We’ve spent hours researching the web’s most popular Week 10 start’em sit’em analysis and have selected the best takes to help you set your lineup, in addition to the best bites from 5th Down’s team.
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5 Up in Week 10
Jameis Winston (QB, TB)
“Winston has 300 yards and/or multiple touchdown passes in six straight games after a lousy start to the season. The Bucs are No. 7 in passing offense. Winston does lead the league in interceptions along with Baker Mayfield, but unlike Mayfield, Winston is compiling passing numbers throughout the box score. Winston couldn’t ask for much better of a Week 10 draw. The Cardinals are 31st in fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks, 29th in overall pass defense, 28th in pass-defense DVOA, and dead last in the NFL with just two interceptions.” — Nick Mensio, Rotoworld
David Montgomery (RB, CHI)
“After receiving only four touches in Week 7, David Montgomery has been the focal point of the Bears offense. The rookie running back has had the two best games of his young career, turning 48 touches into 223 total yards and three touchdowns. He now faces the league’s 31st ranked defense as the Detroit Lions visit Soldier Field on Sunday.” — Joshua Mutters, 5th Down Fantasy
“The rookie back has actually seen the same target share as Tarik Cohen in games that project like Sunday’s, making Montgomery an RB1 in Week 10.” — Dalton Del Don, Yahoo! Sports
Devin Singletary (RB, BUF)
“He played 67% and 66% of the offensive snaps in Weeks 8 and 9, respectively, and had 20 touches in the latter (a single-game high for a Bills player this season). He’s even taken over as the team’s passing-down back with T.J. Yeldon a healthy scratch each of the past three weeks.” — Tristan H. Cockcroft, ESPN.com
“I hope he continues to get around 20 carries, and he now has seven catches on 10 targets in his past two outings. This week, he gets a Browns defense that has allowed a running back to score in three of their past four games, with six guys gaining at least 74 total yards over that span.” — Jamey Eisenberg, CBS Sports
Christian Kirk (WR, ARI)
“Throw the ball hot this week, Kyler Murray. Why? Because Kirk can feast on a Tampa Bay defense that is allowing 135 yards per game on passes of less than 10 yards (seventh-most in the league). And that meshes with the film on Kirk.” — Matt Bowen, ESPN.com
“Christian Kirk is healthy for the first time in a long time and is a prime candidate for a breakout game against the atrocious pass defense of the Buccaneers. The Bucs allow over 293 yards per game in the air and have allowed 19 receiving touchdowns on the season.” — Joshua Mutters, 5th Down Fantasy
Zach Pascal (WR, IND)
“Pascal is looking like the last man standing with T.Y. Hilton sidelined with a calf injury for three-to-four weeks and Parris Campbell set to miss multiple weeks with a hand fracture suffered in Week 9. Pascal has an excellent matchup this week against a Dolphins team that has been like a cheat code for opponents in fantasy. Expect him to see a high target share in a receiving corps bereft of competition.” — Samantha Previte, NY Post
Trust or Bust? Damien Williams (RB, KC)
Trust: “Williams saw just under 72% of the snaps against Minnesota, the highest rate any Kansas City back has seen this season, easily out-snapping both LeSean McCoy (10%) and Darrel Williams (18%). Damien’s 14 opportunities weren’t amazing, but he turned them into 128 yards from scrimmage and a score — easily his best performance of the year …” — Kenyatta Storin, NumberFire.com
Bust: “He has faced a multitude of issues this season including injuries, backfield committee’s and a lack of touches, but ultimately the biggest thing working against Williams is the philosophy of the Chiefs offense. Kansas City wins the majority of its games through the air and with the big-armed heroics of their quarterback. The team’s backfield is often left to pick up the scraps of goal-line tackles and trick plays.” — Derek McCauley, 5th Down Fantasy
5th Down Readers Decide:
5 Down in Week 10
Matt Ryan (QB, ATL)
“Since allowing 8.9 yards per attempt, 10 total touchdowns, and 92.1 fantasy points to signal-callers Weeks 1-3, the Saints have not only righted the ship, they’ve enforced a strict embargo on the competition. Over their past five contests, no quarterback has eclipsed 19 fantasy points against them. Giving up 5.9 yards per attempt, 212.2 passing yards per game, four touchdowns and the fifth-fewest fantasy points during that stretch, Marshon Lattimore (44.8 passer rating allowed last five) and Co. have become one of the most feared secondaries in the league.” — Brad Evans, Yahoo! Sports
David Johnson (RB, ARI)
“The ongoing cycle of drama surrounding the availability of David Johnson has been an annoying one for fantasy owners (to say the very least). From the Arizona Cardinals Twitter account mocking owners for starting Johnson in a scoreless Week 8 game to the electric arrival of Kenyan Drake in Week 9, Johnson is one of fantasy’s most confusing superstars heading into Week 10 … We advise owners to monitor this situation closely, but we lean towards sitting him against a tough Buccaneers run defense.” — Derek McCauley, 5th Down Fantasy
Joe Mixon (RB, CIN)
“The last time we saw Mixon before Cincinnati’s bye in Week 9 he actually looked good against the Rams in London with 17 carries for 66 yards, as well as four catches for 11 yards and a touchdown on four targets. He’s now scored a receiving touchdown in consecutive games coming into Week 10 against the Ravens. But he played Baltimore once this year already in Week 6 and finished with eight carries for 10 yards, as well as two catches for 29 yards on three targets. I’d only use Mixon as a flex option this week in most leagues.” — Jamey Eisenberg, CBS Sports
“He’s gotten 2.8 YPC at home and could be leaving the field often on passing downs Sunday with the Bengals as near two-touchdown underdogs with fourth-round rookie Ryan Finley making his NFL debut. “ — Dalton Del Don, Yahoo! Sports
Tyler Boyd (WR, CIN)
“At least we knew Dalton would lean on Boyd as a bail-out option. Maybe Finley will too since he did lean on his slot receiver at N.C. State, but A.J. Green’s return is sure to take some targets away. I haven’t even brought up the matchup against the Ravens, which isn’t easy. It’s not like he’s been great anyway with 12 or fewer PPR points in 5 of his past 6 outings — and single digits in half.” — Dave Richard, CBS Sports
JuJu Smith-Schuster (WR, PIT)
“JuJu is averaging about four catches and 57 yards per game. If anything, against a talented Rams defense and an individual matchup with Jalen Ramsey, he’ll put up less than that.” — Billy Heyen, sportingnews.com
“With only one end zone target since Week 4 and fewer than 20 receiving yards in three of his past five games, I can’t start Smith-Schuster versus the Rams’ defense.” — Matt Bowen, ESPN.com
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