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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Bo Nix is the QB19 in fantasy points per game as he’s run hot and cold. He has surpassed 20 fantasy points in two games while being held below 18 fantasy points in the other three contests. Nix has regressed big time from his monster rookie season. Among 40 qualifying quarterbacks, he ranks 30th in yards per attempt, 28th in passer rating, 29th in highly accurate throw rate, 32nd in catchable target rate, and he has the seventh-highest off-target rate. With all that said, this matchup lines up as another probable spike week for Nix because the Jets’ pass defense has been horrendous. New York has allowed the seventh-highest yards per attempt, the fourth-most passing touchdowns, the third-highest passer rating, and manufactured the fourth-lowest pressure rate.
Jordan Love is the QB15 in fantasy points per game with one QB1 weekly finish this season (QB6). Among 40 qualifying passers, Love ranks fourth in yards per attempt and passer rating, tenth in CPOE, and ninth in hero throw rate. Love could easily post QB1 numbers this week. Cincy’s pass defense remains dreadful, allowing the eighth-highest success rate per dropback, the fourth-most passing yards per game, the eighth-most yards per attempt, and the second-most passing touchdowns.
Travis Etienne is the RB14 in fantasy points per game, averaging 17.2 touches and 96.8 total yards. He is 17th in opportunity share, 18th in weighted opportunities, and seventh in red zone touches among backs. Among 47 qualifying backs, Etienne ranks 11th in explosive run rate and 14th in yards after contact per attempt. Etienne will have uphill sledding this week. Seattle’s run defense has remained stout, giving up the second-lowest explosive run rate and yards after contact per attempt and the third-fewest rushing yards per game.
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