WR MIN Out Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Justin Jefferson?

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: Justin Jefferson projects for 12.8 PPR points this week, ranked #9 among WRs by our projection model. @NO is a tough matchup for WRs — the model applies a -4% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 44.5 — 94% of the 47.2 league average for week 5.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Justin Jefferson projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 14.0
2 15.1
3 13.9
4 13.0
5 this week 12.8
6 —
7 15.9
8 15.3
9 12.3
10 14.0
11 14.4
12 14.6
13 12.5
14 13.3
15 15.3
16 14.9
17 13.7
18 15.1

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