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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The Cam Skattebo takeover has begun. In Week 2, he led the Giants’ backfield in snap share (50.8%), route share (40%), rushing attempts (11 of 16 running back rushing attempts), and red zone carries (all six). He finished with 13 touches and 59 total yards as the RB22 in fantasy. Skattebo’s per-rush metrics are ok, but they aren’t amazing past his 7.7% explosive run rate. He has a 15% missed tackle rate and 2.38 yards after contact per attempt. The sample size is small (13 carries), so we don’t need to rush to conclusions. Skattebo hopefully has an even higher snap share this week, and his volume can overcome a horrible matchup. Kansas City has allowed the fifth-lowest explosive run rate, the seventh-lowest missed tackle rate, and the fourth-fewest yards after contact per attempt.
In his first NFL game, Quinshon Judkins played 26.4% of the snaps, finishing with 13 touches and 71 total yards. He had 50% of the running back carries and a 17.6% route share. Jerome Ford took over as the preferred passing-down back. Judkins looked good with a 10% explosive run rate, a 50% missed tackle rate, and 5.60 yards after contact per attempt. Judkins is unfortunately a touchdown-dependent flex this week, though. The Packers have an elite run defense this season, holding rushers to zero explosive runs, the second-fewest rushing yards per game, and the fewest yards after contact per attempt.
Zach Charbonnet has been the snap leader for the Seattle backfield in both games, playing 55.4-57.7% of the snaps. He did lose out to Kenneth Walker in Week 2 with only two red zone rushing attempts to Walker’s three. Charbonnet has done very little with his volume to this point, failing to draw a single target while averaging 13.5 touches and 28.5 total yards. Among 35 qualifying backs, his missed tackle rate (7%) ranks 28th, and his yards after contact per attempt is 30th (1.81). If he keeps squandering these opportunities, he’ll lose more work to Walker as we move through the season. Charbonnet has a nice matchup in Week 3 to hopefully reverse this trend. The Saints are 16th in rushing yards per game allowed while also giving up the third-highest missed tackle rate and the 11th-most yards after contact per attempt.
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