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Fantasy football · Week 9

Start 'em, sit 'em: Week 9, 2026

Full-PPR and guillotine calls every week of the season: first calls Wednesday morning, updated each morning through Sunday, and graded against what actually happened.

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Week 9 loses Tennessee and Pittsburgh to byes and loses Lamar Jackson for the season to thumb surgery, which hands Baltimore to Joe Fagnano, a third-string rookie who threw 21 times for 91 yards with an interception and a fumble in his debut. Baltimore is implied for 15.25 points at home as a ten-point underdog to Jacksonville, the strangest line on the board. The money is at San Francisco, implied for 31.25 against Las Vegas, with Dallas at 28.75 and Detroit at 28.75 inside the 51.5 and 50.5 totals. Arizona is implied for 14.5 at Seattle with Gardner Minshew starting in rain and gusts to 24 mph, and Philadelphia for 18 with Tanner McKee, who has taken ten sacks in three starts. Matthew Stafford is managing arm soreness, Kyler Murray's hamstring gets an update Thursday, Christian Watson is playing through a broken rib and Breece Hall returns after five games out. The approach is to buy target and carry volume that stands on its own and sell the four and five target shares in the three games totalling 43.5 or less: the Chargers at 18, the Eagles at 18 and Baltimore at 15.25.

Raiders

  1. Matt Gay

    K · LV at SF · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Las Vegas attempts 2.50 field goals a game with ten from 40 or beyond, and Gay has cleared eight points in six of eight weeks. San Francisco concedes 5.60 net yards an attempt and 3.48 a carry while allowing only 19.9 points a game, which is yardage without end-zone conversion and the stalled-drive profile a kicker needs. The projection is nine, clearing the guillotine line with room and the PPR line without a cushion.

  2. Brock Bowers

    TE · LV at SF · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Bowers has 62 targets in six games, 10.3 a week, for 91 yards a game and five touchdowns, and he took ten targets for 92 yards and two scores last week off a calf that is now a full practice. Seven catches for 90 yards is a 16-point projection before a touchdown. The role is unchanged and it is the only Las Vegas usage that has not moved.

  3. Tre Tucker

    WR · LV at SF · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Tucker drew one target last week after 12 the week before, and his season line is six a game for 59 yards with scores of 0.0, 26.7, 21.3 and 0.0 in the last four. Four catches for 60 yards is a 9.5-point projection, under both lines. San Francisco allows 5.60 net yards an attempt and 19.9 points a game, and Las Vegas is a ten-point road dog.

  4. Mike Washington Jr.

    RB · LV at SF · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Washington's 25 carries last week were a career high and the first time he reached double figures, and they produced 83 yards at 3.3 a carry with no catches. Sixteen carries at his 4.3 season average with no receiving work is a 7.6-point projection. San Francisco allows 3.48 yards a carry, the second-best rate in the league, and a ten-point road dog does not get 25 carries.

  5. Ashton Jeanty

    RB · LV at SF · Sun 4:25 PM ET Split
    PPRSitGuillotineStart

    Jeanty's carries have gone 23, 21, 19, 15, 10, 10, eight and two, and last week Mike Washington took 25 to his two. What is left is receiving: his 48 targets lead all backs and he took four for 64 yards. Five carries and 4.5 catches is a 10.8-point projection, which sits between the 14-point PPR line and the ten-point guillotine line, so he is a sit in one format and a start in the other.

  6. Michael Mayer

    TE · LV at SF · Sun 4:25 PM ET Split
    PPRSitGuillotineStart

    Mayer has 43 targets in eight games, 5.4 a week, for 44 yards and one touchdown, and he scored 10.3 last week on six targets. Four catches for 45 yards is an 8.4-point projection, above the seven-point guillotine line and below the ten-point PPR line, which is the split. Last week Las Vegas was a home favourite; this week it is a ten-point road dog against a defense allowing 19.9 points a game.

  7. Kirk Cousins

    QB · LV at SF · Sun 4:25 PM ET Split
    PPRSitGuillotineStart

    Cousins throws 35.4 times a game for 266 yards with 19 touchdowns and five interceptions, and his rushing is 20 carries for seven yards all season, so none of it is in the projection. Scaled to Las Vegas' implied 21.25 against a 49ers defense allowing 19.9 points a game, that is 16.5 points, between the 15-point guillotine line and the 18-point PPR line. He is outside the consensus top 12, so no start is written in PPR.

