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.
Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em Lineup Advice
Chimere Dike (TEN)
Last week, Chimere Dike was a full-time player with an 86% route share, a 21.1% target share, 93 receiving yards (2.51 yards per route run), and a 23.8% first-read share (second on the team). Across the last two games, he has one red zone target and two deep targets. Since Week 6, Los Angeles has utilized two high at the third highest rate (66.7%). Since Week 7, against two high, Dike has a 21% target per route run rate (second on the team) and 2.18 yards per route run. Strong numbers for the rookie. The Bolts have allowed the tenth-most PPR points per target to slot receivers this season. Dike is a solid flex play for Week 9.
AJ Barner (SEA)
Since Week 4, AJ Barner has been the TE9 in fantasy points per game with a 12.6% target share, averaging 40.8 receiving yards per game (2.12 yards per route run) with a 12% first-read share. In these four games, he has four red zone targets (three scores) and a deep target. Barner is a solid streamer this week as Washington has allowed the 11th-most receiving yards per game and the ninth-most schedule-adjusted fantasy points per game to tight ends.
Zach Ertz (WAS)
Zach Ertz is the TE15 in fantasy points per game with two TE1 outings this season. Ertz and Deebo Samuel should lead the way for Washington this week against Seattle’s two-high coverage. Ertz has three red zone targets and two scores in his last five games. Seattle has the second-highest two high rate (62%). Against two high, Ertz is second on the team with a 24.7% target share with 2.03 yards per route run and a 34.7% first-read share (leads the team). Seattle has allowed the eighth-most receiving yards per game and the fourth-most schedule-adjusted fantasy points per game to tight ends.
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