RB SF Week 3 · PPR

Start or sit Christian McCaffrey?

The verdict comes from our weekly projection model: last season's opportunity-based xFP/g shrunk toward the position mean, then adjusted for role, injury status, the opponent's fantasy points allowed and the Vegas game total vs the league average.

Start

#3 RB projection this week — comfortable start.

Start call: Christian McCaffrey projects for 18.6 PPR points this week, ranked #3 among RBs by our projection model. vs ARI is a soft matchup for RBs — the model applies a +13% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 46.5 — 102% of the 45.6 league average for week 3.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Christian McCaffrey projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 16.9
2 18.2
3 this week 18.6
4 13.9
5 14.4
6 19.0
7 16.9
8
9 17.0
10 17.8
11 15.1
12 14.2
13 18.3
14 16.3
15 14.3
16 14.7
17 16.9
18 18.5

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