Waiver wire

1. Mike Washington Jr., LV, RB. Start-ready, 15 to 22 percent. Raiders first, and he is the week's clearest role change anywhere: 25 carries for 83 yards last week against Ashton Jeanty's two, after never reaching double figures in any earlier game. Jeanty's carry line has fallen 23, 21, 19, 15, 10, 10, eight, two. Washington has the ground work and the goal-line work; the only thing he does not have is receiving volume, which is why he is a sit this week against a San Francisco defense allowing 3.48 a carry.

2. Tyler Allgeier, ARI, RB. Start-ready, 10 to 16 percent. Jeremiyah Love is on injured reserve with an ankle and Bam Knight is in concussion protocol, which leaves Allgeier as the only healthy back from Arizona's Week 8 rotation. He turned 11 carries and five catches into 191 yards and two touchdowns last week. Seattle allowing 3.50 a carry caps this week, but the role is his from here.

3. Jonah Coleman, DEN, RB. Start-ready, 12 to 18 percent. Out-touched J.K. Dobbins 15 to seven for 104 yards and a touchdown with RJ Harvey on injured reserve, and he took four targets, which is the part Dobbins does not have. Carolina allows 4.83 yards a carry and faces 29.1 attempts a game.

4. Adonai Mitchell, NYJ, WR. Start-ready, 8 to 14 percent. Nine targets for seven catches and 142 yards last week, in a Jets receiver room where Garrett Wilson's 12 targets are the only settled share. Kansas City is a hard draw at a 19-point implied total, so this is a buy for Week 10 rather than a Sunday start.

5. Harold Fannin Jr., CLE, TE. Start-ready, 6 to 10 percent. Twelve targets for his first double-digit game and 51 on the season, and 23.4 points last week. New Orleans allows 6.58 net yards an attempt and faces 32.9 attempts a game, which is the kind of volume a second-year tight end needs.

6. Makai Lemon, PHI, WR. Flex, 5 to 9 percent. Nine targets last week and six or more in every game since Week 3, with 45 on the season. DeVonta Smith's hamstring return will cut into this, which is the risk, and Philadelphia implied for 18 points is the other one.

7. Mason Taylor, NYJ, TE. Streamer, 3 to 6 percent. Twenty-three targets in six games and 25.2 points in Week 7, rostered in 10 percent of leagues. He is second or third in the Jets' order and tight end is still the position where a cheap week is available.

8. Dylan Sampson, CLE, RB. Stash, 2 to 4 percent. Ten and 12.9 points in the last two weeks on light volume, 7.4 yards a carry on 2.3 carries a game, and he is the only back behind Quinshon Judkins, whose 3.4 yards a carry on a 59 percent snap share is not locking anyone out.

9. Spencer Shrader, IND, K. Streamer, 1 to 3 percent. Indianapolis attempts 2.62 field goals a game with 15 of 21 from 40 or beyond and scores 1.88 touchdowns a game, which is the stall profile that pays a kicker, and the Colts host Dallas indoors in a 51.5-point total.

Quarterbacks

Start 'em

  1. Joe Burrow

    QB · CIN at ATL · Sun 9:30 AM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Burrow is throwing 38.1 times a game for 302 yards and has 20 touchdowns against six interceptions in seven games, and his 2.9 carries a week add about a point. Atlanta concedes 5.82 net yards an attempt, faces 36.1 attempts a game and has three interceptions in eight games, which puts the no-spike projection at 23. Chase drew 16 targets last week and Higgins 11.

  2. Brock Purdy

    QB · SF vs LV · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    San Francisco is implied for 31.25 points, the highest figure on the board, and Purdy's own usage is 30.1 attempts for 250 yards a game with 15 touchdowns in seven. His 4.6 carries a game are worth 3.2 points, so the projection lands at 23. Las Vegas allows 6.93 net yards an attempt and 28.8 points a game.

  3. Jared Goff

    QB · DET at MIA · Sun 1:00 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Goff throws 35.4 times a game for 281 yards with 15 touchdowns and one interception in seven games, and his negligible rushing is already inside the 21-point projection. Miami allows 7.58 net yards an attempt, the worst mark in the league, and has nine sacks in seven games at a 4.4 percent rate. Detroit is implied for 28.75.

