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
Zonovan Knight should lead the backfield this week, especially on early downs. In his last two games, he has averaged 47.7% of the snaps with 14.5 touches and 59 total yards. Knight has not been efficient with his work, with zero explosive runs, a 7% missed tackle rate, and only 1.31 yards after contact per attempt. That might not matter in Week 9. That’s how bad the Dallas run defense has been. The best trick the Green Bay Packers ever pulled was convincing Jerry Jones that Kenny Clark would solve their run defense problems. Dallas has allowed the fourth-most rushing yards per game, the second-highest explosive run rate, the ninth-highest yards after contact per attempt, and they have the lowest stuff rate. Knight should flirt with low-end RB2 production this week with a strong flex floor.
Romeo Doubs is the WR30 in fantasy points per game, ranking second on the team in red zone targets and leading the way with eight deep targets. Doubs has a 19.7% target share, a 39.3% air-yard share, 50 receiving yards per game (1.88 yards per route run), and a 24.5% first-read share. Doubs is a strong flex play again this week against a secondary that, since Week 4, has allowed the third-most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers.
Last week, Christian Watson surprised me with a 59.5% route share, finishing with 85 receiving yards (18.3 aDOT). He had a 10.8% target share, 3.86 yards per route run, and a 17.4% first-read share (third on the team). If he’s going to operate as the team’s field stretcher, this isn’t a great matchup for him. Only one of his four targets was downfield, though, so that’s not the only thing he was asked to do last week. Watson is a risky, deep league flex this week against a secondary that, since Week 4, has allowed the third-most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers.
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