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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I’ll update Kyle Monangai‘s Week 8 outlook on Friday when we have more clarity about D’Andre Swift‘s availability. If Swift is out, Monangai could be the team’s bellcow this week. Last week, he played 46.3% of the snaps with three of ten running back red zone rushing attempts. He had 13 of 33 running back carries and a 29.6% route share (7.7% target share). Monangai has a solid 17% missed tackle rate with 2.20 yards after contact per attempt this season. This week, he faces a Baltimore run defense that has allowed the seventh-most rushing yards per game, the fourth-highest yards after contact per attempt, and the seventh-highest success rate to zone runs (Monangai 65.7% zone).
Michael Penix is the QB29 in fantasy points per game and hasn’t finished as a QB1 in weekly scoring since Week 4. Among 41 qualifying passers, he ranks 13th in passing yards per game, 20th in yards per attempt, 38th in catchable target rate, and he has the sixth-highest off-target rate. Penix has had an up-and-down season with more downs. If Bijan Robinson doesn’t rumble for 250 yards this week and score four touchdowns, Penix should have a nice outing against Miami’s clueless pass defense. The Dolphins have allowed the fourth-highest yards per attempt, the highest passer rating and success rate per dropback, and the 11th-highest CPOE.
Jordan Love has finished as a QB2 in every week this season, except for one. The Packers’ offense limits him weekly as they are seventh in red zone rushing rate and sixth in neutral rushing rate. Without rushing equity to help him out in fantasy, Love is just another mid-range QB2. Among 41 qualifying passers, he ranks fifth in yards per attempt, seventh in passer rating, 17th in fantasy points per dropback, and 16th in hero throw rate. He should post at least a solid stat line this week against a Steelers’ pass defense that has been woefully underperforming, giving up the most passing yards per game, the 11th-highest yards per attempt, and the 14th-highest success rate per dropback.
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