Fantasy Football: Starting Player, Place Player: Dak Prescott, Tony Pollard, D'Onta Foreman (2024)

Should you start them or bench them? Decisions about whether to start or bench them in fantasy football can be a pain. While it feels great to make the right decision and effortlessly ride to fantasy glory, it hurts just as much when someone on the bench freaks out. You can use our Who Should I Start? tool to get advice from fantasy football experts as you make your lineup decisions. And you can also sync your fantasy football league for free with our My Playbook tool to get customized advice, rankings, and analysis.

Let’s take a look at some polarizing players and the recommendations of the Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR).

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Dak Prescott (QB – DAL) | QB10 for Week 3

Quarterbacks whose ECR is higher than Prescott:

CJ Stroud (HOU)
Jayden Daniels (WAS)
Anthony Richardson (IND)

Quarterbacks with a lower ECR than Prescott:

Brock Purdy (SF)
Jared Goff (DET)
Baker Mayfield (TB)

Some of the most popular “Who should I start?” searches of the week:

Dak Prescott or Jared Goff: 80% of experts chose Prescott
Dak Prescott or Baker Mayfield: 76% of experts chose Prescott
Dak Prescott or Brock Purdy: 65% of experts chose Prescott

Tony Pollard (RB – TEN) | RB17 for Week 3

The ECR is higher for running backs than for Pollard:

Kyren Williams (LAR)
Zach Charbonnet (SEA)
Travis Etienne (JAX)

The ECR for running backs is lower than for Pollard:

Brian Robinson Jr. (WAS)
Rachaad Weiss (TB)
David Montgomery (DET)

Some of the most popular “Who should I start?” searches of the week:

Tony Pollard or Brian Robinson: 67% of experts chose Pollard
Tony Pollard or Rachaad White: 71% of the experts chose Pollard
Tony Pollard or David Montgomery: 69% of experts chose Pollard

D’Onta Foreman (RB – CLE) | RB36/Flex92 for week 3

Flex players have a higher ECR than Foreman:

Ezekiel Elliott (RB – DAL)
Rom Odunze (WR – CHI)
Jakobi Meyers (WR – LV)

For Flex players, the ECR is lower than for Foreman:

Keon Coleman (WR – BUF)
Andrei Iosivas (WR – CIN)
Rico Dowdle (RB – DAL)

Some of the most popular “Who should I start?” searches of the week:

D’Onta Foreman or Darnell Mooney: 61% of experts chose Foreman
D’Onta Foreman or Gabe Davis: 57% of the experts chose Davis
D’Onta Foreman or Ty Chandler: 63% of experts chose Foreman

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