The Tennessee Titans will face the Washington Commanders in Week 13. Here’s fantasy football start-sit advice for every Titans skill player who has the potential to make a fantasy impact during the game.
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Will Levis, QB
Will Levis opened last week at Houston with 11 straight completions (177 yards and a touchdown), something that was good for dynasty managers to see.
He later added to his fantasy total by hitting Chig Okonkwo on a nine-yard pass that the athletic tight end turned into a 70-yard touchdown. If you’re simply looking at box scores, you’ll see two usable weeks from Levis in his three games since returning from injury — again, a nice step for him to take in Year 2.
Let’s not get carried away. This isn’t a player that one-QB-leaguers need to worry about. If he can put up big numbers this week, we can have the “Do I stream Will Levis against Jacksonville with Lamar Jackson on a bye?” conversation next week. I hope that comes through as that would be awfully helpful for all of us Jackson managers who refuse to roster a secondary QB.
Time will tell on that front — there’s nothing you need to do this weekend.
Tony Pollard, RB
“Running hard” comes with a gray area, but Tony Pollard certainly checked that box last week with Tyjae Spears (concussion), producing his best game relative to expectations since Week 6.
Tennessee leaned on its lead back in a significant way out of the gates, and with early success, that allowed them to commit. Pollard touched the ball seven times on their first 19 plays, picking up 55 scrimmage yards and a score in the process. I hate to make things simple, but how do you see this game playing out?
Three wins this season: 19.7 PPG and 27.3 touches per game
Eight losses this season: 12.0 PPG and 16.9 touches per game
Personally, I like Washington to bounce back off of a chaotic Week 12 loss, and that means I’m lower on Pollard. I have him ranked as my RB25 right now with the assumption that Spears returns — if that’s not the case, he’ll inch into the back end of my RB2 rankings, but not much higher.
Tyjae Spears, RB
Tyjae Spears was ruled out last Friday with a concussion, though limited practice sessions throughout the week have me putting him on the right side of questionable heading into Week 13.
He might well be active for the Titans, but he’s done nothing to be deserving of consideration in even the deepest of fantasy leagues. Only once this season has the former third-round pick cleared seven carries, and while he has shown promise during his short career as a pass catcher, he has a total of 12 receiving yards over his past four games.
There’s no need to back up your Tony Pollard investment; Spears should be on waiver wires across the board.
Calvin Ridley, WR
So let me get this straight: The Titans moved on from DeAndre Hopkins, dealt with a Will Levis injury, and now they’ve unlocked the ability to consistently sustain two fantasy receivers?
Sure, why not?
This team has produced a top-20 receiver in five straight weeks, and the sum of Calvin Ridley and Nick Westbrook-Ikhine’s finishes over that stretch hasn’t once risen above 58. Ridley remains the far more projectable of the two, and that is what has earned him a high-end Flex grade for me this week against a Washington defense that blitzes at a top-seven rate but succeeds in getting pressure on those plays at a bottom-seven rate.
For me, that means single-coverage situations, and we know Levis, for better or worse, is willing to give his talented tandem a chance to win those 50/50 balls. The Westbrook-Ikhine scoring barrage feels like a house of cards to me, but this Ridley run has some staying power, and this isn’t the week I’d advise jumping off.
Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, WR
Nick Westbrook-Ikhine saw five targets against the Texans, and the rules of 2024 state that he has to score when that is the case.
I kid. Sort of. He is literally scoring once every five targets this season and has found paydirt in six of the seven games this season in which he’s seen a target. Of course, this rate is unsustainable and I’m happy to keep fading a secondary weapon in a Will Levis-led offense.
I don’t believe in momentum. I look to make sense of everything in my life, not just fantasy football. I can’t explain what is going on with Westbrook-Ikhine and I tend to avoid what I can’t understand. If you want to chase good vibes, go for it. I won’t be joining you (one game with more than three catches this season).
