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 9 of fantasy football and what the Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR) advise.
*Based on Half-PPR Rankings as of Wednesday
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Miles Sanders (RB – PHI): RB14 for Week 9
Runningbacks the ECR has ranked higher than Sanders:
Runningbacks the ECR has ranked lower than Sanders:
Some of the most popular Who Should I Start? searches of the week:
- Miles Sanders or Rhamondre Stevenson: 89% of experts chose Stevenson
- Miles Sanders or D’Andre Swift: 83% of experts chose Sanders
- Miles Sanders or Dameon Pierce: 56% of experts chose Pierce
- Miles Sanders or D’Onta Foreman: 89% of experts chose Sanders
DeVonta Smith (WR – PHI): WR22 for Week 9
Wide receivers the ECR has ranked higher than Smith:
Wide receivers the ECR has ranked lower than Smith:
Some of the most popular Who Should I Start? searches of the week:
- DeVonta Smith 0r Tyler Boyd: 89% of experts chose Boyd
- DeVonta Smith or Christian Kirk: 67% of experts chose Smith
- DeVonta Smith or Keenan Allen: 67% of experts chose Allen
- DeVonta Smith 0r JuJu Smith-Schuster: 67% of experts chose Smith
Brandin Cooks (WR – HOU): WR27 for Week 9
Wide receivers the ECR has ranked higher than Cooks:
Wide receivers the ECR has ranked lower than Cooks:
Some of the most popular Who Should I Start? searches of the week:
- Brandin Cooks or JuJu Smith-Schuster: 83% of experts chose Smith-Schuster
- Brandin Cooks or Romeo Doubs: 50% of experts chose Cooks
- Brandin Cooks or Jakobi Meyers: 94% of experts chose Meyers
- Brandin Cooks or Curtis Samuel: 72% of experts chose Cooks
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If you want to dive deeper into fantasy football, check out our award-winning slate of Fantasy Football Tools as you navigate your season. From our Start/Sit Assistant – which provides your optimal lineup based on accurate consensus projections – to our Waiver Wire Assistant, which allows you to quickly see which available players will improve your team and how much – we’ve got you covered this fantasy football season.
