WR SEA Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Jaxon Smith-Njigba?

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.

Start

#2 WR projection this week — comfortable start.

Start call: Jaxon Smith-Njigba projects for 16.7 PPR points this week, ranked #2 among WRs by our projection model. vs SF is a soft matchup for WRs — 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

Jaxon Smith-Njigba projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 15.1
2 15.3
3 17.2
4 14.7
5 this week 16.7
6 14.2
7 14.8
8 17.4
9 15.5
10 16.6
11 —
12 16.4
13 18.1
14 16.9
15 14.0
16 15.9
17 14.3
18 15.8

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