RB LAC Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Keaton Mitchell?

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.

Sit

RB65 — below the ~28 started in 12-team leagues.

Sit call: Keaton Mitchell projects for 2.1 PPR points this week, ranked #65 among RBs by our projection model. vs DEN is a tough matchup for RBs — the model applies a -15% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 44.5 — 94% of the 47.2 league average for week 5.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Keaton Mitchell projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 2.9
2 2.5
3 2.8
4 2.1
5 this week 2.1
6 2.2
7 —
8 2.5
9 2.4
10 2.6
11 2.8
12 2.2
13 2.6
14 2.6
15 2.7
16 2.7
17 2.2
18 2.1

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