Fantasy Football Start em, Sit em: Joshua Dobbs, Rico Dowdle, Zay Flowers (2025)

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 the Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR) advise.

Fantasy Football Start em, Sit em Lineup Advice

Joshua Dobbs (QB – SF) | QB20 for Week 18

Quarterbacks the ECR has higher than Dobbs:

Quarterbacks the ECR has lower than Dobbs:

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Rico Dowdle (RB – DAL) | RB10 for Week 18

Running Backs the ECR has higher than Dowdle:

Running Backs the ECR has lower than Dowdle:

Some of the most popular Who Should I Start? searches of the week:

Zay Flowers (WR – BAL) | WR13 for Week 18

Wide Receivers the ECR has higher than Flowers:

Wide Receivers the ECR has lower than Flowers:

Some of the most popular Who Should I Start? searches of the week:

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