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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The Hill dice roll paid off last week, as he was the TE5 in weekly fantasy scoring. It’s time to pick up the die again this week and pray for fantasy points. Last week, Hill played 44% of the snaps with five rushing attempts, 19 rushing yards, and a rushing touchdown. He also had a 42.4% route share, a 15.6% target share (led the team), 41 receiving yards, and a 20% first-read share (also led the team). Hill has multiple outs for fantasy success this week. Atlanta has allowed the ninth-most fantasy points to tight ends while also surrendering the tenth-most rushing yards per game and the ninth-highest explosive run rate.
Since Week 4, in his full games played, Legette has had an 18.6% target share, a 30.1% air-yard share, 1.21 YPRR, and a 23.2% first-read share. In those five games, he has had four end-zone targets. Since Week 3, the Giants have utilized single high at the third-highest rate (64.7%). Across his last five full games, against single high, Legette has seen his YPRR slightly increase to 1.33. Legette is a solid flex this week against a Giants’ secondary that has allowed the ninth-most fantasy points per game to perimeter wide receivers.
In his two starts this season, Wilson finished as the QB3 and the QB24 in weekly fantasy scoring. We shouldn’t expect much (if any) rushing equity from Wilson this season, as he has averaged only five rushing yards per game so far. Among 42 qualifying quarterbacks, Wilson ranks second in yards per attempt, fourth in passer rating, and sixth in fantasy points per dropback, but he also ranks 21st in CPOE and 42nd in highly accurate throw rate. All of this is to say that the reality of his fantasy value lies somewhere in the middle of those two weekly finishes. Wilson has been productive so far, but his per-dropback metrics also raise concerns. Wilson takes on a recently awesome Washington pass defense. Since Week 6, they have switched to more man coverage and single high coverage with fantastic results. During that stretch, Washington allowed the second-fewest passing yards per game, the eighth-lowest passer rating, the fourth-fewest passing touchdowns (tied), and the 11th-best pressure rate. Wilson is a run-of-the-mill QB2 this week.
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