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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The Justin Fields experience has been a rollercoaster ride this season, with four QB1 weekly finishes and four games as the QB23 or lower. The rushing production has been there as Fields has averaged 7.5 rushing attempts and 39.5 rushing yards with three rushing scores. Among 42 qualifying passers, he ranks 29th in yards per attempt, 22nd in highly accurate throw rate, 32nd in catchable target rate, and 13th in fantasy points per dropback. Fields will need to get it down in the rushing department this week because I don’t see him having a productive day through the air. Since Week 6, New England has held passers to the eighth-lowest yards per attempt, the ninth-lowest CPOE, and the ninth-lowest success rate per dropback.
Breece Hall is the RB16 in fantasy points per game, averaging 17.7 touches and 98.2 total yards. Hall is still one of the best runners in the NFL. Among 64 qualifying backs, Hall is second in explosive run rate and 16th in missed tackle rate. This week, I don’t see him finding much running room, though. Since Week 6, New England has remained a top-shelf run defense, allowing the fewest rushing yards per game, the eighth-lowest yards after contact per attempt, and logging the 11th-best stuff rate. The Patriots should load up to stop the run and force Justin Fields to beat them.
Last week, Kyle Williams had only a 52.8% route share and 6.5% target share (two targets), but he turned his one reception into a 72-yard score. I don’t want to depend upon him breaking a big play with limited playing time in Week 11. Could it happen again? Sure. Could he get a bump in playing time this week? Sure, but I don’t want to depend upon the pure run out of either of those occurrences. If you picked Williams up off the waiver wire, sit him this week, and let’s see what his role is moving forward.
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