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

Javonte Williams (RB)

The New Orleans Saints defense is starting to crumble, which could allow Williams to post his best-performing line of the season. Williams is the RB37 in fantasy this season, and unfortunately, he hasn’t looked much better this season than he did last year. He is averaging 13.1 touches and 59.3 total yards. Of 61 qualifying backs, Williams ranks 39th in explosive run rate and 42nd in yards after contact per attempt. New Orleans allows backs to run all over them, giving up the 13th highest explosive run rate and rushing yards per game, sixth highest rushing success rate and third highest missed tackle rate.

Courtland Sutton (WR)

Sutton is the WR45 in fantasy points per game, with a 23.2% target share, 43.2% air yard share, and 32.8% first-read share. He has posted 1.53 YPRR while ranking third in the NFL in red zone targets. This week’s matchup is an upgrade for Sutton. New Orleans has allowed the fifth-most receiving yards per game to surround wide receivers. Sutton will run about 85% of his routes against Marshon Lattimore (54.5% catch rate and 71.8 passer rating) and Paulson Adebo (60% catch rate and 67.7 passer rating).

Juwan Johnson (TE)

With all the injuries to the Saints depth chart, Johnson could see a bigger role in Week 7. Since Week 4, he has been more involved in the offense with a 9.9% target share, 1.11 YPRR and a 10.4% share first reading. Johnson has just one red zone target this season. Denver was an average matchup for tight ends. The Broncos rank 15th in receiving yards and fantasy points per play allowed for the tight end position.

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