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Startem sitem Thursday Week 5 2022

By Brad Kruse
Brad Kruse

 

 

 

 

 


In this Start Em / Sit Em column each week, I'm looking to find some fringe players that you might consider starting each week and comment based on their matchups. Early on, I'll base my selection of candidates on where they were with respect to ADP. I'm not going to try to pad my stats by suggesting your start Josh Allen each week, but instead trying to dig deep and find some nuggets for players to avoid or to go after. These are coin flip guys and if I can finish the year at better than 60% I'll consider it a success. My metrics to get the start decision are: QB 20 pts or more, RB, WR or TE need to score 12 pts or more for a successful endorsement. Defense/Special Teams should put in 8 points or more to get those picks right. I'll look at ~3 players on each Thursday night's game and ~ 6 players for the rest of the week to get you going.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Player Pos Team Opp Start / Sit Comment
Nyheim Hines RB IND DEN START With Jonathon Taylor OUT for Thursday night's game, Hines should see a solid workload
Melvin Gordon RB DEN IND START With Jonthan Williams out for the year, everyone moves up. Gordon should see RB1 workload and Boone should see RB2. Latavius is likely still jet lagged from his return from London and relocating from New Orleans. He's likely not a threat for workload this week. But, there could be a hot hand approach here too. Which makes each of the RBs potentially a boom bust.
Mike Boone RB DEN IND START With Jonthan Williams out for the year, everyone moves up. Gordon should see RB1 workload and Boone should see RB2. Latavius is likely still jet lagged from his return from London and relocating from New Orleans. He's likely not a threat for workload this week. But, there could be a hot hand approach here too. Which makes each of the RBs potentially a boom bust.