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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In the last two games, Darius Slayton has had a 21.1% target share with a 34.7% air-yard share, 44 receiving yards per game, 1.63 yards per route run, and a 27.3% first-read share. In those two contests, he has had one red zone target and two deep targets. He had a horrible drop last week that would have pushed him close to 100 receiving yards and added a touchdown to his box score. Slayton has a very nice matchup this week that makes him a strong flex play again. Since Week 5, Chicago has allowed the seventh-most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers while ranking 15th in receiving yards per game allowed to the position.
Since Jaxson Dart took over, Robinson has been the WR39 in fantasy points per game with three top-36 weekly scoring finishes (WR9, WR21, WR28). During those six games, he has had a 24.9% target share with 52.8 receiving yards per game, 1.59 yards per route run, and a 26.5% first-read share. In those six games, Robinson has also seen four red zone targets and five downfield targets. Robinson should eat this week against a secondary that, since Week 5, has allowed the third-most PPR points per target and receiving yards per game to slot receivers.
Last week, Emari Demercado led the way on the ground for Arizona with 14 of 23 running back rushing attempts. He had two of the five running back red zone rushing attempts while playing 40% of the snaps with an 18.9% route share (3.2% target share). Demercado finished with 15 touches and 78 total yards. He has a 13.6% explosive run rate but only a 9% missed tackle rate and 2.09 yards after contact per attempt. This isn’t the week to look to his backfield for a flex play. Since Week 5, Seattle has remained an elite run defense, giving up the fourth-fewest rushing yards per game, the second-lowest explosive run rate, the fifth-lowest missed tackle rate, and the third-lowest yards after contact per attempt. Sit Demercado.
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