The Green Bay Packers will face the Philadelphia Eagles on Wild Card Weekend. Here’s fantasy football start-sit advice for every Packers and Eagles skill player who has the potential to make a fantasy impact during the game.
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Jalen Hurts, QB
Jalen Hurts (and the coaching staff) is trusting his reads longer, a continued trend from the past few seasons. His quick pass rate in 2022 was 69.8% — it dipped to 61.7% in 2023 and finished this year at 57.3%. This is allowing his talented teammates to work downfield; against a Packers secondary with question marks, that fuels considerable upside.
Week 1 was forever ago, but we had a healthy version of this Eagles team. That seems to be the case here (assuming that Hurts is cleared of any concussion-related restrictions). In that win, Hurts was locked onto A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith (62.1% of targets, 60% of completions, and 73% of pass yards).
- Over 30 rushing yards in four of five career playoff games
- Rushing TD or a dozen rush attempts in 13 of 14 healthy games this regular season
The rushing upside speaks for itself, and if he is going to rely heavily on his most talented teammates, Hurts has every chance to be the leading scoring player in this round. He won’t be a unique play, but with three other athletic quarterbacks on the slate, I don’t expect any singular QB to be too popular.
Jordan Love, QB
All seems good health-wise for Jordan Love after the Week 18 scare, but I’m not interested in going in this direction…