Week 11 Fantasy Football Lineup Breakdown: MUST START & SIT Players | 2025 Fantasy Football Advice

It’s Week 11 of the 2025 Fantasy Football season, and we’re breaking down the MUST-START and SIT players you need to know before setting your lineups! Jamey Eisenberg, Dave Richard, and Heath Cummings on CBS Sports HQ to give their expert fantasy football advice on who belongs in your lineup — and who should stay on the bench.

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Want to dominate your league and get Fantasy Football bragging rights? Join host Adam Aizer, analysts Dave Richard, Jamey Eisenberg, Heath Cummings, and the rest of our crew throughout the year. Start or Sit, Waiver Wire, Buy or Sell, Grade the Trade and mailbag from your emails and #AskFFT tweets. This is the only podcast you’ll need to win your league.

Now, the Eagles coming off a huge win at Green Bay, but uh it wasn’t thanks to the offense. AJ Brown not happy with that 10point output while playing Madden a few days ago had this message for his fantasy owners. I promise you, you getting you might get 200 and I ain’t in trouble. If you got me on fantasy, man, get rid of me. You’d be stupid to do that. But Jamie, guys, is he a start of the week in any capacity? He is not, but you’re still going to start him. Hopefully, we get a little squeaky wheel narrative going. It’s a good matchup against the Lions. And, you know, as Nick Seriani said, he’s still getting his opportunities. He just is going to have to take advantage of them to help us. And this is a good matchup because of how the Lions play defense and hopefully how AJ Brown will operate. Let’s talk about the start of the week, and that’s Justin Herbert. And he’s got a great matchup on the table taking on the Jacksonville Jaguars. number three in terms of most fantasy points allowed to opposing quarterbacks. I don’t think Herbert will have to worry about the pass rush because the Jaguars really don’t have any. And what we’ve seen from Jacksonville, six quarterbacks in a row with at least 21.7 fantasy points allowed, three in a row over 31 fantasy points. Herbert has been very good. Prior to last week, he had hit 22.8 fantasy points in five of his last six games. So, I think we’ll see him come out and play at a very high level. We all have him as at least a top eight quarterback. It’s just a great matchup. I don’t think Kamani Vidal will have a dominant game like we saw last week against the Steelers because you know what? It’s every other week for Kamani Vidal. So, that’s kind of been the problem. So, we’re on the odd week here in terms of his production, but I love the setup for Justin Herbert. Hopefully, he delivers and we’ll see how the Chargers do here with uh being favorites on the road. All right, let’s talk about some other starts and sits for this week. I’ll give you mine first. Going with Aaron Jones and TZ Johnson as two guys that I’m very excited about for week number 11. Looking at the setup for these two guys in particular, Jones owns the city of Chicago. In his last 13 games against the Did I say something wrong? No, you did not. Continue. Okay. Uh, in in the case of what he’s done in the last 13 games, he’s averaging over 18 PPR points per game against them. And in the case of TZ Johnson, 15.8 PPR points or more in two of his last three. It’s been touchdown dependent, three touchdown in those three games. Uh, but I do think the narrative that I see unfolding here for Tampa Bay is that the Buffalo Bills will be playing with the lead. The Bucks will be chasing points. We’ll see an uptick in targets for TZ Johnson and I think he comes through as a top 20 wide receiver for week number 11. Dave, let’s talk about some guys you like here and you like one guy in particular that I’m curious about and Troy Franklin. Is this a better than Courtland Sutton situation or is this like both? He’s the number one wide receiver for the Denver Broncos now. I’m convinced of it. He’s seen more targets not only on the season but certainly in the last few weeks than Courtland Sutton. Four touchdowns in his last four games. Courtland Sutton has four on the season. this guy is doing more. He’s more explosive than Sutton and I think he’s going to continue to get targets in a game where the Broncos need to throw the football. A JK Dobbins isn’t playing and B I like RJ Harvey but I don’t like him any more than a lowend number two type of fantasy running back. So I would start him but I’m starting him over guys like Kenneth Walker, David Montgomery, Titans running backs, Jordan Mason, you know, the guys that