Jaylen Waddle start or sit: Week 16 fantasy football advice

The 6-8 Miami Dolphins host the 4-10 Cincinnati Bengals as 4.5-point home underdogs this Sunday. The line would likely be closer if Tua Tagovailoa were still behind center, but the team appears ready to move on from Tua and are giving rookie Quinn Ewers the start.

Usually, we’d start the Dolphins WR1, Jaylen Waddle, in most circumstances, but with Ewers behind center there is reason to think about hitting that start button ahead of the Week 16 fantasy playoffs.

Below, we’ll go over Jaylen Waddle’s outlook in fantasy football for Week 16.

Over his last four game, Waddle has finished as WR41, WR50, WR11, and WR72. Those games came against the Commanders, Saints, Jets and Steelers. As a Waddle backer, you were not happy about him coming up small in a stretch of easy matchups.

I’m not saying Tagovailoa was playing well, but I just don’t see Ewers playing better. It’s not out of the realm of possibility of course, and the good news is that they’ll be in the warmth of Miami and playing a bad Bengals defense. Cincinnati has been good against outside receivers while giving up a million fantasy points to tight ends, but Waddle does get moved around enough to get him away from the boundaries.

There is risk involved here, but if anyone is going to get pelted with targets it’s going to be Waddle and his ability should take things from there.

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