Start or Sit These Players on Monday Night to Win Week 6 Fantasy

I will be with you every step of the way with recommendations on who to start and who to sit for every Monday Night Football matchup. With out further ado, let’s make the moves required to wrap up your Week 6 victory.

1. Quarterback

Start or Sit These Players on Monday Night to Win Week 6 Fantasy
Start or Sit These Players on Monday Night to Win Week 6 Fantasy


Josh Allen – Buffalo Bills

There are some players that you will employ on your fantasy rosters week in and week out regardless of matchup or scenario. One of those players is Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen. Allen took a major step forward last season and became an every week starter. After a slow start to the season in which he averaged 17.43 points in the first two weeks, Allen has bounced back to elite QB status the past three weeks.

Josh Allen was the QB18 through 2 weeks, and QB2 in Weeks 3-5. Life is hard enough full of difficult daily decisions. Starting Josh Allen shouldn’t be one of them. Start Allen with absolute confidence weekly. The fact that the Titans are 4th worst in the league against opposing QBs just makes this opportunity even juicer.

Ryan Tannehill – Tennessee Titans

Ryan Tannehill emerged as a week-in week-out starting QB after he won the job in Tennessee. From Week 7 through the end of the year in 2019, Tannehill was QB3 averaging 22.50 points a game. In 2020, Tannehill finished the season as QB7 averaging 21.90 points per game. This season after five weeks, he sits at QB20, averaging 17.21 points a game.

Facing the Bills this week, you likely have to start him if you roster him, but I would advise against it if you have a viable option to do so. I have Tannehill ranked 14th this week. Starting him won’t kill you, but he won’t win you this week either. I would prefer to start Taylor Heinicke, Joe Burrow, and Sam Darnold this week.

2. Running Back

Start or Sit These Players on Monday Night to Win Week 6 Fantasy
Start or Sit These Players on Monday Night to Win Week 6 Fantasy

Zack Moss / Devin Singletary – Buffalo Bills

After being a somewhat surprising healthy scratch in Week 1, Bills RB Zack Moss has been a consistent PPR producing back averaging 14.45 points a game. His high on the season is 18.10 and his low is 12.10. If you start Zack Moss you can bank on double digit fantasy points. The Titans are yielding 22.5 points a game to opposing backs, so I am starting Moss here without question.

Devin Singletary finished Week 1 as RB29 with 11 PPR points. Since then his average has dropped to 8.4 points a game and down to 5.5 over the past three outings. Devin Singletary is being phased out of the Bills’ lineup and should be phased out of you lineup as well. Sit Devin this week.

Derrick Henry / Jeremy – Tennessee Titans

Josh Allen, as I mentioned earlier, is one of those set it and forget it fantasy assets. Derrick Henry might very well be the poster child. Henry is a monster, a back that is in your lineup weekly regardless of who, what, or where he is playing. Last season, Derrick Henry became the 8th running back in NFL history to rush for over 2,000 yards in a single season. Henry finished with 2,027 yards on 397 touches and scored 17 times.

In 2021, he is on pace for 530 touches, which is pure insanity. The best part of rostering Derrick Henry is his work in the passing game. Henry is 5 catches away from tying his career high of 19 receptions and its only Week 6. You don’t need me to tell you that Derrick Henry is a slam dunk start each and every week.

You also don’t need me to tell you that the RB position has been hit hard by injury. Jeremy McNichols as a result can be dropped into your roster as a desperation flex option. He is sitting at RB42 on the season with an average of 6.3 points a game. His work has come in the passing game, and in a game that the Titans are almost certainly going to be trailing in, he’s not a terrible option.

It’s possible Buffalo blows the doors off of Tennessee this Monday night, and that McNichols sees an increase in work as a result. Sooner or later the Titans need to pull work away from Derrick Henry, and in a blow out loss that is the perfect time to do so. This is a desperation start only, and I would prefer you keep McNichols on the bench. All I am saying is I do see a path to relevance if you are stuck.

