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
Love is the QB7 in fantasy points per game, ranking sixth in passing touchdowns and eighth in passing yards per game. Among 42 qualifying quarterbacks, Love ranks seventh in yards per attempt and fantasy points per dropback and tenth in CPOE. Love has displayed the ability to overcome bad matchups this season, and he’ll be asked to do so again this week. Since Week 8, Detroit has allowed the fourth-fewest yards per attempt, the lowest passer rating, and the second-lowest success rate per dropback.
Jacobs is the RB9 in fantasy points per game, ranking 17th in snap share, eighth in weighted opportunities, and 11th in red zone touches. He has averaged 20.7 touches and 104 total yards per game. Among 57 qualifying backs, Jacobs ranks 12th in missed tackles forced per attempt and 13th in yards after contact per attempt. Jacobs will be running uphill all day against what remains a strong Detroit run defense. Since Week 8, Detroit has held backs to the eighth-fewest rushing yards per game, the 12th-highest stuff rate, and the 12th-fewest yards after contact per attempt.
Since Week 4, Kraft has had a 12.9% target share, 1.73 YPRR, and a 13.2% first-read share as the TE10 in fantasy. Overall, among tight ends, he ranks sixth in red zone targets, 11th in receiving yards, and third in yards after the catch. Don’t expect a big game from Kraft this week. Detroit has held tight ends to the fourth-fewest yards per reception and the fewest fantasy points per game.
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