Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em: Dalton Schultz, Colston Loveland, Mason Taylor

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 dive into our start/sit lineup advice and outlook for a few of the top fantasy football waiver wire pickups of the week.

Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em Lineup Advice

Dalton Schultz (TE – HOU)

In Weeks 3-10, Dalton Schultz had an 18.5% target share, 54.4 receiving yards per game, 1.75 yards per route run and a 20.2% first-read share, per Fantasy Points Data. In those seven games, he has had four red-zone targets and three deep targets. In Week 11, even with a bad matchup against the Titans, Schultz commanded a 21.9% target share, producing six receptions and 51 receiving yards. While I’m not in love with Schultz’s matchups over the next three games, if he continues to see this type of weekly volume, he’ll continue to flirt with TE1 fantasy production.

Colston Loveland (TE – CHI)

In Week 10, with Cole Kmet back from injury, Colston Loveland had a 51.2% route share, but he only had an 11.1% target share with 55 receiving yards and an 8.7% first-read share, per Fantasy Points Data. Loveland followed that up with a 58.3% route share, 12.5% target share and 40 receiving yards against the Vikings in Week 11. Loveland’s role remains capped with Kmet around. Chicago has moved to more 12 personnel to get Loveland onto the field, but with these types of route shares, Loveland is only a fringe weekly streaming option at tight end. The reason to pick him up is mostly with the hope that he can push Kmet aside at some point and earn a full-time route share. If that were to happen, Loveland would vault into low-end TE1 status for the rest of the season.

Mason Taylor (TE – NYJ)

Since Week 4, Mason Taylor has had a 20.2% target share with 33.8 receiving yards per game, 1.22 yards per route run and a 22.5% first-read share. In those six games, Taylor has had seven red-zone targets, one score and three weekly finishes in TE1 range. Taylor’s role in the Jets’ offense is solid, but with issues of quarterback play and passing volume, he remains a dicey weekly streaming candidate.

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