Start Em / Sit Em - Week 5 - Thursday Game

By Brad Kruse

In this Start Em / Sit Em column each week, I'm looking to find some fringe players that you might consider starting each week and comment based on their matchups. Early on, I'll base my selection of candidates on where they were with respect to ADP. I'm not going to try to pad my stats by suggestin your start Drew Brees each week, but instead trying to dig deep and find some nuggets for players to avoid or to go after. These are coin flip guys and if I can finish the year at better than 60% I'll consider it a success. My metrics to get the start decision are: QB 20 pts or more, RB, WR or TE need to score 12 pts or more for a successful endorsement. Defense/Special Teams should put in 8 points or more to get those picks right. I'll look at ~4-6 players on each Thursday night's game and ~ 6 players for the rest of the week to get you going. Good Luck this year!

Player	Pos	Team	Opp	Start/Sit	Comment
Davante Adams	WR	GNB	MIN	Start	I missed on Adams last week, but I think the reasoning was sound. Boykin was hurt which did increase Adams' snaps. He played over 70% of the snaps. The problem was Jordy and Cobb got all the action. So I'm going to try this again. Boykin again is unlikely to play on Thursday. Minnesota is susceptible to the pass. I like Adams' chances to be involved.
Eddie Lacy	RB	GNB	MIN	SIT	Lacy has really struggled out of the gate. He salvaged last week with a TD, but the word out of GB is Starks would not go without a touch going forward - he'll be more invovled. That, combined with a short weak of rest for Lacy and Minnesota being a difficult run defense, look for other options if you have them.
Matt Asiata	RB	MIN	GNB	Start	Continue to ride Asiata. The matchup is good and McKinnon got banged a bit with his heavier workload in week 4. That should assure Asiata of getting 15 touches. He's good in the passing game and he's a load at the goal line. Look for double digit points again.