WR CHI Week 3 · PPR

Start or sit Luther Burden?

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

WR74 — below the ~34 started in 12-team leagues.

Sit call: Luther Burden projects for 3.7 PPR points this week, ranked #74 among WRs by our projection model. vs PHI is a tough matchup for WRs — the model applies a -11% 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

Luther Burden projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 3.9
2 3.5
3 this week 3.7
4 4.1
5 4.3
6 4.5
7 4.1
8 3.7
9 4.3
10 —
11 4.0
12 4.9
13 4.2
14 4.1
15 3.7
16 4.4
17 4.6
18 3.5

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