have been really disappointing. I’ll take the chance on RJ Harvey. Troy Franklin’s been outstanding for fantasy managers and I think he’s going to continue to get chances even against Kansas City. I also like Aaron Rodgers. Old guy, but he’s taking on Cincinnati. We know the track record of quarterbacks against the Bengals this year. It is bountiful and I think Aaron Rogers takes advantage. I do feel like it could be a little bit more of a Jaylen Warren type game. I’ve got Warren as a top 10 running back. Everybody’s starting him, but I think Aaron Rogers kind of a top 12ish type of quarterback. I actually think it’s a tough decision between Aaron Rogers and Patrick Mahomes this week and I’ve got that decision to make. Right now Mahomes is in my lineup. It sounds crazy, but it really comes down to Rogers against Cincinnati. Could be a high-scoring game. Could be a game where Rogers looks to bounce back. It would be nice to see Rogers lean on DK Metaf who’s a guy that you’re highlighting this week as one of your starts. I think you have to start DK Metaf despite the fact that it’s been really bad lately. Just 41 receiving yards in his last two games. Hasn’t been over 60 receiving yards since October the 12th. But it’s the Cincinnati Bengals. The Steelers have an implied total of 29.5 27.5 in this game. One of the highest on the slate. The Bengals have been arguably the worst defense in the last decade of the NFL so far this season. Generally, when the Steelers score touchdowns, it’s Aaron Rogers passing touchdowns. I think one of those will go to DK Metaf in this game. Hopefully, he can get you 70 yards as well. I’m also starting Daltton Schultz. And if you just looked at Daltton Schultz’s game log, see this really strange thing. four of his last five games he has at least 11 PPR points. The only week he didn’t was the week we told everybody to start it. He’s going I just believe his connection with it looks like Davis Mills is going to start. He has a great connection with Davis Mills. He has 19 targets over his last two games. He is a top seven tight end for me this week. It’s exciting to see what’s what’s happening there and Davis Mills leaning on him quite a bit last week and so Nico Collins is the one and and basically Daltton Schultz has become the 1A. So it’s been fun for fantasy managers to benefit with Dalton Schultz. Sorry, let’s go from the positive to negative and talk about some players that we’re looking to avoid in week number 11. I’ll go first with this one here. And I’m nervous about a couple of Seahawks here. You got Sam Darnold and Ken Walker, both taking on a very good Rams defense. In terms of Darnold, he’s obviously been one of the better quarterbacks in reality. In fantasy, however, he’s been under 20 fantasy points in five of nine starts. He’s got six turnovers in his last three games. I do hope and this kind of plays into why Walker is probably going to struggle that we see Sam Darnold throwing a little bit but this is such a great week for quarterbacks that he’s an easy guy to get away from. I would start to a tongue of Aloa over him, Marcus Mariota over him. I still would even consider starting Jacobe Br over him without Marvin Harrison and I also like Gino Smith better than him as well. So tough week for Darnold I think to get to where he needs to get to and I do think this Rams defense obviously gonna make him struggle. Only three quarterbacks over 20 fantasy points against the Rams so far this season. In the case of Walker, he has not scored a touchdown since week three. Since that time, we’ve seen Zack Shane score five touchdowns. We saw George Hani, the third string running back, score a touchdown last week. Why do they hate Ken Walker? I have no idea. But this is not a matchup where you want to trust him. The Rams finally finally allowed a rushing touchdown to running back. It was last week. I don’t think they’re going to allow me multiple touchdowns in back-to-back weeks. I think it’s going to be a bad week for Ken Walker. Just a struggling week for the Seahawks offense in terms of a couple of their star players. So, I would sit Sam Darnold and Ken Walker. I mean, even if they do, it’s going to go to Charbanet and Hani and Sean Alexander. Kurt Warren, the other Kurt Warner. That’s right. Maybe uh some some throwbacks there for the Seahawks back. All right, Dave, let’s talk about a couple players you want to sit and they’re both former teammates in terms of Jared Goff and uh current team, excuse me, Jared and David Montgomery. It’s it’s almost the same thing as the Seattle situation with