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 experts Pat Fitzmaurice and Derek Brown advise. And you can find all of DBro’s fantasy football outlook in this week’s fantasy football primer as well as Fitz’s fantasy football rankings & tiers.
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Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em Lineup Advice
Rashee Rice (WR – KC)
If you’re a Rashee Rice investor, you didn’t wait six long weeks for his suspension to end just to leave him on the bench. The guess here is that Rice plays full snaps for the Chiefs this Sunday against the Lions. A lot of the best stuff in Andy Reid’s playbook has Rice as the beneficiary — wide receiver screens and other quick-hitting passes. Reid has probably been itching to call those plays. Hallelujah.
– Pat Fitzmaurice
Tetairoa McMillan (WR – CAR)
With the Panthers facing the Jets this week, Tetairoa McMillan is going to be shadowed by Sauce Gardner, who’s only allowed 10 catches and 170 receiving yards on throws into his coverage this season, according to PFF. Panthers QB Bryce Young is averaging 5.8 yards per pass attempt this season. McMillan profiles as a low-end WR2 with an unstable floor.
– Pat Fitzmaurice
Terry McLaurin (WR – WAS)
Terry McLaurin is practicing this week and seems to have a good chance of returning from a quad injury. If indeed he’s back, McLaurin will have an inviting matchup against a Dallas defense that has given up the most fantasy points per game to wide receivers. Dallas has yielded a league-high 12 touchdown catches to wide receivers, and McLaurin had a touchdown in both of his games against the Cowboys last season.
– Pat Fitzmaurice
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