Fantasy football: Start-em, sit-em players for Week 3
By Jay Marsdale
Start-em: Antonio Brown (PIT) @ Chicago
No one is ever sitting Antonio Brown. However, this is one week where you can expect a performance like Week 1 and not like the one Brown showed us in Week 2. The only thing that might stop Brown from breaking fantasy football scoreboards in this one will be Pittsburgh trying not to run up the score.
Week 2 was a surprisingly quiet week for Brown. He caught five of his eleven targets for only 62 yards. The eleven targets in both Weeks 1 and 2 are encouraging, but we expect more from a top-three receiver in the NFL.
Brown is also yet to find the end zone in the 2017 season. I think that changes this week. He is far too fast and talented a receiver to be held three straight weeks without a score. I’m predicting at least one touchdown this week and maybe more.
Antonio Brown seeing eleven targets from quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is a lock to produce for your fantasy football teams Week 3. Especially with Martavis Bryant proving last week that he is back to being the deep threat he was before his suspensions. Brown will play big in Week 3.
Other options: Doug Baldwin (SEA) @ Tennessee and Kelvin Benjamin (CAR) vs. New Orleans