Fantasy Football Start em, Sit em: Mark Andrews, Rashod Bateman, Diontae Johnson (Week 10)

On November 8, 2024By Littum

Start them or sit them? 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 sitting on your bench. You can use our Who should I start? tool to gauge advice from fantasy football experts while making your lineup decisions. And you can also sync your fantasy football league for free using our My Playbook tool for custom tips, rankings and analytics.

Let’s take a look at a few polarizing players and what fantasy football expert Derek Brown advises. And you can find DBro’s entire fantasy football outlook in this week’s fantasy football primer.

Fantasy Football Start em, Sit em Lineup Advice

Diontae Johnson (WR)

Johnson had just a 27.3% route percentage last week while not drawing a target. This time frame is too short to expect Johnson’s involvement to increase enough for him to be imaginative this week. Put him back this week.

Rashod Bateman (WR)

Bateman is an easy fade this week. The correlation between bending and sitting Bateman has boiled down to their ability to defend deep passes. Bateman is second on the team in deep targets. Deep targets make up 21.6% of his target volume this season. Cincy has allowed the sixth-fewest passing yards per game. game and the fourth-lowest CPOE for deep passes. While I don’t expect Diontae Johnson to get a 70% route share this week, there is still a risk that Bateman’s snaps could be cannibalized by Johnson in two wide receiver sets. Sit Bateman this week.

Mark Andrews (TE)

Last week, Andrews had just a 49% snap rate (his lowest since Week 4) and a 46% route percentage, which is likely related to their blowout win against Denver. In Weeks 5-8, Andrews had a 54.4% route percentage, a 14.1% target percentage, a 2.48 YPRR and a 15.7% first down percentage. Andrews had six red zone targets and four scores in the four games. This week’s game against Cincy looks to be a more competitive game, which should lead to more snaps and routes for Andrews. Cincy has allowed the seventh most fantasy points per game. game and the eighth-most receiving yards per game. battle for tight ends.

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