WR TB Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Emeka Egbuka?

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.

Start

#16 WR projection this week — comfortable start.

Start call: Emeka Egbuka projects for 11.6 PPR points this week, ranked #16 among WRs by our projection model. @DAL is a soft matchup for WRs — the model applies a +15% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 52.5 — 111% of the 47.2 league average for week 5.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Emeka Egbuka projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 8.8
2 8.5
3 8.0
4 9.8
5 this week 11.6
6 10.4
7 8.7
8 10.1
9 10.5
10 —
11 10.6
12 8.7
13 9.0
14 10.8
15 9.1
16 10.1
17 9.5
18 9.1

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