TE NYG Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Isaiah Likely?

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

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

Borderline call: Isaiah Likely projects for 7.2 PPR points this week, ranked #24 among TEs by our projection model. @WAS is a soft matchup for TEs — the model applies a +11% 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

Isaiah Likely projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 6.3
2 6.6
3 6.6
4 7.2
5 this week 7.2
6 6.1
7 6.1
8 —
9 5.5
10 7.1
11 6.8
12 6.9
13 6.9
14 6.7
15 6.0
16 6.4
17 6.1
18 5.5

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