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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Matthew Stafford went legend mode last week as the QB2 in fantasy, which was his first QB1 outing of the season. Stafford is the QB17 in fantasy points per game. Among 38 qualifying quarterbacks, Stafford is crushing it, ranking fifth in yards per attempt, fourth in passing yards per game, third in passing touchdowns, and first in hero throw rate. Stafford should post strong QB2 numbers this week with the upside to sneak into the top 12 fantasy quarterbacks. The 49ers have allowed the 12th-highest passer rating while ranking 18th in CPOE and 16th in success rate per dropback.
Kendrick Bourne will assume a starting spot this week for the depleted 49ers. He has a 65.6% route share, an 11% target share, 1.06 yards per route run (29 receiving yards per game), and a 13.2% first-read share. In Week 3, with Jauan Jennings out, Bourne had a 14.6% target share, 38 receiving yards (1.23 yards per route run), and a 20% first-read share (second on the team). Since Week 3, the Rams have utilized two high at the seventh-highest rate (56.9%). Since Week 2, against two high, Bourne leads the team with a 17% target per route run rate and ranks second in first-read share (14%). Bourne is a deep-league or desperation flex play only. The Rams have allowed the 13th-highest PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers.
Since Week 2, Jake Tonges has been the 49ers’ starting tight end, seeing a 65.8% route share with an 11% target share with 36.7 receiving yards per game (1.36 yards per route run) and an 11.8% first-read share. He has two red zone targets, but none since Week 1. He has scored twice this season and has one TE1 finish (last week, TE7). Tonges is a low-end streaming option at tight end this week. The Rams have allowed the 14th-most fantasy points per game and the tenth-most yards per reception to tight ends.
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