Fantasy Football Start em, Sit em: Xavier Worthy, Jakobi Meyers, Kareem Hunt (Week 13)

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Let’s take a look at some polarizing players and the advice of fantasy football expert Derek Brown. And for all of DBro’s fantasy football prospects, check out this week’s Fantasy Football Primer.

Fantasy Football Start em, Sit em Lineup Tip: Week 13

Kareem Hunt (RB)

Hunt is the RB16 in fantasy points per game and ranks 21st in snap share, seventh in opportunity share and sixth in red zone touches. He has averaged 21.5 touches and 89 total yards this season. Hunt should retain the lion’s share of the workload this week, even with Isiah Pacheco returning. I expect Pacheco to get a handful of touches and snaps this week as the team will likely bring him back in. This hurts Hunt’s ceiling, but his floor heading into Week 13 is still high. Among the 54 qualifying backs, he ranks 50th in forced missed tackles per attempt and 46th in yards after contact per attempt. Volume has been crucial to Hunt’s fantasy value, so I can’t say his value won’t drop a bit this week and going forward, especially as the Raiders’ run defense improves. Since Week 7, Las Vegas has allowed the eighth-fewest rushing yards per game, the eighth-lowest explosive run rate and the 10th-fewest yards after contact per attempt.

Jakobi Meyers (WR)

Meyers is the WR20 in fantasy points per game and has been a volume monster without Davante Adams on the team. Since Week 4, he has a 24.5% target share, 37% air yardage share, 1.89 YPRR and 32.9% first read share. During that span, he averaged 71.2 yards per game, but unfortunately he had only seen four red zone targets and scored one receiving touchdown. The last time Meyers faced Kansas City, he finished the week as the WR20 with six receptions, 52 receiving yards and one score. The Chiefs have been more vulnerable to perimeter wide receivers lately. Since Week 7, they have allowed the 13th highest PPR points per target to the position. Meyers is a strong player again this week.

Xavier Worthy (WR)

Since the Chiefs acquired DeAndre Hopkins, Worthy’s route percentage has never dipped below 64.3%. In his five games with Hopkins, Worthy played the outfielder role for two games, but in three games his role was fairly consistent (Weeks 8, 11 and 12). In those games, Worthy had an aDOT of 10.3, a target percentage of 17.6%, a YPRR of 1.71 and a first read percentage of 24.6%. In those games (one of which was against Las Vegas), Worthy saw three red zone goals. Worthy is just a mediocre flex game this week against a secondary that has given perimeter wide receivers the 17th highest PPR points per target since Week 7.

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