Start or sit? Decisions about whether to start or sit in fantasy football can be excruciating. While it feels great to make the right decision and cruise to fantasy glory, it hurts just as much when someone blows up while sitting on your couch. You can check out our Who Should I Start? tool to get advice from fantasy football experts as you make your lineup decisions. And you can also sync your fantasy football league for free with 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 prospects in this week’s fantasy football primer.

Fantasy football Start em, Sit em lineup advice

Spencer Rattler (QB)

Rattler had a decent first start for fantasy purposes as the QB18 for Week 6, but his per-dropback stats are all concerning. Of 37 qualifying quarterbacks, Rattler ranks 30th in yards per attempt, 36th in passer rating, 27th in CPOE and 35th in fantasy points per dropback. Denver will face the Saints without Patrick Surtain (concussion), but this is a strong enough pass defense that you should consider sitting Rattler, even in Superflex formats. Denver has held quarterbacks to the sixth-lowest passer rating, the third-lowest yards per attempt and the seventh-lowest CPOE.

Bub Resources (WR)

Resources could serve as the team’s WR1 this week. Last week, in Rattler’s first NFL start, Means had a route share of 70.8%, a target share of 20%, an air yard share of 27.5%, 1.32 YPRR, one end zone target share and a team-leading share of 26, 9% on first reading. Resources are just a deep-league flex option. He will run about 65% of his routes against Levi Wallace (71.4% catch rate and 82.4 passer rating) and Riley Moss (60.5% catch rate and 77.7 passer rating). Denver has allowed the fewest fantasy points per game to wide receivers.

Bo Nix (QB)

Nix has done his best Daniel Jones impression over the past four weeks. In three of the last four weeks, he finished as a top 13 fantasy quarterback (QB13, QB8, QB8) despite remaining a near-bottom passer in the league. As of Week 3, among 37 qualifying passers, Nix ranks 32nd in yards per attempt, 21st in passer rating, 29th in passing yards per game and 28th in CPOE. His rushing production has helped expose his shortcomings. Nix has averaged 6.2 rushing attempts and 30 rushing yards per game while recording three rushing scores. This week, he could continue the fantasy hot streak against what has become a beatable New Orleans pass defense. The Saints have allowed the fourth-most passing yards per game, the ninth-highest yards per attempt and the sixth-highest success rate per dropback.

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