Week 3 Start/Sit: You Need a Win!

The difficulty in trying to analyze or assess fantasy production and value this early in the season is there simply isn’t enough data to accurately gauge how a player might perform against new defenses, with new offensive lines. Much can change over on off-season, and as we’ve seen through two weeks of actual NFL games, there have been many surprises which have in turn left desperate fantasy owners trying to pick up the pieces of teams they drafted to be dominating beasts. Who might have guessed that first round picks like Steve Slaton and Matt Forte wouldn’t even be in the top 40 at their position? Or that Randy Moss would not yet have found the endzone? Or that Tom Brady would be playing more like Brady Quinn?

Last week I took a look at eight running backs and made predictions on whether to start or sit them. I got 6 of 8 correct. The two I got wrong were starting Matt Forte, (though he didn’t have a terrible day), and sitting Cedric Benson (who’d have guessed Green Bay’s defense would fall apart last week?).

Start ‘Em!

Eli Manning: The Bucs are hurting in the defensive backfield and Manning has found some life in his wide receivers with Manningham and Smith. At the start of the season sans Burress I never thought I would recommend little brother and I sure wouldn’t have expected Smith and Manningham to lead the NFC in receiving yards!!