NFL.com’s Week 10 Start 'Em, Sit 'Em column on wide receivers says to keep Zay Flowers in fantasy lineups even after a rough spell. Matt Okada’s latest advice also pushes Allen Lazard and Jalen Coker as fringe starts, while warning fantasy managers away from DK Metcalf and a few other value plays.
The timing matters because Week 10 lineup decisions are being made now, and the column is built for managers sorting through injuries, matchup swings and uneven usage. Flowers is the cleanest example: he has only 5.3 fantasy points over the past two weeks combined, but before that he was the WR5 in fantasy points per game and sat behind only Jaxon Smith-Njigba in yards per route run. With Jacoby Brissett set for his Ravens debut on Monday night, the setup still points to opportunity, and the Chargers defense is allowing the fifth-most fantasy points per game to wide receivers.
Okada’s case for Lazard is simpler. Since returning from injury, he has topped 13 fantasy points in three games, with one clear outlier in Week 8 when he finished with zero. Coker gets the opposite kind of caution: he has posted three straight games with single-digit fantasy points, even though New Orleans has allowed the second-most receiving yards per game on deep targets and the second-highest success rate on those throws. The column is not asking managers to chase headlines. It is asking them to weigh recent usage against the defenses in front of them.
The hardest calls come on the sit side, where Metcalf’s profile has not matched his name value. He has had only two games with 60-plus receiving yards all season, including three catches for 31 yards against Cincinnati in Week 3, and his 2026 numbers remain thin at a 51.6% catch rate and 1.3 yards per route run. The same logic hangs over Washington’s passing game, where Terry McLaurin’s absence has shifted targets and left Diggs with just three catches in each of the last two weeks after at least four receptions in every game with McLaurin active.
That is the point of a Week 10 start-and-sit column like this one: it is not about who has the biggest name, but about who still has the clearest path to points. Flowers is still in that group, even after the dip, and the next clue will come from the Week 10 injury and usage reports that follow these lineup calls into the weekend.
