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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Mason Taylor finally had the breakout game that I’ve been waiting for last week. If you’re tight-end needy, I hope you grabbed him off the waiver wire. Last week, he was the TE11 in fantasy, soaking up a 25.9% target share with 65 receiving yards (2.50 yards per route run) and a 33.3% first-read share. Taylor has one red zone target this season. He should see plenty of volume to flirt with TE1 value again this week and moving forward. Dallas allowed Dallas Goedert to secure all seven of his targets against them for 44 receiving yards, and Tucker Kraft snagged all five of his targets for 56 receiving yards. Taylor should post a solid stat line this week.
With the Dolphins losing Tyreek Hill for the year, Malik Washington will enter flex relevance when the matchup is right. Sadly, this week the matchup isn’t right. Washington has a 12.3% target share, 0.55 yards per route run (11.8 receiving yards per game), and an 11.5% first-read share. This week, he faces a Carolina pass defense that has utilized single high at the eighth-highest rate (58.1%). Against single high, Washington’s target share has stayed consistent with a 12.2% mark, but his first-read share has fallen to 7.4%. Carolina has allowed the 12th-fewest PPR points per target to slot receivers (Washington 55.3% slot).
With Malik Nabers sadly done for the season, Darius Slayton is set to assume a larger role in the Giants’ passing attack. Last year, when Nabers was out (Weeks 5-6), Slayton was fed volume with a 29.3% target share (11 targets per game), a 56.9% air-yard share, 2.49 yards per route run (89.5 receiving yards per game), and a 36.5% first-read share. In those two games, Slayton was the WR7 and WR31 in weekly scoring. Last week, in the second half of the game without Nabers, Slayton had a 20% target share, a 42.3% air-yard share, and a 22.2% first-read share. It was a small sample (ten passing targets), but encouraging. I’m guessing the Giants chuck the rock more this week against the Saints to get Jaxson Dart more comfortable, and they should have success doing so. Slayton should lead the way for the Giants’ passing attack this week against a secondary that has allowed the second-most PPR points per target and the seventh-most receiving yards per game to perimeter wide receivers.
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