Starting These 5 Could Mean Risky Business

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As we all witnessed last week, sometimes dancing with the date that brought you there can backfire. With everything on the line, hard decisions need to be made in order to keep on rolling through those fantasy playoffs.

Here are this week’s risky starts to consider benching, or at least lowering your expectations for in Week 16.

Alvin Kamara, RB, New Orleans Saints vs. Miami Dolphins
I can feel your eye-rolling from here as there aren’t many of you out there who would actually sit Kamara, but he does have a tough matchup in Week 16 and could derail your championship dreams.

The Dolphins have allowed a slender average of just 10.2 half-PPR points per game to entire backfields over their last five contests, and to pile on, Kamara’s usage took a hit last week with the return of Mark Ingram. He went from 32 touches in Week 14 to only 17 against Tampa…

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