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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Romeo Doubs‘ usage in Week 1 was similarly concerning, with only a 65.2% route per dropback rate. Yes, he led the team with 68 receiving yards, but he needed 4.53 yards per route run to post that receiving yardage line, which isn’t sustainable at all. Doubs had an 18.2% target share and 21.4% first-read share, but those marks aren’t good enough to consider embracing the Green Bay WRBC. Doubs isn’t startable and can be dropped from your rosters if you can find a better option from the waiver wire to fill out your benches.
If you drafted Matthew Golden, it’s too early to consider cutting him, BUT you can’t trust in your starting lineup for fantasy purposes until his usage changes in Green Bay. In Week 1, Golden was fifth on the team with a 43.5% route per dropback rate. He had only a 9.1% target share and 14.3% first-read share. Neither of those is remotely high enough to consider starting him in Week 2 (even in the deepest of leagues). Matt LaFleur remains an intelligent and talented head coach, but this stuff is infuriating. Sit Golden.
Tucker Kraft led the team with a 73.9% route per dropback rate while seeing an 18.2% target share. His end zone target that he converted into a touchdown saved an otherwise paltry stat line with two receptions and 16 receiving yards. Despite Kraft leading the way in routes, Green Bay still didn’t make it a point of emphasis to get the ball in his hands, with only a 7.1% first-read share. Kraft is a shaky option at tight end for Week 2 against a defense that last year allowed the 11th-fewest fantasy points per game and ranked 16th in yards per reception allowed to tight ends.
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