RB CAR IR Week 3 · PPR

Start or sit Jonathon Brooks?

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.

Sit

Listed IR — sit him this week.

Sit call: Jonathon Brooks projects for 6.2 PPR points this week, ranked #36 among RBs by our projection model. @CLE is a soft matchup for RBs — the model applies a +1% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 39.5 — 87% of the 45.6 league average for week 3.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Jonathon Brooks projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 6.5
2 6.4
3 this week 6.2
4 6.0
5 —
6 6.6
7 6.7
8 6.5
9 5.6
10 6.3
11 6.9
12 6.7
13 6.1
14 6.3
15 7.5
16 6.0
17 5.7
18 6.6

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