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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Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em Lineup Advice
Kayshon Boutte has been crushing as the WR35 in fantasy points per game. He has four top-24 weekly wide receiver finishes this season. He has been a top-24 wide receiver in each of the last three games (WR4, WR24, WR12). Boutte has a 12.7% target share, a 28.3% air-yard share, 2.10 yards per route run, and a 15.2% first-read share. He leads the team with nine deep targets while having only one red zone target. This week, he faces an Atlanta secondary that has utilized single high at the highest rate in the NFL (72%). Against single high, Boutte has seen his target share increase to 16.2% with 2.10 yards per route run and a 16.8% first-read share. He should continue the hot streak this week. Since Week 4, Atlanta has allowed the seventh-most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers.
Last week, Chimere Dike was a full-time player with an 86% route share, a 21.1% target share, 93 receiving yards (2.51 yards per route run), and a 23.8% first-read share (second on the team). Across the last two games, he has one red zone target and two deep targets. Since Week 6, Los Angeles has utilized two high at the third highest rate (66.7%). Since Week 7, against two high, Dike has a 21% target per route run rate (second on the team) and 2.18 yards per route run. Strong numbers for the rookie. The Bolts have allowed the tenth-most PPR points per target to slot receivers this season. Dike is a solid flex play for Week 9.
Kimani Vidal truthers UNITE! Vindication is ours. Since Week 6, Kimani Vidal has been the RB10 in fantasy points per game, averaging 19.4 touches and 100 total yards. Among 60 qualifying backs, he ranks third in explosive run rate and 14th in yards after contact per attempt. He shouldn’t have much issue with ripping apart the Titans’ run defense this week. Since Week 4, Tennessee has allowed the ninth-most rushing yards per game, the 13th-highest explosive run rate, and the fourth-highest yards before contact per attempt.
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