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 suiting up for Thursday Night Football and what fantasy football expert Derek Brown advises.
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Fantasy Football Start’em, Sit’em Lineup Advice: Week 3
Here’s Derek Brown’s fantasy football Week 3 outlook for a few players to help with lineup decisions.
Drake London (WR – ATL)
Atlanta’s quarterback play has absolutely crushed Drake London to begin this season as the WR55 in fantasy points per game. London has an 18.5% target share, 1.78 YPRR, zero red zone targets, zero deep targets, and a team-leading 20% first-read share. London hasn’t been bad, as he ranks 25th in separation score among 101 qualifying receivers after two weeks, but he can’t throw accurate passes to himself. We’ll see if he can get on track this week against a secondary that has held perimeter wide receivers to the sixth-fewest yards per target, but has allowed the 13th-most fantasy points per opportunity to the position. London should see a bump in volume with Penix back.
Jordan Love (QB – GB)
Jordan Love hasn’t played well to begin the season. Yes, he’s the QB13 in fantasy points per game, but that’s on the strength of a high-passing-volume Week 1, which carried him to QB11 for that week. Last week, he fell to QB20 in weekly scoring. Love has been struggling as a passer. Among 29 qualifying passers, Love does have the 12th-highest yards per attempt and the ninth-highest aDOT, but he also has the fourth-lowest passing success rate, the lowest highly accurate throw rate and catchable target rate, and the highest off-target rate. Love could struggle again this week against a pass defense that has the third-best pressure rate while allowing the third-lowest passing success rate, the 11th-fewest yards per attempt, and the 14th-fewest EPA per dropback.
Kyle Pitts (TE – ATL)
Kyle Pitts has been an afterthought to begin the season. Yes, this is partially because of the Falcons’ quarterback situation, but also because Pitts has only had a 50% snap share and 56.9% route share. Neither of those usage metrics was what I expected entering this season. I figured he would be an every-down player for Atlanta, especially considering the state of their receiving depth chart. Pitts has a 7.4% target share, 0.41 YPRR, zero red zone targets, one deep target, and a 10% first-read share (third on the team behind Drake London and Jahan Dotson). I’m hesitant to plug Pitts back into a lineup this week. Green Bay has held tight ends to the 13th-fewest yards per target while ranking 16th in fantasy points per opportunity allowed to the position. I have to see Pitts’ usage and production scale up with Michael Penix back or a smash matchup to feel better about Pitts. Sit him this week.
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