QB SEA Out Week 10 · PPR

Start or sit Sam Darnold?

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 Out — sit him this week.

Sit call: Sam Darnold projects for 13.3 PPR points this week, ranked #21 among QBs by our projection model. @LV is a tough matchup for QBs — the model applies a -1% swing to his projection.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Sam Darnold projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 12.5
2 13.5
3 15.2
4 11.3
5 14.0
6 12.0
7 12.9
8 14.0
9 13.7
10 this week 13.3
11 —
12 13.8
13 15.3
14 14.4
15 12.5
16 13.5
17 12.0
18 13.3

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