Sit 'em

  1. Justin Herbert

    QB · LAC vs HOU · Sun 4:05 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Herbert has five touchdown passes and ten interceptions in seven games on 30.3 attempts for 200 yards, and his 4.7 carries a game add only 2.6 points, which leaves the projection at 11. He has not cleared 14 in any game this season. Houston sacks at 7.9 percent against a Chargers line conceding 9.7 percent, and Los Angeles is implied for 18.

  2. Daniel Jones

    QB · IND vs DAL · Sun 1:00 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Jones has five touchdowns and nine interceptions in eight games on 33.5 attempts for 193 yards, and his 3.1 carries a week are worth 1.7 points, so the projection is ten. His best week was 13.8 and he has taken 13 sacks over three weeks. The 51.5 total is the highest on the slate and none of it is reaching him.

  3. Sam Darnold

    QB · SEA vs ARI · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Darnold has nine interceptions against ten touchdowns in seven games on 30.1 attempts for 211 yards, and his 1.6 carries a week add under a point, leaving the projection at 14. Rain is forecast with gusts to 24 mph. Seattle as a 12.5-point favourite has the game script to run rather than throw.

Running backs

Start 'em

  1. Chuba Hubbard

    RB · CAR vs DEN · Sun 1:00 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Hubbard has taken 30 opportunities in two of the last three weeks on a 79 percent snap share, and his eight targets last week were a career high. Twenty carries at his 4.6 a carry plus six catches is a 19-point projection with no touchdown. Denver allows 4.49 yards a carry and faces 28.5 rushing attempts a game.

  2. Kenneth Walker III

    RB · KC vs NYJ · Sun 1:00 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Walker carries 20.1 times a game at 5.5 a carry, which is 111 yards before a touchdown, and his 3.1 catches a game take the projection to 17. He scored 12.4 last week, but the Jets face 31.2 rushing attempts a game, the most in the league, while allowing 3.96 a carry, and Kansas City is implied for 28.5 at home rather than chasing.

  3. Chase Brown

    RB · CIN at ATL · Sun 9:30 AM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Brown took nine targets and eight catches last week and is on pace for 102 targets, which is the floor that matters here rather than his 3.6 yards a carry. Thirteen carries and seven catches is a 17-point projection with no touchdown. Atlanta allows 4.34 a carry and faces 27.2 attempts a game, and Cincinnati converts 52.9 percent of third downs.

Sit 'em

  1. Omarion Hampton

    RB · LAC vs HOU · Sun 4:05 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Hampton is at 12.7 carries a game for 3.5 a carry with 1.9 targets, which is a seven-point projection and matches his 4.7, 7.9 and 4.9 over the last three weeks. Houston allows 3.83 yards a carry and the Chargers are implied for 18 points, the joint lowest on the board. The role has not changed since this call cashed last week.

  2. J.K. Dobbins

    RB · DEN at CAR · Sun 1:00 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Dobbins was out-touched 15 to seven last week and is at 11.8 carries a game for 3.3 a carry with 1.1 targets, so eight carries and under a catch is a four-point projection. Jonah Coleman has taken the carries and the passing-game share with RJ Harvey on injured reserve. Carolina's 4.83 yards a carry allowed does not help a back who is not getting the ball.

  3. Derrick Henry

    RB · BAL vs JAX · Thu 8:15 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Jacksonville allows 3.39 yards a carry, the best rate in the league, and faces only 22.9 attempts a game. Henry is at 4.0 a carry with 1.8 targets, so 18 carries and a catch is a nine-point projection before a touchdown, and he has gone 5.0, 5.9 and 14.0 over three weeks. His carry count should hold with Joe Fagnano starting; the yards will not.

Wide receivers

Start 'em

  1. Tee Higgins

    WR · CIN at ATL · Sun 9:30 AM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Higgins has 61 targets in seven games at 8.7 a week for 104 yards a game, and his 11 targets last week produced 37.5 points. Seven catches for 115 yards is an 18-point projection with no touchdown and the role is unchanged. Atlanta concedes 5.82 net yards an attempt on 36.1 attempts a game with three interceptions in eight.

