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 assuming the starting job for New York, Dart has been the QB5 in fantasy points per game. Among 41 qualifying passers, he ranks 27th in yards per attempt, 30th in highly accurate throw rate, 15th in catchable target rate, tenth in hero throw rate, and fourth in fantasy points per dropback. He has averaged 8.2 rushing attempts and 41.8 rushing yards with five rushing scores in his six starts. This week should be another nice game for Dart. Since Week 5, the Bears have allowed the third-highest yards per attempt, the fifth-most passing yards per game, the highest CPOE, and the sixth-highest success rate per dropback. Smash Dart. Smash.
Caleb Williams is pulling his best Kyler Murray from yesteryear in 2025. Williams has been quite volatile in fantasy with four top-ten finishes in weekly fantasy scoring while also stacking four weeks as the QB20 or lower. He took advantage of three amazing matchups against Dallas, Washington, and Cincinnati, which he should have. The bottom has fallen out when he has been tested against better opponents. Even when we zoom into his play since Week 4, Williams has still had maddening accuracy issues, ranking 28th in highly accurate throw rate and 30th in catchable target rate. After saying all of that, he should still have a nice fantasy outing this week against a weak Giants’ pass defense. Since Week 5, New York has allowed the 12th-most passing yards per game, the 13th-highest CPOE, the sixth-highest passer rating, and the fifth-most passing touchdowns (tied).
In J.J. McCarthy‘s two healthy starts this season, he has finished as the QB11 and QB13 in weekly fantasy scoring. In those two games, he had 6.36 yards per attempt, a 10.1% CPOE, a 75.6% catchable target rate, an 8.9% hero throw rate, and 0.78 fantasy points per dropback. Overall, this season, among 41 qualifying passers, those numbers would rank 30th, fifth, 22nd, first, and second. Not too shabby, Mr. McCarthy. Not too shabby. McCarthy still has plenty to improve upon, but those numbers are quite encouraging. He should flirt with QB1 numbers again this week. Since Week 5, Baltimore has allowed the 11th-most passing yards per game, the fourth-highest success rate per dropback, the 11th-highest CPOE, and ranked 15th in yards per attempt.
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