TE WAS Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Chig Okonkwo?

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.

Borderline

#20 TE projection — on the borderline of the ~13 started in 12-team leagues.

Borderline call: Chig Okonkwo projects for 8.0 PPR points this week, ranked #20 among TEs by our projection model. vs NYG is a tough matchup for TEs — the model applies a -7% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 48.5 — 103% of the 47.2 league average for week 5.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Chig Okonkwo projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 7.4
2 8.7
3 9.1
4 9.6
5 this week 8.0
6 9.6
7 —
8 7.3
9 8.5
10 7.9
11 9.8
12 9.7
13 8.9
14 8.2
15 7.5
16 7.7
17 9.1
18 8.2

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