  2. Matthew Golden

    WR · GB at NE · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Golden has 82 targets in eight games, 12 or more in five of them and 13 last week, which is the volume this projection rests on rather than Christian Watson's rib. Eight catches for 95 yards is 17.5 points before a touchdown. New England allows 6.23 net yards an attempt and faces 32.1 attempts a game.

  3. Malik Nabers

    WR · NYG at PHI · Sun 1:00 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Nabers has 70 targets in seven games at ten a week for 86 yards and has gone 29.1, 28.5 and 18.1 over the last three. Seven catches for 90 yards is a 17-point projection with no touchdown. Philadelphia sacks at 3.5 percent, the lowest rate in the league, which leaves J.J. McCarthy time to throw even in a 39.5-point game.

Sit 'em

  1. Ladd McConkey

    WR · LAC vs HOU · Sun 4:05 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    McConkey has 24 targets in six games, four a week, for 48 yards a game and one touchdown. Three catches for 50 yards is a 7.5-point projection. The Chargers are implied for 18 in a 40.5-point total, the joint lowest on the slate, and Houston allows 6.40 net yards an attempt, so there is no environment here to rescue the share.

  2. Courtland Sutton

    WR · DEN at CAR · Sun 1:00 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Sutton has 37 targets in eight games, 4.6 a week, for 28 yards a game and one touchdown, and he has not cleared ten points since Week 5. Three catches for 30 yards is a six-point projection. The total is 43.5 and Carolina allows 5.80 net yards an attempt, which is a middling environment rather than a rescue.

  3. Zay Flowers

    WR · BAL vs JAX · Thu 8:15 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Lamar Jackson is out for the season after thumb surgery and Joe Fagnano starts, having thrown 21 times for 91 yards with an interception and a fumble in his debut while taking three sacks. Flowers' 8.3 targets a game are worth less at that attempt volume, so four catches for 55 yards is a nine-point projection. Baltimore is implied for 15.25, the lowest figure on the board.

Tight ends

Start 'em

  1. Brock Bowers

    TE · LV at SF · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Bowers has 62 targets in six games, 10.3 a week, for 91 yards a game and five touchdowns, and he took ten targets for 92 yards and two scores last week off a calf that is now a full practice. Seven catches for 90 yards is a 16-point projection before a touchdown. The role is unchanged and it is the only Las Vegas usage that has not moved.

  2. Trey McBride

    TE · ARI at SEA · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    McBride leads tight ends with 86 targets in eight games, 10.8 a week, and holds a 53.6 percent share of Arizona's targets along with Michael Wilson. Eight catches for 68 yards is a 15-point projection with no touchdown. Rain and gusts to 24 mph are forecast, which does not reach a target drawing eight short-area looks a game.

Sit 'em

  1. Mark Andrews

    TE · BAL vs JAX · Thu 8:15 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Andrews has 41 targets in eight games, 5.1 a week, for 27 yards a game and one touchdown, and he has gone 4.8, 1.4, 5.3 and 4.4 over four weeks. Three catches for 27 yards is a six-point projection. Joe Fagnano threw 21 times for 91 yards in his debut, so the attempt pool shrinks rather than concentrates.

  2. Kyle Pitts Sr.

    TE · ATL vs CIN · Sun 9:30 AM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Pitts has 32 targets in eight games, four a week, for 25 yards a game, and four touchdowns carry the rest of his line. Three catches for 25 yards is a five-point projection. Cincinnati sacks at 8.7 percent and allows 6.28 net yards an attempt on 25.3 attempts a game, which is not a soft spot for a fourth option.

Kickers

Start 'em

  1. Spencer Shrader

    K · IND vs DAL · Sun 1:00 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Indianapolis attempts 2.62 field goals a game with 15 of 21 from 40 or beyond and scores only 1.88 touchdowns a game, which is the stalled-drive profile that pays a kicker. Shrader is 90 percent on the year and the projection is 12.6 indoors. Dallas allows 26.6 points a game, so the drives will arrive.

  2. Ka'imi Fairbairn

    K · HOU at LAC · Sun 4:05 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Houston attempts 2.29 field goals a game, converts 94 percent and has ten attempts from 40 or beyond, while converting only 37.1 percent of third downs, so drives stop short of the end zone. The game is under a fixed roof and the projection is 10.4. Fairbairn has gone 16, 17, 11 and 11 over four weeks.

