Luther Burden start or sit: Week 15 fantasy football advice

The 9-4 Chicago Bears welcome the 3-10 Cleveland Browns to bitterly cold Soldier Field this Sunday. The Bears are big favorites at 7.5-points in a game where the high temperature will be 10 degrees with wind gusts up to 20 mph. That’s a feels-like temp of dead.

Anyway, there will still be some offense and the winds aren’t going to be crazy, but the Browns are a good defense and I’d expect everyone going just a little slower than normal. So, can we play any Bears receivers this week? They have plenty of them, especially if Rome Odunze returns after missing last week.

Below, we’ll go over Luther Burden’s outlook in fantasy football for Week 15.

Burden continues to win more work, and with Odunze out last week he had his biggest snap count of the year, which led to him leading the team in receptions and yards. Unfortunately his final line was just 4/67/0, but it was solid enough to not get discouraged for fantasy.

The question this week is if Odunze is playing or not. If he does, there are just too many mouths to feed against a strong defense in dangerously cold weather. With Odunze, D.J. Moore, Colston Loveland, Cole Kmet, D’Andre Swift, and Olamide Zaccheaus all getting playing time, I don’t think we can expect big usage for Burden.

Odunze has been limited to start this week of practices, but that does give him a chance to play. If he does miss, Burden gets a boost and becomes more appealing as a flex play, but for now, I’ll err on the side of Odunze playing and sit the rookie to be safe.

Sit.

Sit.