Darnold and Kenneth Walker. And actually, I think I like the Seattle guys better than I like the Lions guys. Can’t stand this matchup for both golf and Montgomery. Outdoors on the road against Philadelphia. Defense is better. You saw it on Monday night against Green Bay. Golf under pressure. He’s a mess. I don’t think he’s even going to get the projected 19 fantasy points. I think I would chance it on Darnold over Goff, but that’s a tough decision that fantasy managers are going to make. David Montgomery definitely a problem here with with the matchup and Jir Gibbs having a huge workload. Montgomery’s got a score. I’m going to bet against that happening. I think 9.4 4 projected points. I’d be surprised if he had like 7.4 in this game against Philadelphia. Tough sledding for him in week 11. All right, Heath, you and I are going to fight a little bit about some uh some of your sits here. So, you’re a little bit concerned about Baker Mayfield. You want to sit Tez Johnson, who I said to start, and a couple other names here on this list that you’re worried about. Yeah, I I am very worried about the Tampa Bay passing game. The last time the Bills allowed a quarterback to score 20 fantasy points was week one. And and quarterbacks aren’t getting close. was Lamar. No quarterback scored more than 16 fantasy points against them since then. Only one quarterback all year has thrown for more than 250 yards. They’ve given up three passing touchdowns in their last five games. This past defense has just not allowed much at all. And Baker Mayfield is not the same guy without Mike Evans or Chris Godwin. The first six weeks of the season, Baker Mayfield was averaging 7.9 yards per pass attempt. Okay. The last three weeks, 5.6. Yes, he threw three touchdown passes last week. He threw 43 passes. I think early in the game at least, Tampa Bay is going to run because that’s how you beat this Buffalo defense. So, I’m not sure it’s a huge volume game for Baker and no quarterback’s been good against the Bills since Lamar. It is it is very true that no quarterback has been good since Lamar. They faced two good quarterbacks since Lamar. One was Drake May who played very well, just didn’t get a big fantasy didn’t have a big fantasy game. The other was Patrick Mahomes. This is the list of quarterbacks that they faced. just to give a little bit of context to it is Justin Fields, Tuong of Aloto, Spencer Rattler, Michael Penn, and Andy Dalton. So, their numbers are obviously going to be a little bit inflated against a lot of that crappy situation that they’re playing here. And the thing that I like about Baker, which is why I think he should be a starter this week, is this is what he’s done in tough matchups. Atlanta, which we know has been better more earlier in the season than later, 28.6 points at Houston, toughest place to play, 23.9 points. Philadelphia, 22.9 points. At Seattle, 30.7 points. And last week, without his guys, like you mentioned, threw 43 times. I think they’re going to be throwing a lot in this game. I still like Baker Mayfield as a top 12 quarterback. I can understand understand the matchup being difficult why he wants to sit him break the tie. Do how high do you have? I have 12. Okay, so you like him even more than I do. I just can’t help myself with him because I agree he’s a gamer and when he’s out there he’s going to throw a lot. I will take the chance on him. But yes, this is obviously a tough situation for him. Those stats you lay out do make me nervous about Baker Mayfield, but I can’t help myself, man. He’s been playing so well even in this tough matchup. Even with the receivers that he’s missing, he still has a mechabuka. Still has Ted Johnson. I like him as a flex, not a top 24 guy. I like Kate Attton and tight ends have not had a great track record against BO. That’s a position they haven’t been tested against. They’ve they’ve only seemed like Travis Kelce, couple of other guys. I think Kateton gets a ton of targets. I think he helps Baker Mayfield have a decent game, not a top five type game. All right, so we’ll see how things go for Baker Mayfield. as things go for your fantasy rosters in week 11. Check out our fantasy football today podcast. Wherever podcasts are found, we’re helping you dominate your fantasy leagues. We got the NFC home games, the preview for that coming up on Friday, as well as our mailbag. And then Sunday morning, check us out at 11 a.m. Oh, serve. We got a uh international game 8:30 a.m. Eastern to get your lineup set to make sure you’re winning the Fantasy Football Today podcast. Wherever podcasts are from