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 experts Pat Fitzmaurice and Derek Brown advise. And you can find all of DBro’s fantasy football outlook in this week’s fantasy football primer as well as Fitz’s fantasy football rankings & tiers.
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Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em Lineup Advice
Jauan Jennings stated that he has multiple broken ribs and ankle issues right now. He was limited in practice all week and doesn’t carry an injury designation into this week. It’s tough to trust him in a fantasy lineup after his performance last week, his injury status, and the matchup this week. Last week, he had a 76.6% route share, but he had only a 7.7% target share, seven receiving yards, and an 11.5% first-read share. Those aren’t numbers that lead to fantasy success, especially against a secondary that has allowed the 11th-fewest PPR points per target and the seventh-fewest receiving yards per game to perimeter wide receivers. Sit Jennings.
Chuba Hubbard will be back this week (calf). He was limited all week in practice until Friday (full). He doesn’t carry an injury designation into this game. Hubbard will likely work in a committee with Rico Dowdle this week. I don’t think Hubbard just goes away despite what Rico Dowdle has done over the last two weeks. Hubbard hasn’t been particularly effective this season, though. Yes, he’s the RB18 in fantasy points per game, but he has lived on volume with a glaring lack of efficiency. Hubbard ranks 30th in yards per touch. With his 53 carries this season, Hubbard hasn’t managed any explosive runs, and he hasn’t broken a single tackle. Hubbard is a middling flex option this week. New York has allowed the tenth-most rushing yards per game, the sixth-highest yards after contact per attempt, and they rank 17th in missed tackle rate.
Elic Ayomanor is the WR58 in fantasy points per game with six deep targets and three red zone looks this season. He hasn’t finished with more than 44 receiving yards in a game since Week 2. He also hasn’t finished higher than WR56 in weekly scoring or seen a red zone target since Week 3. He has a 15.8% target share with 32.7 receiving yards per game (1.14 yards per route run) and a 19.4% first-read share. The Patriots have utilized single high with at least 54.2% of their defensive snaps in five of six games this season. Against single high, Ayomanor’s yards per route run has increased slightly to 1.48, and he has seen a 21% first-read share. He’s a low-end flex this week against a secondary allowing the fifth-most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers.
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