Week 15 Fantasy Soccer Q&A: Prime Burning Questions

Friday afternoons are my alternative to attach with FantasyPros readers and the FantasyPros Discord neighborhood. In case you haven’t already accomplished so, make sure you be part of our Discord to get solutions to your questions. I host weekly AMAs on Fridays, and different analysts additionally routinely reply questions. Under have been three standout subjects from Friday’s busy Week 15 AMA.

Discord AMA: Week 15

Can Players Belief Rico Dowdle or Chuba Hubbard?

The Panthers are coming off their bye, and lots of FantasyPros Discord customers had fantasy begin sit questions on Rico Dowdle and Chuba Hubbard. Dowdle is the RB23 in half-PPR skilled consensus rankings (ECR), and Hubbard is the RB29. The hole is slim, however I’d have it even tighter, bumping D’Andre Swift and Tyrone Tracy Jr. above Dowdle, and sliding Devin Neal and Aaron Jones behind Hubbard. Primarily, I’d have them back-to-back as fringe RB2 choices in 12-team leagues.

In response to the Fantasy Factors knowledge suite, in Carolina’s thrilling Week 13 victory towards the Rams, Dowdle had 18 rush makes an attempt for 58 yards in comparison with 17 carries for 83 yards for Hubbard, however Hubbard had a 54.2% route participation fee versus 20.8% for Dowdle. How will the Panthers divvy up backfield alternatives this week?

Early within the week, I used to be excited to see Hubbard’s $4,600 wage on DraftKings and talked about it within the Sharp Soccer Slack chat, which sparked a dialogue about how Dave Canales will use the operating backs. Wealthy Hribar, often known as Lord Reebs within the Twitter streets, shared an fascinating article that shed some mild on how Dowdle and Hubbard might be used.

Canales mentioned giving Dowdle “the lion’s share of a few of these first and second downs, these early sequence and all that’s an effective way to only get him the ball.” He additionally highlighted Hubbard’s utilization on third downs and mixing in for some sequence. It appears as if Dowdle will begin and get extra early-down work than Hubbard, however Hubbard has the dear passing downs with the potential to carve out a bigger early-down function if he’s the new again. Dowdle’s rugged operating might make him the favourite for goal-line alternatives, although. Because of this, I barely desire Dowdle to Hubbard in something however PPR codecs, and Hubbard will get the nod in PPR leagues. They’re each within the low-end RB2/Flex combine in 12-team leagues.

Is Christian Watson Too Dangerous Towards Pat Surtain?

Christian Watson doesn’t come with out danger this week. First, he’ll probably see fairly a little bit of Pat Surtain in protection. In response to the Fantasy Factors knowledge suite, Watson has aligned 67.4% of the time in seven video games this 12 months. Per Professional Soccer Focus (PFF), Surtain has performed 534 snaps as an out of doors nook and 55 within the slot. Thankfully, Watson has aligned within the slot 30.8% of the time and in-line 1.7% of the time. Thus, he might escape Surtain’s protection for some snaps on Sunday.

Second, Watson’s route participation is 75.4% this 12 months. But it jumped to 80.8% final week, regardless of Jayden Reed‘s return and an energetic Matthew Golden. Watson’s route participation isn’t splendid, nevertheless it’s not horrendous, both.

Even with obvious negatives, Watson is an attractive WR2 this week. He has a blistering 37% air yards share, 17.8% goal share, 0.22 targets per route run (TPRR), 3.6 receptions per sport, 64.6 receiving yards per sport, 2.63 yards per route run (YPRR), 5 landing receptions and two end-zone targets. Watson is balling out.

Watson additionally has big-play potential this week primarily based on Denver’s protection tendencies. The Broncos have performed man protection on the fourth-highest fee (38.4%) and Cowl 1 on the sixth-highest fee (25.2%) this season. Watson has 0.28 TPRR and a couple of.83 YPRR on 60 routes towards man protection and 0.28 TPRR and a couple of.76 YPRR on 58 routes towards Cowl 1 this season. Once more, Watson’s ground is low, however his ceiling and excellence this 12 months put him firmly within the WR2 combine.

Is RJ Harvey a Locked-In Starter?

Frankly, I used to be shocked by a number of the start-or-sit questions involving RJ Harvey. The rookie operating again is the RB17 in half-PPR ECR. I’m barely extra bullish on Harvey’s outlook.

As a substitute of operating by means of my Week 15 evaluation of Harvey once more, I’ll direct readers to take a look at my daring predictions for this week, the place I declared he’ll rating not less than 15 half-PPR factors in Week 15.

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