Chris Godwin start or sit: Week 13 fantasy football advice

The 6-5 Tampa Bay Buccaneers host the 4-7 Arizona Cardinals as 2.5-point favorites this Sunday. We are still waiting on QB Baker Mayfield’s status, as he suffered a shoulder sprain last week. If Bridgewater does end up starting, it would be a downgrade to the Buccaneers receivers like Chris Godwin, who we will take a look at for fantasy this week. But, it does look like Mayfield has a good chance at toughing through the pain. It will be impossible to know how much it will impact his performance though.

Godwin returned from his shin injury last week and wasn’t given a full time role. He ended up just playing on 36% of the snaps, whereas he usually would play around 80%. He caught 2-of-4 targets for nine yards. Of course that isn’t great, but they were playing a tough Rams defense and four targets isn’t awful on 25 snaps. Head coach Todd Bowles told reporters that Godwin would see increased usage moving forward.

So, we have a couple unknowns heading into this matchup. First, will Mayfield or Bridgewater play? Second, will Godwin see a significant uptick in work or will it be more incremental? Add in the Cardinals pass defense being above average against wide receivers, and we’ll need a lot to go right for Godwin to be a good start this week.

Sit.

Sit.