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 his first game as the Packers’ starting tight end this season, Musgrave had a 76.2% route share with an 8.3% target share, 23 receiving yards, and 0.72 yards per route run. Musgrave had a 3.3 aDOT and a 15.8% first-read share. This isn’t the matchup to look to stream Musgrave against. The Giants have allowed the 12th-fewest receiving yards per game, the seventh-fewest yards per reception, and the tenth-fewest fantasy points per game to tight ends.
Dalton Schultz has been on a heater with TE7 and TE4 weekly scoring finishes in the last two games. Since Week 3, Schultz has had an 18.5% target share, 54.4 receiving yards per game, 1.75 yards per route run, and a 20.2% first-read share. In those seven games, he has had four red zone targets and three deep targets. This isn’t the week to chase points, though. Schultz has a rough matchup this week. Tennessee has allowed the eighth-fewest schedule-adjusted fantasy points per game, the tenth-fewest receiving yards per game, and the eighth-lowest yards per reception.
Kyle Pitts is the TE15 in fantasy points per game with four TE1 outings this season. Pitts has a 19.8% target share with 46.7 receiving yards per game, 1.49 yards per route run, and a 17.8% first-read share. He has five red zone targets and four deep targets. Pitts has a wonderful matchup this week against a Carolina defense that has allowed the sixth-most receiving yards, the second-highest yards per reception, and the fifth-most fantasy points per game to tight ends. He could easily post his fifth TE1 outing this week.
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