and the eighth-most receiving yards per game to tight ends.
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