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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Since Week 4, Kenneth Walker has been the RB42 in fantasy points per game. The lack of a red zone role and touchdowns is crushing him. Since Week 4, he has averaged 14.8 touches and 74.8 total yards with a 43.1% snap rate, a 28.1% route share, and a 3.4% target share. He has only eight of 23 red zone running back rushing attempts in that span and zero touchdowns. Walker is fourth in explosive run rate and seventh in missed tackle rate, and it hasn’t mattered because Seattle has utilized him as the back in between the 20s. Walker will have to rip a long run to get in the end zone, but that could happen this week. Since Week 4, Washington has allowed the seventh-most rushing yards per game, the 11th-highest explosive run rate, the eighth-highest success rate, and the third-highest yards after contact per attempt.
Since Week 4, Zach Charbonnet has been the RB25 in fantasy points per game, which has been driven by four touchdowns in that span. During that stretch, he has averaged 12.8 touches and 46 total yards with 15 of 23 red zone running back rushing attempts. Since Week 4, he has had a 53.1% snap rate, a 43% route share, and a 5.9% target share. Charbonnet has a 14% missed tackle rate and 2.15 yards after contact per attempt. He is a borderline RB2 and, at the very least, a strong flex play with his red zone role. Since Week 4, Washington has allowed the seventh-most rushing yards per game, the 11th-highest explosive run rate, the eighth-highest success rate, and the third-highest yards after contact per attempt.
Houston can’t decide who they want to be their lead back. Over the last three games, Woody Marks has played anywhere from 38.6-63.2% of the snaps while averaging 11.6 touches and 60.7 total yards. Marks hasn’t been anything special as a rusher with a 5% missed tackle rate and 2.18 yards after contact per attempt. He’s likely getting stonewalled this week. Since Week 4, Denver has allowed the fourth-fewest rushing yards per game, the sixth-lowest explosive run rate, and the third-lowest yards before contact per attempt. He could save his fantasy day through the air this week, though. Denver has allowed the 12th-most receiving yards per game and the highest yards per reception to running backs. Since Week 4, Marks has had a 35% route share, a 10.2% target share, 29.8 receiving yards per game, and 2.09 yards per route run. He’s a stronger flex play in PPR formats.
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