Week 1 Starts & Sits - Fantasy Index Podcast

And suddenly, the wait is very nearly over. With the NFL season opener less than 24 hours away, Colt and Luke sit down to talk about some of the players they're leaning toward plugging into fantasy lineups, and a few they'd prefer to let sit this one out. The green flag has dropped and we are underway with our first starts & sits of 2024!

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Tank Dell was off

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The results weren't what we were looking for, and seeing Diggs monopolize the short stuff made it doubly frustrating. But Dell saw downfield targets and air yards that were dead even with Nico Collins - I'm actually marking him *up* a little on what I saw from Houston in Week 1 (Luke here by the way, proud Dell skeptic).

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Bateman take was god awful

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It was indeed. Seeing Lamar Jackson both go relatively pass-happy with 41 attempts and 20 of those flowing through "backups" Isaiah Likely and Justice Hill was well outside our forecast here; I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's been awhile since we saw a Ravens running back catch six balls in a game. Bateman did see five looks though, and managed to avert a total disaster with that nifty 37-yarder to put the Ravens on the doorstep at the end, and Lamar targeted him in the endzone on another deep ball. But no doubt about it: Likely's emergence is real, and I'm revising Bateman's targets back down.