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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: Week 13
Hunt is the RB16 in fantasy points per game, ranking 21st in snap share, seventh in opportunity share, and sixth in red zone touches. He has averaged 21.5 touches and 89 total yards this season. Hunt should retain the lion’s share of the workload this week, even with Isiah Pacheco returning. I expect we’ll see Pacheco get a handful of touches and snaps this week, as the team will likely ease him back in. This hurts Hunt’s ceiling, but his floor for Week 13 is still high. Among 54 qualifying backs, he ranks 50th in missed tackles forced per attempt and 46th in yards after contact per attempt. The volume has been integral to Hunt’s fantasy value, so I can’t pretend that his value doesn’t take somewhat of a hit this week and moving forward, especially with the Raiders’ run defense improving. Since Week 7, Las Vegas has allowed the eighth-fewest rushing yards per game, the eighth-lowest explosive run rate, and the tenth-lowest yards after contact per attempt.
Meyers is the WR20 in fantasy points per game and has been a volume monster without Davante Adams on the team. Since Week 4, he has had a 24.5% target share, a 37% air-yard share, 1.89 YPRR, and a 32.9% first-read share. He averaged 71.2 receiving yards per game during that span, but sadly, he had only seen four red zone targets and scored one receiving touchdown. The last time Meyers faced Kansas City, he finished as the WR20 for the week with six receptions, 52 receiving yards, and a score. The Chiefs have been more vulnerable to perimeter wide receivers recently. Since Week 7, they have allowed the 13th-highest PPR points per target to the position. Meyers is a strong play again this week.
Since the Chiefs acquired DeAndre Hopkins, Worthy’s route share has never dipped below 64.3%. In his five games with Hopkins, Worthy has played the field stretching role for two games, but in three games his role has been fairly consistent (Weeks 8, 11, & 12). In those games, Worthy has had a 10.3 aDOT, a 17.6% target share, 1.71 YPRR, and a 24.6% first-read share. In those games, (one of which was against Las Vegas), Worthy has seen three red zone targets. Worthy is just a middling flex play this week against a secondary that, since Week 7, has allowed the 17th-highest PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers.
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