Sit 'em

  1. Chad Ryland

    K · ARI at SEA · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Arizona is implied for 14.5 points, the lowest figure on the board, with Gardner Minshew starting, and rain with gusts to 24 mph is forecast, which costs a kicker whose attempts come from distance. Ten of Ryland's 21 attempts are from 40 or beyond. The projection is under six.

  2. Eddy Pineiro

    K · SF vs LV · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    San Francisco attempts 1.29 field goals a game, the fewest in the league, and scores 3.57 touchdowns a game, so an implied 31.25 points arrives as extra points rather than kicks. Pineiro is six of nine on the year and has one double-digit week in seven. The projection is six.

Defenses

Start 'em

  1. Seahawks D/ST

    DEF · SEA vs ARI · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Seattle allows 4.71 net yards an attempt, the best rate in the league, and sacks at 6.8 percent against an Arizona line that has conceded 20 sacks in eight games. Arizona is implied for 14.5 with Gardner Minshew starting, which puts the points-allowed credit at four to seven, and Seattle has eight interceptions and five fumble recoveries. A defensive or return score is not forecastable, so the projection is ten from sacks, turnovers and points.

  2. Jaguars D/ST

    DEF · JAX at BAL · Thu 8:15 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Jacksonville has nine interceptions and faces a Baltimore line conceding sacks at 8.8 percent, 22 in eight games. Joe Fagnano starts with Lamar Jackson out for the season, and in his debut he threw 21 times for 91 yards with an interception, a fumble and three sacks taken. Baltimore is implied for 15.25. The projection is nine without a return touchdown, which cannot be forecast.

Sit 'em

  1. Ravens D/ST

    DEF · BAL vs JAX · Thu 8:15 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Baltimore sacks at 6.1 percent with four interceptions in eight games and has gone 10, minus three and minus one over the last three weeks. Jacksonville scores 28.0 points a game with 3.29 touchdowns, converts 48.2 percent of third downs and is implied for 25.25, which zeroes the points-allowed credit this unit needs. The projection is under four.

  2. Vikings D/ST

    DEF · MIN vs BUF · Mon 8:15 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Minnesota's 11.0 percent sack rate is the best in the league, but Buffalo concedes only 6.0 percent, 13 sacks in seven games. Buffalo scores 33.3 points a game with 3.86 touchdowns and is implied for 24.5, which wipes out the points-allowed credit that carries this unit. The projection is five without a defensive score.

Flex

Running backs, receivers and tight ends for the flex spot, beyond the calls above.

Start 'em

  1. Jaxon Smith-Njigba

    WR · SEA vs ARI · Sun 4:25 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Smith-Njigba has 89 targets in eight games, 11.1 a week, for 123 yards a game and nine touchdowns, and the role is unchanged from the call that cashed last week. Eight catches for 123 yards is a 20-point projection with no touchdown. Rain and gusts to 24 mph trim the deep shots, not the 11 targets, and Arizona allows 7.08 net yards an attempt, the worst in the league.

  2. CeeDee Lamb

    WR · DAL at IND · Sun 1:00 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Lamb leads the league with 92 targets in eight games, 11.5 a week, for 89 yards. Seven catches for 90 yards is a 16.5-point projection before a touchdown, and he scored 12.8 last week. What is different is the environment: a 51.5 total indoors, Dallas implied for 28.75, and a Colts defense allowing 6.89 net yards an attempt with two interceptions and two fumble recoveries in eight games.

  3. Puka Nacua

    WR · LAR at WSH · Sun 1:00 PM ET
    PPRStartGuillotineStart

    Nacua has 74 targets in six games, 12.3 a week, for 94 yards, and nine catches plus 94 yards is an 18.7-point projection with no touchdown. Matthew Stafford is questionable with arm soreness and has not been ruled out, which is the risk and the reason this sits at rank three. Washington allows 6.32 net yards an attempt on 36.1 attempts a game.

Sit 'em

  1. Jaylen Waddle

    WR · DEN at CAR · Sun 1:00 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Waddle has 51 targets in eight games, 6.4 a week, for 39 yards a game and two touchdowns, and he has cleared 15 points once. Four catches for 40 yards is a 7.5-point projection. The total is 43.5 and Carolina allows 5.80 net yards an attempt, so neither the share nor the environment gets him to the line.

