Fantasy Football: Start/Sit for Thursday Steelers vs. Ravens

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Hopefully my advice helped lead all of your teams to that important first week victory.

Week 2 kicks off with a divisional rivalry as the Pittsburgh Steelers travel to play the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens have been in the news this week for all the wrong reasons as it seems the Ray Rice catastrophe has finally come to an end as the Ravens decided to terminate Rice’s contract. That leaves some questions for the Ravens at running back, which I will address later.

QUARTERBACKS:

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When it comes to quarterbacks, both Joe Flacco and Ben Roethlisberger got off to hot starts in week one. Flacco threw for 345 yards, but only managed one touchdown while Roethlisberger threw for 365 yards and again only one Touchdown.

The Baltimore secondary seemed to get exposed last week by Cincinnati Quarterback Andy Dalton, so there is a chance Roethlisberger could produce decent numbers for you. However neither Flacco or Big Ben were drafted by you to be your starter unless you are in a deep league, so if you have better options leave Roethlisberger and Flacco on the bench.

RUNNING BACKS:

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Last week Baltimore had no trouble shutting down the Cincinnati running game, which could spell trouble for LeVeon Bell, who impressed fantasy owners last week.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Pittsburgh’s defense could not stop a nose bleed last week allowing TERRENCE WEST to run for 100 yards. No offense to Mr. West, but I’m going throw up a big red flag on that. Which leads me back to my point from earlier. Ray Rice is no longer with the Ravens, his successor Bernard Pierce had as much success running the ball as any of you reading this at home. So who is the running back who you want from Baltimore to start this week who is probably sitting on your waiver wire? Justin Forsett

. Forsett took over week one, rushing 11 times for 70 yards and a touchdown. Now he is playing a team who gave up 100 yards to Terrance West? Justin Forsett could become the pickup of the year if he can hold on to that starting job.
WIDE RECEIVERS:

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Congratulations to those who took a chance on Ravens Wide Receiver Steve Smith. Smith one again had a fantastic week 1. I would be shocked if Smith put up numbers like that again this week, and I will also be shocked if Torrey Smith sees only seven targets like he did last week.

This should cause numbers to balance out just a bit between the Baltimore receivers.

For Pittsburgh, facing a defense who gave up 300 yards passing the past week should only make you love Antonio Brown even more. Markus Wheaton could be in line for a repeat performance as well.

As for everyone well else, I do not believe either Tight End or Defense is worth starting. This should be an exciting and high scoring game, and will be an exciting one to watch. I will be back Friday to help answer all your remaining fantasy questions.

As always tweet me @Marky_Mark2018 with your fantasy questions and I’ll do my best to address them. Best of luck in Week 2!

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