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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I’m not putting a ton of stock into Xavier Legette‘s performance last week. We have a much longer track record of Legette being a league-average wide receiver than one that will post nine receptions and 92 receiving yards. Legette has a 15.8% target share, 28.4 receiving yards per game (0.90 yards per route run), and a 22.4% first-read share. He’s tied for the team lead in red zone targets while also seeing four deep targets. This week, he faces a Bills’ secondary that has utilized two high at the sixth-highest rate (56.7%). Against two high, Legette has seen his target share remain stable at 15.6% with 0.79 yards per route run and a 21.4% first-read share. Legette is a low-end flex option this week with a nice matchup.
Atlanta is favored this week, which is huge for Allgeier’s outlook. I keep bringing it up weekly, but the trend has held. In Atlanta’s three wins this season, Allgeier has averaged 14.6 touches and 56.3 total yards with three scores. In their three losses, he hasn’t managed a touchdown or more than 24 total yards in any contest. This week could be another nice opportunity to flex Allgeier. Miami has allowed the most rushing yards per game, the highest explosive run rate, and the highest yards after contact per attempt.
Yes, last week Brashard Smith finished with 19 touches and 81 total yards as the RB14 for the week, but much of that production was in garbage time. Smith has juice, but it hasn’t translated into efficiency in the early down department, yet. He has only a 5% missed tackle rate and 1.45 yards after contact per attempt, but that’s with only 22 carries. As a receiving option, he has a 7.3% target share, a 51% target per route run rate, 3.49 yards per route run, and 0.143 first downs per route run. Last week, in the first half, Smith played 26.2% of the snaps with a 27.6% route share and a 16.7% target share (four targets). Smith is a viable flex this week in PPR formats. Washington has allowed the fifth-most receiving yards and the third-highest yards per reception to running backs.
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