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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Cam Skattebo has been as advertised. He’s been a volume-gobbling, screaming backflip waiting to happen. Since Week 2, Skattebo has averaged 19.3 touches and 93.6 total yards as the RB12 in fantasy points per game. Among 46 qualifying backs, Skattego ranks 11th in missed tackles forced per attempt and 12th in yards after contact per attempt. He should find success on the ground this week against Philly. Their run defense has yielded the 12th-most rushing yards per game, the ninth-most yards before contact per attempt, and the 12th-highest yards after contact per attempt and yards per carry to zone runs (Skattebo 74.6% zone).
Over the last two weeks with Jaxson Dart under center, Robinson has tied for the team lead with a 19.7% target share while averaging 22 receiving yards (0.65 yards per route run) with a 21.4% first-read share. He does have two red zone targets in that span. This isn’t the matchup to consider going back to Robinson as a flex option. Philly has allowed the fewest PPR points per target and the second-fewest receiving yards per game to slot receivers.
Dallas Goedert is the TE5 in fantasy points per game, who has run hotter than the sun with four touchdowns in his last three games. He has done that with only two red zone targets in that span. Goedert has a 17.9% target share while averaging 33.3 receiving yards per game (1.15 yards per route run) and a 19.2% first-read share. The Giants have the sixth-highest single high rate (58.3%). Against single high, his target share has remained steady at 17.2% and had a 19.5% first-read share, but his per-route efficiency has tumbled with only 0.59 yards per route run. This isn’t a week to expect Goedert to smash. The Giants have allowed the seventh-fewest receiving yards and the eighth-fewest fantasy points per game to tight ends.
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