  2. Jordan Addison

    WR · MIN vs BUF · Mon 8:15 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Addison has 33 targets in six games, 5.5 a week, for 42 yards and one touchdown, with 0.0, 4.3 and 11.6 over the last three. Three catches for 45 yards is a seven-point projection. Kyler Murray is questionable with a hamstring and an update is due Thursday, and Max Brosmer has not thrown a pass this season.

  3. Braelon Allen

    RB · NYJ at KC · Sun 1:00 PM ET
    PPRSitGuillotineSit

    Breece Hall is expected back from a quad after five games out and the Jets' head coach has said he assumes Hall is their guy, which halves Allen's 14 carries a game. Nine carries at his 5.0 a carry plus two catches is a 7.7-point projection. Kansas City allows 3.55 yards a carry and the Jets are implied for 19.

Guillotine survival

Survival this week is a Baltimore problem and a split problem. Tennessee and Pittsburgh are on bye, which takes Cam Ward, Tony Pollard, Calvin Ridley, Rico Dowdle, DK Metcalf and Pat Freiermuth off the board, and those two rosters are the ones freshly cut loose in most leagues at this stage. Baltimore is the trap: Derrick Henry, Zay Flowers and Mark Andrews all look like names and all project under their guillotine lines with a third-string rookie throwing 21 times a game. The floor plays are the double-digit target receivers and the backs who catch, so Smith-Njigba at 11.1 targets a game, Lamb at 11.5, Nacua at 12.3, Bowers at 10.3 and McBride at 10.8. If you are near the cut, take the volume and leave the touchdown-dependent fliers to the teams with a cushion. Note that the guillotine lines sit three to four points under the PPR lines, which is why three players on this card are a sit in one format and a start in the other.

Guillotine FAAB

Budget. You are past the halfway mark and two byes means two rosters' worth of startable players are sitting on benches rather than on waivers, so the pool is thin again. Spend 20 to 30 percent of what is left on a player who starts for you every week from here, because the weeks you are buying are now a smaller number than the weeks you have already played. Cap anything you are stashing at 5 percent. If you are in the bottom three, invert it: a one-week starter is worth more than a rest-of-season asset you will not be around to use.

What is worth a real bid off a chopped roster. A back who has taken the carries and the goal-line work, not one of the two, because committee backs do not clear ten points in this format. A receiver who is first or second in his team's order with a double-digit target game already on the board. A tight end with a target share above 18 percent, because the position still decides weeks. What is not worth a bid: a kicker on an offense attempting fewer than two field goals a game, a receiver whose only good week was a touchdown on three catches, and any Baltimore pass catcher until the quarterback situation settles.

Targets, in order. Mike Washington Jr. leads, and Raiders or not he is the week's clearest role change: 25 carries to Ashton Jeanty's two. Tyler Allgeier is the only healthy Arizona back with Jeremiyah Love on injured reserve and Bam Knight in concussion protocol. Jonah Coleman out-touched J.K. Dobbins 15 to seven with RJ Harvey on injured reserve. Then the pass catchers: Adonai Mitchell took nine targets for 142 yards last week, Makai Lemon has drawn six or more targets every week since Week 3, and Harold Fannin Jr. drew 12 targets for his first double-digit game. Mason Taylor is still free in most leagues at 10 percent rostered.

How calls are graded

Every call is locked at its player's kickoff and graded on full-PPR points from the official box score: a point per reception, a tenth of a point per rushing or receiving yard, one per 25 passing yards, six per rushing or receiving touchdown, four per passing touchdown, minus two per interception or lost fumble. Two-point conversions and return touchdowns aren't counted.

Kickers: three per field goal, one more from 40 to 49 yards and two more from 50 or longer, one per extra point, minus one per miss. Defenses: one per sack, two per interception or fumble recovery, six per defensive or return touchdown, two per safety, plus points allowed (the opponent's final score): shutout 10, 1 to 6 is 7, 7 to 13 is 4, 14 to 20 is 1, 21 to 27 is 0, 28 to 34 is minus 1, 35 or more is minus 4.

A start cashes if the player reaches the line for his position; a sit cashes if he stays under it. PPR lines: QB 18, RB 14, WR 14, TE 10, K 8, DEF 8. Guillotine lines are survival floors: QB 15, RB 10, WR 10, TE 7, K 7, DEF 6.

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