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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Remove Tre Tucker‘s monster Week 3 game, and he has a 15.3% target share with 42.2 receiving yards per game (1.35 yards per route run) and a 22% first-read share. In his five other games this season, he has three red zone targets and three top-36 weekly finishes (WR24, WR24, WR36). This isn’t the week to flex Tucker. Kansas City has allowed the 12th-fewest PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers.
Sterling Shepard has two red zone targets and two top-36 finishes in weekly scoring this season (WR33, WR32). Shepard has a 13.8% target share, 1.64 yards per route run (40.3 receiving yards per game), and an 11.5% first-read share. Last week, in the second half with Emeka Egbuka out, Shepard’s role didn’t really change as he still was a 50/50 slot and perimeter player while earning a 12.5% target share. He’s a flex viable option this week, though, as the Lions have allowed the fourth-most fantasy points per game and the third-highest yards per reception to wide receivers.
Last week, in the second half, Johnson had a 100% route share, a 25% target share (two targets), a 57.1% air-yard share, and a 40% first-read share. Even if Mike Evans plays this week, I expect Johnson to be a full-time starter in three-wide receiver sets with Chris Godwin and Emeka Egbuka likely out. Overall, Johnson has a 17% target per route run rate, 1.87 yards per route run, and ten first-read targets with his 60 routes run this season. He’s a flex viable option this week as the Lions have allowed the fourth-most fantasy points per game and the third-highest yards per reception to wide receivers.
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