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Should I Start Zay Flowers? #2026fantasyfootball

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2 min
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Nov 5, 2026
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Thu, November 5, 2026
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Flowers ran every route last week against Buffalo with 82% snap share and 5 targets despite 0 receptions and 0 yards. Joey Alf emphasizes Flowers is so good that a huge part of the Ravens game plan will be short area targets, making him nearly impossible to bench in 12-team leagues with standard flex configurations. Jacoby Brissett's arrival does not warrant panic or trading away Flowers. Alf's start/sit recommendation is to start Flowers in all league formats; the regret calculus favors starting him (risk of 1 catch for 17 yards) over benching him (risk of missing 4 receptions for 42 yards and a touchdown). Alf checked all his personal fantasy teams and found no league where his team was good enough to bench Flowers.

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0:00It's clearly the biggest start sit
0:01question of the week, which is why I'm
0:02spending so [music] much time on it.
0:04Then finally, we get to Zay Flowers.
0:06This is the best I could do, wide
0:08receiver 22. He played and ran every
0:11route last week against the Buffalo
0:12Bills with with Joey Alf. 82% of the
0:15snaps, five targets, zero receptions,
0:17zero yards. Almost impossible in my mind
0:20to like bench Zay Flowers in a 12-team
0:22league where you start two running
0:23backs, [music] two wide receivers, and
0:24two flexes or three wide receivers, one
0:26flex. Like, do I want to start Denzel
0:29Boston over Zay Flowers? I think that's
0:31too I think that's just too hard. I
0:32don't really think you could do that. I
0:33mean, ask yourself, what will I be more
0:35mad about? I start Zay Flowers and he
0:37has one catch for 17 yards, or I bench
0:40Zay Flowers and he has four receptions
0:42for 42 yards, but he finds a way to
0:44score a touchdown. I think that's the
0:45question you have to ask yourself. I
0:46mean, ultimately, Flowers is so good
0:49that I would guess a huge part of the
0:50Ravens game plan is going to be a bunch
0:52of short area targets. I know that we're
0:54getting Jacoby Brissett, so it's not
0:55like we need to panic and drop Zay
0:57Flowers or trade Zay Flowers away. Um,
0:59and I went through all my teams where I
1:01had Zay Flowers before I did this video
1:03because, you know, big thing for me is I
1:05want you guys to feel that I am giving
1:08you honest answers as to what I would do
1:10with your fantasy football teams the way
1:11that I would treat my own fantasy
1:13football teams. And, you [music] know, I
1:14have a lot of fantasy football teams. I
1:16play dynasty, I play I play everything.
1:18I did not find a single league where my
1:20team was good enough to bench Zay
1:22Flowers. Doesn't mean I wouldn't do it,
1:24right? Doesn't mean that it's even the
1:25right decision, but that is ultimately
1:26where I landed this Zay Flowers as wide
1:28receiver

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