3. Wide Receiver

Stefon Diggs / Emmanuel Sanders / Cole Beasley / Gabriel Davis – Buffalo Bills

The Tennessee Titans through five weeks have given up 1,186 passing yards and 8 touchdowns to opposing wide receivers. Tennessee is yielding 49.8 points a game to the WR, worst in the league. If the Tennessee Titans secondary was a restaurant, it would be an all-you-can-eat establishment.

Start Stefon Diggs, start Emmanuel Sanders, and if you are really stuck, start Cole Beasley. Gabe Davis may score in this one, but he is not a big enough part of this offense to consider. Davis might score, but if you start him you are banking on it.

This game shapes up as a “get right game” for Diggs. After breaking out in a massive way in 2020, his 2021 production has been seen as a disappointment. Last season’s WR3 is currently sitting at WR25. Diggs is averaging 14.3 points a game this season, while in 2020, his lowest scoring week was 14.6 and that was Week 17 in which he played a half of football. Look for Diggs to score 20+ points for the first time this season.

Part the reason that Diggs has regressed this season is the arrival of Manny Sanders in Buffalo. Sanders is basically a better version of what John Brown brought this offense a season ago. Sanders in five week is averaging 15.2 points a game and is the WR20. Against this defense, starting Sanders is a must.

Cole Beasley and Gabriel Davis are dart throws for me even in this amazing matchup. I see this one being a big night for Diggs, Sanders, and perhaps Dawson Knox. There really is no need to start Beasley or Davis unless injuries and Sunday scratches force your hand.

A.J. Brown / Julio Jones

Most weeks I would have to work to come up with enough words to tell you to start both A.J. Brown and Julio Jones. This week I might struggle to communicate why you should sit them both. I know what you are saying, always start your studs. Now that is a great rule to follow if the players you are referring to are studs. Brown on the season is averaging 7.3 PPR points a game and Julio Jones is averaging 10.8. Simply put, neither are behaving like a stud.

Brown is battling a hamstring injury and last week caught three of six targets for 38 yards against Jacksonville. Julio Jones had a good day in Week 2 versus Seattle, (6th worst defense vs WR) hauling in 6 of his 8 targets for 128 yards. In his other two contests he has totaled 6 catches for 76 yards. Brown and Julio combined have scored one touchdown this season.

On Monday, the Titans WRs face a Buffalo defense that has given up a total of 63 receptions, 558 yards, and two touchdowns to opposing wide receivers in five games this season. The Bills are the third best unit in football against teams WRs and they have faced, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, and Washington in addition to Houston and Miami this season. The best WR finish the Bills have allowed season to date is WR26 to Kansas City Chief, Tyreek Hill.

If there is any way you can avoid starting either of these wide receivers, then I suggest you should. When you factor in the struggles the QB is having, the injuries they are coming back from, and the quality of this Buffalo defense, it all adds up to staying away.

4. Tight End

Start or Sit These Players on Monday Night to Win Week 6 Fantasy
Start or Sit These Players on Monday Night to Win Week 6 Fantasy

Dawson Knox – Buffalo Bills

Dawson has been amazing, this season. He is sitting at TE3 and averaging 14.8 PPR points a week. His pace is likely not sustainable, but this isn’t a pace he needs to sustain to be a startable TE. The Titans have allowed the fewest points per game to the position this season (3.6). One of the reasons for this is the opponents are too busy shredding the Titans D with their wide receivers. Another reason is their opponents; Arizona, Seattle, Indianapolis, New York Jets and Jacksonville—not exactly a murderers row of TE talent. Dawson Knox is hot right now, and there is no reason to sit him now.

Anthony Firkser – Tennessee Titans

There was a lot of Anthony Firkser hype this offseason. Jonnu Smith was off to New England, and AJ Brown was at one point the only WR under contract on the roster. Well the Titans added some WRs, namely Julio Jones, and Firkser has played like, well he has played like Anthony Firkser.

When A.J. Brown and Julio Jones were out of the lineup in Week 4, Firkser was targeted on five occasions. Those five targets turned into 3 catches for 23 yards and a TE27 finish. Buffalo is allowing 10.4 points to the opposing TE, and are coming off a game in which they gave up 17.7 of the 51.8 points they have allowed to Travis Kelce. In their four contests against TEs not named Kelce, they have given up 34.1 points in four games. There really is no reason to start Firkser in this one.

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