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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TreVeyon Henderson gashed the Bucs last week with explosives. Over the last two games, he has been the RB15 and RB4 in weekly scoring, averaging 16.5 touches and 118.5 total yards. Since Week 9, he has ripped some long runs, ranking sixth in explosive run rate, but he needs to give a hat tip to his offensive line. In that span, he has the highest yards before contact per attempt with an insane 5.61 yards before contact per attempt. In the same sample, he ranks 29th in success rate (50%), 24th in stuff rate (46.4%), 33rd in missed tackle rate (11%), and 41st in yards after contact per attempt (1.61). Henderson has had some massive running lanes and taken advantage with his back-breaking speed. He’s primed to do it again this week. Since Week 6, the Jets have allowed the sixth-most rushing yards per game, the ninth-highest explosive run rate, and the fifth-highest missed tackle rate.
Since Week 4, Stefon Diggs has been the WR20 in fantasy points per game with a 68.1% route share, a 24.7% target share, 63.1 receiving yards per game, 2.76 yards per route run, and a 25.4% first-read share. In those seven games, Diggs has ten red zone targets and five deep targets. This week, he faces a Jets’ pass defense that, since Week 8, has utilized two high at the fifth-highest rate (62%). Since Week 4, against two high, Diggs has led the team with a 31% target per route run rate and logged 2.31 yards per route run (second-best). Diggs should have no issues in Week 11 running against Brandon Stephens (2025: 64.1% catch rate and 117.1 passer rating allowed) and Jarvis Brownlee Jr. (2025: 75% catch rate and 105.4 passer rating allowed) all game.
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