Fantasy Football Lineup Advice: Start or Sit DeVonta Smith? (Week 4)

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 for Week 4 of fantasy football and what the Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR) advise. Here is our Week 4 fantasy football start/sit advice for DeVonta Smith.

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Fantasy Football Start/Sit Advice: Start or Sit DeVonta Smith?

DeVonta Smith: Don’t consider Smith’s back-to-back week of production as a fluke. The former Crimson Tide product showed promise as a rookie and that has continued into Year 2. He owns a team-leading 29% target share and 36% air yards share – nearly identical marks to his teammate A.J. Brown. And interestingly enough, the most productive WRs that the Jags have faced this season have been those viewed as No. 2 in their respective offenses. Curtis Samuel, Ashton Dulin and Joshua Palmer were all the most productive WRs when they faced the Jaguars this season, despite none profiling or being used like their team’s No. 1. It’s partially related to the Jaguars cornerback Darious Williams manning the slot as the team’s worst defensive back. He is PFF’s sixth-worst graded cornerback. And that’s worth noting because Smith has the most targets from the slot in the Eagles offense, with seven coming the past two weeks. Start him as a fantasy WR2.