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
Harold Fannin Jr. (CLE)
With Dillon Gabriel under center, Fannin Jr. has had a 67.5% route share, an 18.4% target share, 43.3 receiving yards per game (1.65 yards per route run), and a 20% first-read share. In those three games, he has two red zone targets and weekly scoring finishes as the TE15, TE7, and TE23. Fannin Jr. is on the streaming radar this week. The Patriots have allowed the 11th-most receiving yards per game and the 12th-most fantasy points per game to tight ends.
Mason Taylor (NYJ)
Since Week 4, Mason Taylor has stacked two strong games and two duds. Yes, quarterback play has played a large role in it and will be moving forward. Since Week 4, Taylor has had a 19.4% target share with 41.3 receiving yards per game (1.27 yards per route run), and a 20.6% first-read share. Taylor has two red zone targets in those four games. Taylor should have a nice bounce-back game in Week 8 if his quarterback play complies against a defense that has allowed the most receiving yards and fantasy points per game to tight ends.
Cade Otton (TB)
Since Week 5, Cade Otton has had weekly scoring finishes of TE13, TE17, and TE11 with at least 10.1 PPR points in each game. In those three games, he has had an 18.9% target share, 65.7 receiving yards per game (2.14 yards per route run), and a 12.7% first-read share. This week, he’ll face a Saints’ pass defense that has utilized single high at the fifth-highest rate in the NFL (59.7%). Over the last three weeks, against single high, Otton has had a 20.4% target share with 2.74 yards per route run and a 16.2% first-read share. Otton is a viable streaming option this week against a defense that ranks 18th in receiving yards per game and has given up the tenth-most fantasy points per game to tight ends.
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