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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Caleb Williams continues his best 2024 Kyler Murray approach this season with five games inside the top ten fantasy quarterbacks in weekly scoring and five games as the QB20 or lower. Last week, he was the QB22 in fantasy with only 10.3 fantasy points against the Vikings. The Steelers offer a decent matchup for Williams to rebound this week. Since Week 7, they have allowed the second-most passing yards per game, the eighth-most passing touchdowns (tied), and ranked 18th in success rate per dropback. Also, during this stretch, they have had the fourth-lowest pressure rate and only logged two sacks.
Dak Prescott has been having a wonderful season as the QB10 in fantasy points per game. Among 43 qualifying passers, Prescott ranks fourth in passing yards per game, second in passing touchdowns, ninth in passer rating, fifth in highly accurate throw rate, and first in catchable target rate. The last time these two teams met, Prescott played extremely well (Week 1), but he had only 188 passing yards, 5.5 yards per attempt, zero passing touchdowns, and a QB29 finish to show for it. I don’t project Prescott to have that poor of a fantasy day this week, but it won’t be easy. Since Week 7, Philly has fielded an elite pass defense, allowing the 11th-fewest yards per attempt, the third-lowest passer rating, the second-fewest passing touchdowns, and the tenth-lowest CPOE. During that span, they also have the fifth-best pressure rate (43%).
Well, it finally happened. Joe Flacco had a “Joe Flacco” type of game last week as the QB21 in fantasy points per game. Still, after that performance, since Week 6, Flacco has been the QB3 in fantasy points per game. Since Week 6, among 36 qualifying passers, Flacco still ranks second in passing yards per game, third in passing touchdowns, sixth in highly accurate throw rate, and 14th in catchable target rate. Flacco faces a tough test this week against a resurgent Pats pass defense. Since Week 7, New England has allowed the fourth-fewest yards per attempt, the 11th-fewest passing yards per game, the ninth-lowest CPOE, and the seventh-lowest success rate per dropback. Flacco should still see enough volume to flirt with QB1 production if he can overcome the matchup.
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