Wide Receiver Start 'Em, Sit 'Em Picks for Fantasy Football Week 11 (2025)

by Justin Carter

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Justin's wide receiver start 'em, sit 'em picks for fantasy football Week 11 lineups (2025). Read his expert WR start/sit advice for Tetairoa McMillan, Tre Tucker, Courtland Sutton, others.

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2. Week 11 Concerns - Potential Fantasy Football Busts

3. Who Should I Start Tool

5. More Fantasy Football Analysis

Let me tell you a story about Thursday night. See, I have a dynasty league where injuries have been killing me. With the Jets putting Garrett Wilson on IR, I was like, "Hmm, sure, I'll play Adonai Mitchell in one of my lineups." That went poorly! Mitchell had the ball come his way a few times, but his complete inability to actually catch a football resulted in a gross stat line: one catch for 10 yards despite being targeted six times.

What did I learn from that? Well...don't just assume that someone will step up when another guy is injured. Also, don't play a wide receiver whose quarterback is as bad as Justin Fields, especially when that team faces a team as good as New England. How can we apply that logic for the rest of our Week 11 fantasy lineup decisions? One easy thing is this: Don't play any Titans wide receivers this weekend!

Anyway, enough complaining about Mitchell. I stupidly made my bed, and now I'm probably going to lose my matchup. Let's make sure you don't also lose your matchups. Below are my Week 11 WR start 'em, sit 'em picks.

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Week 11 Starts - Potential Fantasy Football Booms

Tre Tucker, Las Vegas Raiders

Vegas' first game after the Jakobi Meyers trade was viewed as an opportunity for Tre Tucker to break out, but it's tough to break out when your quarterback plays as poorly as Geno Smith did against Denver. Smith was 16-for-26 for 143 yards and an interception in a 10-7 loss to the Broncos.

Tucker was only targeted three times in the game, half as many targets as Tyler Lockett earned. With that in mind, you might reach a conclusion that Lockett is the player to have in Vegas — at least, if you even want to roster any of the wide receivers on this roster.

Lockett spent the first seven games of the season looking incredibly washed with the Titans before the team released him. One game where he caught five passes for 44 yards for Vegas isn't going to suddenly change my analysis of Lockett. He's past his prime.

Tucker might not have gotten a ton of opportunities last week, but he's the best wide receiver on this roster, and he has a great shot to excel against one of the league's worst defenses this week. The last time he faced a defense as comparably bad as this Dallas one came against Washington, a game where Tucker caught eight passes for 145 yards and three touchdowns.

Malik Washington, Miami Dolphins

Speaking of the Washington defense, the Dolphins get the luxury of facing the Commanders this week. Jaylen Waddle is a WR1 play, but it'd be boring to talk about Waddle, right? Like...if you're reading this, I trust you're a pretty smart fantasy player, so you know that under no circumstances should Waddle be on your bench.

In a deeper league, Waddle isn't the only Dolphins receiver you should play. It's time to fire up Malik Washington.

Uce finds Malik for 6️⃣!

📺: @NFLonCBS @paramountplus pic.twitter.com/RTCGTvcMo1

— Miami Dolphins (@MiamiDolphins) November 9, 2025

The second-year receiver has two touchdown receptions in the last three games and has at least three targets in all but one contest this season. That's not to say he's a safe play — he had a touchdown last week but also finished with only nine receiving yards — but I love the upside against Washington.

Because phew, this Washington pass defense is not good. The team allows 260.2 passing yards per game, the second-most in the NFL, and has also allowed the fifth-most passing scores per contest. As far as fantasy production, that's translated to opposing wide receivers averaging the second-most fantasy points per game, with 13 receiving touchdowns for wide receivers through Washington's first 10 games.

