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 experts Pat Fitzmaurice and Derek Brown advise. And you can find all of DBro’s fantasy football outlook in this week’s fantasy football primer as well as Fitz’s fantasy football rankings & tiers.
Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em Lineup Advice
Kenneth Walker III (RB – SEA)
Since Week 4, Kenneth Walker has averaged a 43% snap rate with 39 of the 72 running back carries, and had a 26.9% route share (4.6% target share). He has averaged 14 touches and 77.7 total yards, with only six of the 19 running back red zone carries. It’s been tough to watch him lap Zach Charbonnet in every efficiency metric conceivable, and Seattle still utilizes Charbonnet so much and as their goal-line back. Walker has finished as the RB27, RB26, and RB43 in weekly scoring in those games, as he has scored zero touchdowns. Walker ranks second in explosive run rate and fifth in missed tackles forced per attempt. Walker should have another efficient day on the ground this week. If he can get into the end zone, he could post RB2 numbers in Week 7. Houston has allowed the seventh-fewest rushing yards per game and the 12th-lowest explosive run rate, but they have also managed the third-lowest stuff rate with the fourth-highest missed tackle rate, the 11th-highest yards after contact per attempt, and given up the second-highest success rate to zone runs (Walker 57.7% zone).
-Derek Brown
Jordan Mason (RB – MIN)
Since Week 3, Jordan Mason has been the RB16 in fantasy points per game, averaging 17 touches and 81.3 total yards. Among 50 qualifying backs, he ranks 14th in explosive run rate and tenth in missed tackle rate. Minny should lean on Mason this week. Philly has allowed the sixth-most rushing yards per game, the 14th-highest yards after contact per attempt, the tenth-highest yards per carry to zone runs, and the 12th-highest success rate to zone runs (Mason 55.1% zone).
-Derek Brown
Wan’Dale Robinson (WR – NYG)
Wan’Dale Robinson has two WR1 weekly finishes this season WR5, WR9), but the problem is that he has finished outside the top 30 wide receivers in weekly scoring in every other game. Since Week 4, Robinson has had a 21.8% target share with 42.7 receiving yards per game (1.29 yards per route run), and a 20% first-read share. Robinson has three red zone targets in his last three games. Denver has the fifth-highest single high rate in the NFL (58.8%). Since Week 4, against single high, Robinson has seen his target share fall to 18.8% with a 17.6% first-read share. Those numbers aren’t encouraging, especially when paired with the fact that Denver has allowed the second-fewest PPR points per target and 13th-fewest receiving yards per game to slot receivers. Sit Robinson this week.
-Derek Brown
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