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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Last week, TeSlaa had an 83.9% route share, a 7.4% target share, 35 receiving yards, 1.35 yards per route run, and a 12.5% first-read share. TeSlaa didn’t garner a large portion of the passing offense even with Amon-Ra St. Brown going down. Overall, this season, he has had an 8% target per route run rate with 0.71 yards per route run and a 3.9% first-read share. He has four red zone targets, one deep target, and three touchdowns. He’s a deep league flex play this week because of the matchup. Since Week 9, Dallas has allowed the 13th-most PPR points per target and the most receiving yards per game to perimeter wide receivers.
David Montgomery‘s role has been shrinking in the Detroit offense. Since Week 11, he has averaged only 8.3 touches and 33.2 total yards. In those three games, he has split the red zone work with Jahmyr Gibbs, with both players seeing four red zone rushing attempts. In his last three games, he has averaged a 36.8% snap rate. Overall, among 55 qualifying backs, Montgomery ranks 32nd in explosive run rate and 20th in yards after contact per attempt. Since the acquisition of Quinnen Williams, Dallas has allowed the second-fewest rushing yards per game, the 13th-lowest yards after contact per attempt, and the sixth-fewest yards before contact per attempt. Montgomery is a flex option better left on the bench this week.
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