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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Since his return, Zach Charbonnet has been the RB29 in fantasy points per game, averaging 12 touches and 46 total yards. He’s been productive as the team’s goal line back with scores in both games. Since Week 4, he has seven red zone carries to Kenneth Walker’s four. Charbonnet has had 21 of the 50 running back carries, a 50.8% snap share, a 43.8% route share, and a 6.7% target share. He hasn’t been an efficient player, with only an 8% missed tackle rate and 1.94 yards after contact per attempt. Charbonnet remains a touchdown-dependent flex this week with a bad matchup. Jacksonville has allowed the 11th-fewest rushing yards per game, the fourth-lowest missed tackle rate, and the third-fewest yards after contact per attempt.
Kareem Hunt has been and continues to be a touchdown-dependent flex play. He is averaging only 9.8 touches and 41.6 total yards, but he has been the Chiefs’ preferred red zone back. Hunt has ten red zone rushing attempts while Isiah Pacheco has only four. Hunt has been an inefficient runner with only a 9% missed tackle rate and 2.23 yards after contact per attempt. He’ll have to live off his touchdown equity again this week. The Lions have allowed the seventh-lowest explosive run rate and rushing yards per game, and the sixth-lowest missed tackle rate and yards after contact per attempt. If Hunt doesn’t score this week, you’ll likely be sad that you played him.
Isiah Pacheco has been barely playable this season as the RB46 in fantasy points per game. He has averaged only 9.6 touches per game with 41.8 total yards. Kareem Hunt has dwarfed him in red zone usage with ten carries inside the 20-yard line to Pacheco’s four. It’s not like Pacheco has run well, either, with only a 13% missed tackle rate and 2.44 yards after contact per attempt. Detroit will shut him down again this week. The Lions have allowed the seventh-lowest explosive run rate and rushing yards per game, and the sixth-lowest missed tackle rate and yards after contact per attempt.
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