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 Week 11, Luther Burden has taken over as Chicago’s starting slot receiver with a 56.8% route share, a 14.9% target share, 36.5 receiving yards per game, 1.74 yards per route run, and a 20.5% first-read share. He hasn’t drawn a red zone target or deep target in those two games. This isn’t the matchup to look to flex Burden against. Since Week 7, Philly has allowed the second-fewest PPR points per target and the tenth-fewest receiving yards per game to slot receivers.
Over the last two games, Loveland has still been competing with Cole Kmet for playing time. He has had a 52.7% route share (Kmet, 55.4%) with a 13.4% target share, 44.5 receiving yards per game, 2.28 yards per route run, and a 13.6% first-read share. In his last two games, he has had two red zone targets and one end zone target. I don’t want to stream Loveland this week. The Eagles have shut down tight ends, giving up the second-fewest receiving yards per game and the third-fewest fantasy points per game to the position.
I can’t plug Isiah Pacheco into a lineup this week. If he’s active this week, I expect him to be behind Kareem Hunt in the running back pecking order. It’s also possible that Kansas City continues to roll with Hunt as their bellcow for Week 13.
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