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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Tracy Jr. has run away with the Giants’ starting job. Since Week 5, he has averaged 18 touches and 97.6 total yards while playing 57-84% of the snaps weekly. Among 47 qualifying backs, he ranks 21st in missed tackles forced per attempt and 18th in explosive run rate. The Panthers have been gutted by running backs allowing the most rushing yards per game, the sixth-highest yards before contact per attempt, and the fifth-highest success rate to gap runs (Tracy 56.2% gap).
Darnold is having the type of season that should earn him a nice contract this offseason from another NFL team. He is the QB11 in fantasy points per game, ranking eighth in fantasy points per dropback, ninth in hero throw rate, first in CPOE, and fifth in yards per attempt. Darnold should shred the Jaguars suspect secondary in Week 10. Jacksonville has allowed the second-most passing yards, the most passing touchdowns, the highest passer rating, and the fourth-highest CPOE to quarterbacks.
Last week, Johnston had another huge game, logging his third contest with at least 44 receiving yards and a score. Johnston has five deep targets in his six games played and two red zone targets. Since Week 7, Tennessee has the eighth-highest rate of single high (60%). Against single high, Johnston has had a 19.1% target share, a 29.4% air-yard share, 1.92 YPRR, and a 25.8% first-read share. All of these numbers are awesome. Johnston still has a tough road to walk this week against a secondary that, since Week 5, has allowed the 11th-fewest receiving yards per game and the 12th-fewest fantasy points per game to perimeter wide receivers.
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