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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Hunter Henry is the TE3 in fantasy points per game after his colossal 29 PPR point performance last week. Overall, he has a 19.8% target share (70% route share), 1.81 yards per route run (55 receiving yards per game), and a 22.5% first-read share. Carolina has allowed the eighth-most fantasy points per game and the most receiving yards to tight ends.
Dalton Kincaid is the TE6 in fantasy points per game with two top-four weekly scoring finishes this season (TE4, TE4). He has two red zone targets already (two scores). The biggest issue with Kincaid’s production is that he’s doing it with just a 56.5% route share. He’s compensating for the lack of routes with a 25% target per route run rate, which is great, but I don’t know how sustainable that is. Overall, Kincaid has a 15.8% target share with 2.32 yards per route run (50.3 receiving yards per game) and a 19% first-read share. The Saints have allowed the 12th-highest yards per reception and the 13th-most fantasy points per game to tight ends.
Mark Andrews had a big bounce-back game last week. After that one monster performance, he is the TE12 in fantasy points per game. He has three red zone targets over the last two games. Andrews has a 69.9% route share, a 13.2% target share, 32.7 receiving yards per game (1.51 yards per route run), and an 18.5% first-read share. The Chiefs have the second-highest two-high rate in the NFL (71.2%). Against two high, Andrews has a 14.3% target share and a 21.1% first-read share. The Chiefs have faced the second-fewest targets to tight ends this season, but they have allowed the fourth-highest yards per reception to the position. Last season, they gave up the sixth-most fantasy points per game to tight ends.
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