QB CLE Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Shedeur Sanders?

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

QB35 — below the ~18 started in 12-team superflex.

Sit call: Shedeur Sanders projects for 4.9 PPR points this week, ranked #35 among QBs by our projection model. @NYJ is a soft matchup for QBs — the model applies a +14% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 39.5 — 84% of the 47.2 league average for week 5.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Shedeur Sanders projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 4.4
2 5.1
3 3.9
4 4.8
5 this week 4.9
6 4.8
7 5.2
8 5.2
9 4.3
10 4.1
11 —
12 4.7
13 5.1
14 4.7
15 5.1
16 4.9
17 4.8
18 5.1

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