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Clutch Score vs. Consensus: Week 2's Boldest Calls

Where our Clutch Score ranks players most differently than the experts do for Week 2: who we are starting above consensus, and who we are sitting.

The Clutch Score is our own projection of how a player scores this week, built from matchup, Vegas odds, usage and season projections rather than a poll of analysts. Most weeks it lands near expert consensus. Where it doesn't is the interesting part: a gap between our ranking and the field's is where a start/sit edge hides. These are our boldest calls for Week 2.

We line up each player's positional rank in our model against the experts' positional rank for the same week. A back we slot at RB12 whom the consensus has at RB20 is a +8 gap; the wider it is, the bolder the call. Both sides are weekly, so this is a disagreement about Sunday rather than about the season. Our biggest value is Xavier Worthy (WR27 to us, WR54 by consensus, +27), and our widest fade is Parker Washington (WR53 vs WR20, -33).

Week 2 is not locked in yet, so these numbers still move with the projections. They are frozen once the week is captured.

Starts: where we’re higher than consensus

Players our model ranks meaningfully above the experts this week. If we’re right, these are the lineup calls the field is slower to make.

PlayerOur rankConsensusGap
WRXavier WorthyKCWR27WR54+27
WRKhalil ShakirBUFWR26WR49+23
WRJayden ReedGBWR25WR46+21
RBBlake CorumLARRB17RB38+21
WRDeebo SamuelSFWR23WR43+20
WRTerry McLaurinWASWR9WR28+19
WRStefon DiggsWASWR17WR35+18
WRJordan AddisonMINWR29WR44+15
QBC.J. StroudHOUQB6QB20+14
RBMarShawn LloydGBRB15RB29+14
RBRachaad WhiteWASRB29RB42+13
RBJacory Croskey-MerrittWASRB19RB32+13
RBKyren WilliamsLARRB4RB16+12
RBDavid MontgomeryHOURB5RB17+12
TEDalton SchultzHOUTE6TE17+11

Sits: where we’re lower than consensus

Players our model ranks below the experts this week. Not bad players, just ones whose matchup this week reads worse to us than to the field.

PlayerOur rankConsensusGap
WRParker WashingtonJAXWR53WR20-33
WRCarnell TateTENWR67WR39-28
WRBrian ThomasQJAXWR74WR47-27
WRWan'Dale RobinsonTENWR72WR48-24
WRJakobi MeyersJAXWR62WR40-22
WRDrake LondonATLWR33WR15-18
WRDK MetcalfPITWR47WR30-17
WRMichael PittmanPITWR51WR34-17
WRTre TuckerLVWR70WR53-17
WREmeka EgbukaTBWR37WR21-16
RBAshton JeantyLVRB21RB6-15
RBBhayshul TutenJAXRB42RB27-15
QBTrevor LawrenceJAXQB24QB10-14
WRRome OdunzeCHIWR43WR29-14
RBTravis EtienneNORB36RB22-14

Rankings reflect FantasyPros expert consensus (PPR); projections via Sleeper. Generated live, so the names update as consensus moves.