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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Full disclosure: I have no idea what the Chargers’ RB situation is going to look like when they face the Dolphins this week. With Omarion Hampton IR, the Chargers might roll out an unwieldy committee at running back. Hassan Haskins is in the mix. Kimani Vidal is in the mix. The Chargers have also brought in Nyheim Hines and Amar Johnson. I do think Haskins is the safest bet to offer at least a small degree of fantasy value. He’s the only Chargers running back left who was on the opening-day roster. Haskins had 1,327 rushing yards and 20 TD runs in his final college season at Michigan while playing for Jim Harbaugh. Haskins is a plodder without much pass-catching potential, but he’ll almost certainly be the Chargers’ goal-line back. And if Haskins gets a heavy workload against a weak Miami run defense, he could be in for a pretty good day.
In the two games since his return from a shoulder injury, Xavier Worthy had had 11-125-0 receiving on 17 targets and 3-47-0 rushing. This week, Worthy faces the Lions, who will be without injured starting CBs Terrion Arnold and D.J. Reed. The return of Rashee Rice from suspension next week will complicate Worthy’s fantasy outlook, but there are no complications this week. Start Worthy with confidence.
In his first game since Tyreek Hill‘s season-ending knee injury, Jaylen Waddle caught six passes for 110 yards and a touchdown on nine targets. The target outlook is obviously better for Waddle with Hill out, but Waddles’s matchup against the Chargers this week isn’t especially friendly. The Chargers have allowed the fifth-fewest fantasy points to wide receivers. It’s also concerning that Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa is dealing with a thumb injury on his throwing hand.
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