RB NO IR Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Travis Etienne?

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 IR — sit him this week.

Sit call: Travis Etienne projects for 12.6 PPR points this week, ranked #16 among RBs by our projection model. vs MIN is a tough matchup for RBs — the model applies a -7% 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

Travis Etienne projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 13.3
2 14.9
3 14.1
4 13.9
5 this week 12.6
6 15.4
7 12.5
8 —
9 14.2
10 15.2
11 13.7
12 16.1
13 13.9
14 15.2
15 14.4
16 15.9
17 14.1
18 14.4

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