Andrei Iosivas, Cincinnati Bengals

It's very hard to trust Bengals wide receiver Andrei Iosivas in a vacuum. He has just three games all season with over 25 receiving yards, which is the same number of games that he has with zero receiving yards. He's an extremely boom-or-bust play, and his big showing against the Bears came in part because the Bears' defense was so bad that Joe Flacco threw for 470 yards against it. The production just trickled down to Iosivas.

FLACCO DELIVERS AND WE ARE TIED!

CHIvsCIN on CBS/Paramount+https://t.co/HkKw7uXVnt pic.twitter.com/99KzPaj855

— NFL (@NFL) November 2, 2025

So, why am I listing him as a start this week? Well, because it's a great matchup, and also because there's no point saying "start Tee Higgins" since you're already going to do that.

The Steelers defense allows the fourth-most fantasy points per game to opposing wide receivers and has given up the second-most yards overall to the position. No, I don't expect Iosivas to benefit from another 400-yard Flacco game, but he can still carve out a nice role this weekend if Flacco throws for 300 yards, which wouldn't be out of the question.

Iosivas is a boom-or-bust option, and the "bust" part is very much in play, but it's a very good matchup. If you need to take a risk because you're light on options, go ahead and roll with him.

Week 11 Concerns - Potential Fantasy Football Busts

Courtland Sutton, Denver Broncos

The Chiefs' defense has been a nightmare matchup for wide receivers this season, with the team allowing the second-fewest fantasy points to the position. Kansas City is the only team in the league that has allowed fewer than 1,000 yards to the wide receiver position.

That alone makes Broncos wide receiver Courtland Sutton risky this weekend, but it's not even the whole story for why Sutton is going to be riding my bench in (almost) every league where I have him rostered.

See, Sutton started this season off really strong with two WR1 finishes in the first three weeks of the season, then was WR13 in Week 4. Since then, his only top 20 finish was in Week 7, when he was the WR19. In three games since, he's been WR37, WR25, and WR62.

As the Broncos continue to look under the hood of their lackluster passing offense, one thing needs an immediate change…

Start featuring Courtland Sutton more.

Troy Franklin has 41 targets in the last 5 weeks. Courtland Sutton has 29 over that stretch…

Go back to basics. pic.twitter.com/DEPOKNMBjV

— Zach Bye (@byesline) November 11, 2025

Basically, Sutton is trending way down right now, and it happens to be at the worst possible time for that: ahead of a divisional game against an elite pass defense.

Xavier Worthy, Kansas City Chiefs

Only one team allows fewer fantasy points per game to wide receivers than the Chiefs, and that's the Chiefs' Week 11 opponents.

I trust quarterback Patrick Mahomes II too much to suggest that KC's passing attack will be completely shut down, but I don't want to play any pass-catchers in Kansas City this week outside of Rashee Rice and Travis Kelce.

Xavier Worthy is averaging 3.7 receptions for 37.0 yards per game since Rice's return and now has to face a very difficult matchup. It's just really tough to see a path for Worthy to fantasy relevance this week that doesn't include the words "randomly breaks off a big touchdown play." I don't like trusting my fantasy lineup to randomness unless I'm desperate.

(With that said, Worthy has higher upside than a couple of the guys from the start section. It's just that relative to expectation, he shouldn't be counted on. You can deploy him as a flex option, but don't expect big things.)

Tetairoa McMillan, Carolina Panthers

The last time Tetairoa McMillan played the Falcons, the rookie wide receiver was held to just three receptions, tied for the lowest mark of his rookie season. His 48 receiving yards in that game are the fourth-fewest of his season.

While McMillan's floor is still relatively high, fantasy managers shouldn't go into this weekend with high expectations. Yes, the rookie has played well overall, but all of his touchdown receptions came in the same game back in October, which was a meeting with an awful Cowboys defense.

Quarterback Bryce Young comes into this game having been held under 200 passing yards in all but one contest this season, so there's really just not much of a ceiling here for this passing game. The ceiling is, like, the roof of a crawlspace instead of the roof of a house.