QB ATL Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Tua Tagovailoa?

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

#27 QB projection — on the borderline of the ~18 started in 12-team superflex.

Borderline call: Tua Tagovailoa projects for 13.0 PPR points this week, ranked #27 among QBs by our projection model. vs BAL is a soft matchup for QBs — the model applies a +4% 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

Tua Tagovailoa projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 13.0
2 10.8
3 11.9
4 11.0
5 this week 13.0
6 13.1
7 13.1
8 13.8
9 13.4
10 11.9
11 —
12 10.4
13 13.1
14 10.9
15 13.9
16 13.8
17 11.2
18 11.0

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