Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em: Troy Franklin, Parker Washington, Darius Slayton

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 dive into our start/sit lineup advice and outlook for a few of the top fantasy football waiver wire pickups of the week.

Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em Lineup Advice

Troy Franklin (WR – DEN)

Analysis: Troy Franklin entered Week 9 with an 18.6% target share, 44.8 receiving yards per game, 1.61 yards per route run and a 20.6% first-read share, per Fantasy Points Data. He has three top-36 weekly finishes at the wide receiver position this season. He had a dud of a stat line against the Texans with only four receptions and 27 scoreless receiving yards, but he did amass a 27% target share. While the fantasy production wasn’t there against Houston, that type of market share of the Denver passing offense is awesome, especially this week, when Franklin is a strong Flex play again. Since Week 4, the Raiders have allowed the eighth-most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers.

Parker Washington (WR – JAX)

Analysis: In Parker Washington‘s last game before the Week 8 bye, he had a 77.2% route share, a 20.8% target share, 52 receiving yards and a 17.9% first-read share, per Fantasy Points Data. Washington already looked to be emerging in the Jaguars’ passing offense, but then, in the run-up to Week 9, Travis Hunter sustained a knee injury and was placed on injured reserve (IR). Washington entered Week 9 already looking like a strong Flex, and then Brian Thomas Jr. sustained an ankle injury on Sunday and Dyami Brown sustained a concussion. Washington assumed the No. 1 WR role for the offense. He finished with a 26.4% target share, eight receptions and 90 receiving yards. Washington will be the team’s No. 1 WR moving forward until Thomas returns to the lineup. His upcoming matchups aren’t great, but he’ll still see plenty of volume to be a strong Flex proposition.

Darius Slayton (WR – NYG)

Analysis: Darius Slayton was a long reception away from a monster day on Sunday, but he couldn’t secure a catch in the end zone. Slayton was removed from the game after taking a big hit during the play. His injury was unclear, so we’ll have to see what his practice reports look like this week. He finished Week 9 with a 21.2% target share, five receptions and 62 receiving yards. Assuming he’s good to go this week and moving forward, he’ll be a strong Flex play against the struggling secondaries of Chicago and Green Bay.

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