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
Last week, against a pass funnel defense, Jordan Love had only 25 passing attempts. Yes, I know Love was pressured on 51.6% of his dropbacks last week, so that did obviously play a part in the game plan. Hopefully, this is the week we finally see Green Bay lean on its passing game a tad more. Love could use the “get right” game. He’s the QB19 in fantasy points per game. While he has the sixth-best yards per attempt and passer rating, he has struggled in accuracy metrics, ranking 20th in CPOE, 35th in highly accurate throw rate, and 24th in catchable target rate. Dallas has allowed the most passing yards per game and the highest CPOE while also giving up the second-most passing touchdowns and the highest yards per attempt. Dallas is only 15th in pressure rate, so Love should have more time in the pocket this week.
Daniel Jones continues to defy preseason expectations as the QB4 in fantasy points per game. He is fourth in yards per attempt, sixth in passer rating, tenth in catchable target rate, and 11th in hero throw rate. In addition to his passing stats, he has kicked in 5.7 rushing attempts and 18.3 rushing yards per game (three scores) on the ground. Jones is still in starting consideration this week despite a tough defensive matchup. The Rams have allowed the tenth-fewest passing yards per game, the eighth-lowest CPOE, and the tenth-lowest success rate per dropback. Jalen Hurts displayed last week that this pass defense isn’t without its faults, though. Jones has the skill players around him to succeed.
Bo Nix hasn’t gotten off to the type of start many hoped for as the QB26 in fantasy points per game. He has one QB1 performance (Week 2, QB11). Among 37 qualifying quarterbacks, he ranks 31st in yards per attempt, 34th in CPOE, and 36th in catchable target rate. It hasn’t been good. This matchup with Cincy is a cool tall boy of bounceback he needs to shotgun. Cincy has allowed the eighth-most passing yards per game, the fifth-most passing touchdowns, the 13th-highest CPOE, and the 11th-highest success rate per dropback.
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