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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With Dillon Gabriel under center, Fannin Jr. has been the TE11 in fantasy points per game with a 19.6% target share, 48 receiving yards per game, 1.86 yards per route run, and a 20.5% first-read share. He has three red zone targets in his last four games. Across the last five weeks, the Jets have allowed the 12th-most schedule-adjusted fantasy points per game to tight ends. Fannin will flirt with TE1 production again this week.
Since Week 4, Theo Johnson has been the TE13 in fantasy points per game with an 18.6% target share, 31.7 receiving yards per game, 1.17 yards per route run, and a 21.2% first-read share. Touchdowns have helped Johnson immensely as he has six red zone targets in those six games and five scores. Johnson should have another strong game this week against a defense that, overall, has allowed the 12th-most receiving yards per game to the position and the fifth-most schedule-adjusted fantasy points per game over the last five weeks.
Juwan Johnson is the TE15 in fantasy points per game with five TE1 outings this season in weekly scoring. In his nine games played, he has had five red zone targets and two deep targets. Johnson has a 17.5% target share, 44.3 receiving yards per game, 1.45 yards per route run, and a 21.1% first-read share. He’ll likely see a bump in target share with Rashid Shaheed gone. Johnson is a solid streaming tight end option this week, assuming he can get close to league-average quarterback play from Tyler Shough. Carolina has allowed the seventh-most receiving yards per game, the fourth-highest yards per reception, and the ninth-most fantasy points per game to tight ends.
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