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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Tua Tagovailoa is the QB27 in fantasy points per game and has two QB1 outings this season (QB9, QB8). It has been a tough season for Tagovailoa, but he is coming off arguably his best game of the season. Among 45 qualifying passers, he ranks 30th in yards per attempt, 29th in passing yards per game, 19th in catchable target rate, and 25th in fantasy points per dropback. Tagovailoa could easily have another strong game this week against a Baltimore secondary that, since Week 4, has allowed the seventh-most yards per attempt, the fourth-highest CPOE and passer rating, and the third-highest success rate per dropback. Another huge factor for Tagovailoa is that since Week 4, Baltimore has the second-lowest pressure rate, so Tagovailoa should see plenty of clean pockets this week.
Since Week 5, Jaylen Waddle has been the WR16 in fantasy points per game with three red zone targets and five deep targets. Across the last four games, Waddle has had a 21.3% target share, 79.8 receiving yards per game (3.16 yards per route run), and a 28.7% first-read share. This week, he’ll face a Baltimore secondary that has the fourth-highest single high rate (61.4%). Since Week 5, against single high, Waddle has had a 25.7% target share with 3.59 yards per route run and a 36.7% first-read share. Waddle should smash against a secondary that, since Week 4, has allowed the seventh-most receiving yards per game and the ninth-most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers.
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