PFN's Jacob Infante breaks down potential fantasy football busts in your league in Week 1. Is Chase Brown the Week 1 fantasy start that costs you the matchup? Should Rashee Rice be in your lineup at all? Brown carries one of the healthier projections on the board, but he opens against a Tampa Bay front that finished top five in run defense scoring in PFN's defense impact rankings, and his own September last season was the slowest stretch of his year. That is a projection built on volume meeting a defense built to take volume away. Rice has the tougher draw of the two -- Denver ranked top three in pass defense scoring last season and brings a secondary that does not give up easy separation, and the target tree in Kansas City runs through Xavier Worthy and Travis Kelce before it gets anywhere else. Projections are averages. Week 1 is not an average. Both of these are start-sit calls people will make on autopilot because the names are familiar and the preseason rankings are sitting right there, which is exactly how Week 1 lineups go sideways before anyone has a single real data point to work from. You can disagree with the calls once you've heard the why. Leave the wrong guy in your flex in Week 1, and you spend September digging out of it. Put any two players head-to-head with PFN's FREE Start/Sit Optimizer -- pfsn.app/nflstartsit Watch Next ---------------- Hit subscribe → / @pfn365 ---------------- PFN's FREE FOOTBALL TOOLS ---------------- NFL Playoff Predictor → pfsn.app/nflpredictor NFL Mock Draft Simulator → pfsn.app/mockdraft NFL Ultimate Redraft Simulator → pfsn.app/redraft College Football Playoff Predictor → pfsn.app/cfbpredictor PFN's FREE Start/Sit Optimizer - pfsn.app/nflstartsit
