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 Pat Fitzmaurice advises. And you can find all of Fitz’s fantasy football outlook in this week’s fantasy football rankings & tiers.
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Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em Lineup Advice
Over his last three games, Daniel Jones has scored 15.8, 12.4 and 16.7 fantasy points. He’s QB27 in fantasy points per game over the last three weeks. (In fairness, the Colts had a 21-point win and a 34-point win over that stretch, and Jones threw fewer than 30 passes in each of those games.) Jones had three touchdown runs in his first two games. He has none over his last three games. I don’t dislike Jones’ Week 6 outlook. He’s playing at home, and the Arizona secondary is pretty banged up. I’m ranking Jones as a low-end QB1.
Sam Darnold has been excellent this year. He’s averaging a league-best 9.3 yards per pass attempt and has nine TD passes. But Darnold is only QB14 in fantasy scoring because the Seahawks have been so run-heavy. Darnold is averaging 26.8 pass attempts per game, and the Seahawks are running the ball on 50% of its offensive snaps, making the Seahawks the run-heaviest team in the league. Consider Darnold a midrange QB2 this week in a road game against the Jaguars.
I’m starting to wonder if Bryce Young is destined to be a backup quarterback. He’s averaging just 5.5 yards per pass attempt this season – an awful number. In fairness, Tetairoa McMillan has been Young’s only credible pass catcher. Slot receiver Jalen Coker is on the verge or returning from an early-season IR stint, which will help. But I can’t rank Young as anything more than a midrange QB2 even in an ultra-favorable matchup against a Dallas defense that’s giving up a league-high 27.3 fantasy points per game to quarterbacks.
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