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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After the entire fantasy community finally gave up on Kyle Pitts, he is producing at a nice rate this season. He’s the TE12 in fantasy points per game, drawing an 18.8% target share with 47.5 receiving yards per game (1.49 yards per route run), and a 17.1% target share. He has three red zone targets and a deep target. Miami has allowed the seventh-most receiving yards per game, the tenth-highest yards per reception, and the 11th-most fantasy points per game to tight ends. Pitts should return TE1 value this week.
Since Week 4, Mason Taylor has stacked two strong games and two duds. Yes, quarterback play has played a large role in it and will be moving forward. Since Week 4, Taylor has had a 19.4% target share with 41.3 receiving yards per game (1.27 yards per route run), and a 20.6% first-read share. Taylor has two red zone targets in those four games. Taylor should have a nice bounce-back game in Week 8 if his quarterback play complies against a defense that has allowed the most receiving yards and fantasy points per game to tight ends.
With Dillon Gabriel under center, Fannin Jr. has had a 67.5% route share, an 18.4% target share, 43.3 receiving yards per game (1.65 yards per route run), and a 20% first-read share. In those three games, he has two red zone targets and weekly scoring finishes as the TE15, TE7, and TE23. Fannin Jr. is on the streaming radar this week. The Patriots have allowed the 11th-most receiving yards per game and the 12th-most fantasy points per game to tight ends.
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