WR PHI Out Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit DeVonta Smith?

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: DeVonta Smith projects for 11.3 PPR points this week, ranked #19 among WRs by our projection model. @JAX is a neutral matchup for WRs — the model applies a 0% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 45.5 — 96% of the 47.2 league average for week 5.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

DeVonta Smith projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 12.6
2 12.4
3 12.8
4 11.6
5 this week 11.3
6 10.1
7 13.2
8 12.4
9 12.3
10 —
11 12.5
12 13.4
13 11.3
14 13.1
15 10.1
16 9.3
17 12.0
18 12.3

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