Fantasy football Week 3 PPR Cheat Sheet: Bryce Young earns start-worthy confidence against Browns — SkimNews
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- Dave Richard published his Week 3 PPR cheat sheet, ranking every relevant player using a 1-10 confidence scale where higher numbers indicate stronger start recommendations, explicitly framing the numbers as confidence scores rather than statistical projections.
- Fantasy managers enter Week 3 with two full weeks of results to evaluate, facing start/sit decisions between early breakouts like Jalen Coker, Denzel Boston, and Parker Washington and proven players who have started slowly.
- Jahmyr Gibbs, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and Ja'Marr Chase are identified as among the safest plays on the board despite the temptation to chase Week 2 breakouts.
- The cheat sheet is searchable by player name (CTRL-F/Command-F or URL bar on mobile), and readers can submit individual questions to Richard via his @DaveRichard handle using the #AskFFT hashtag.
- Sunday readers are directed to CBS Sports' real-time updated weekly rankings rather than the printed cheat sheet numbers for in-day lineup decisions.
Why it matters: Fantasy football managers face the first real decision point of the season with two weeks of data — and the temptation to chase breakouts like Coker, Boston, and Washington could cost them the production of proven stars like Gibbs, Smith-Njigba, and Chase. Richard's confidence-scale framework offers a structured alternative to raw projections, giving a single composite number to settle close calls across every starting roster spot.
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