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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Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em Lineup Advice
Mason Taylor has 14 catches and 19 targets over the last two weeks. He has become the No. 2 pass-catching option in the Jets’ offense behind Garrett Wilson. The issue is that the targets are coming from Justin Fields. … Taylor is averaging 6.3 yards per target and 8.8 yards per catch. He also has a tough matchup this week against a Denver defense that has allowed the eighth-fewest fantasy points to TEs. Despite the recent target surge for Taylor, consider him a high-end TE2 this week.
David Njoku had his best game of the season last week in rookie QB Dillon Gabriel‘s first start for the Browns, with 6-67-1 on nine targets. Gabriel targeted his tight ends 13 times while targeting his wide receivers only 10 times. It’s hard to tell if the increased Njoku usage sticks, but it’s encouraging that Gabriel saw Njoku as a security blanket. I’m ranking Njoku as a low-end TE1.
Zach Ertz was targeted only once and was held without a catch last week in the Commanders’ 27-10 win over the Chargers. It was a curiously quiet game for Ertz, who had clicked so well with Daniels down the stretch last season. I still think Ertz is a decent TE option this week with Commanders WR Terry McLaurin still not ready to return from a quad injury. Admittedly, though, it’s concerning that Ertz has had snap shares under 60% in two of his last three games.
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