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Matt's wide receiver (WR) fantasy football start 'em, sit 'em picks for Week 4 of 2025. His WR lineups advice for Week 4 fantasy football start/sit decisions.
If you had Tre Tucker as your WR1 for Week 3, you either need to get a lottery ticket or, my friend, you are a liar. Seriously, no one had a 40.9-point fantasy performance on their bingo card, or that Tucker would be averaging 19.7 fantasy points per game after three weeks.
Tucker isn't alone as an early season surprise. Emeka Egbuka, Quentin Johnston, and Michael Pittman Jr. have all exceeded expectations and are currently WR1s in fantasy, while Mike Evans, A.J. Brown, and Justin Jefferson are all outside the top 25.
To try and make sense of everything wide receiver-driven in Week 4, here are your RotoBaller Week 4 starts and sits at the wide receiver position.
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Week 4 Starts - Fantasy Football Booms
Keenan Allen - WR, Los Angeles Chargers at New York Giants
Who says you can't come home again? After spending one season in Chicago, where Keenan Allen would finish second on the team in receptions (70), targets (121), and receiving yards (744), the late free-agent signee is up to his old trick once again, leading the Chargers in receptions (19) and targets (28). He is also tied for the team lead in touchdowns (three) and second in receiving yards with 194.
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Digging deeper into the analytics, Allen has received a 25% target share, a 23.4% first-read target share, and an air yards share of 25.6% through the first three weeks as he and Justin Herbert pick up where the two left off back in 2023. When you put all that together, it is no wonder that Allen is among the best in fantasy production, averaging 18.8 fantasy points per contest and sitting inside the top 10 along with teammate Johnston.
Bet you thought I was going to say Ladd McConkey. This week, Allen and the Chargers head to New York to face the Giants. New York has allowed 46 receptions for 587 receiving yards to opposing wide receivers for an average of 44.10 fantasy points against per game, the second most.
Jakobi Meyers - WR, Las Vegas Raiders vs. Chicago Bears
Both Jakobi Meyers and Rome Odunze are smash starts this week. Las Vegas has allowed 551 receiving yards and three touchdowns this season to opposing wide receivers while further demonstrating an inability to prevent fantasy production, as opposing receivers have been a chalk play producing 43.03 fantasy points per game against the Raiders secondary, the third most.
Odunze should be a smash start every week moving forward, but if you needed a reminder, there it is.
As for Meyers, as bad as the Raiders secondary has been, the Bears aren't any better. In fact, Chicago has allowed the fourth-most fantasy points to the receiver position this season, yielding an average of 41.30 per contest. It has also been the victim of six receiving touchdowns this season against the position, which ties it with the Dallas Cowboys for the most in the NFL.
All Meyers has done this season is what he does every season. While you won't find his name in the top 10 or 12, he'll be in WR2 territory despite being drafted as a WR4 on your team. Over Meyers' last 17 games, the receiver has totaled 98 receptions on 144 targets for 1,185 receiving yards and five touchdowns.
Currently, Meyers sits as a WR2, averaging 13.3 fantasy points per game, which is more production than fantasy managers have been getting from Jefferson, Evans, or DK Metcalf thus far.
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Matthew Golden - WR, Green Bay Packers at Dallas Cowboys
In a difficult matchup last week, fantasy managers may have a glimmer of hope regarding Matthew Golden's fantasy prospects this season. Against the Browns, Golden was second on the Packers in receptions and targets with four. He was also second in snaps (69%) and routes (26), leading the way with 52 receiving yards.
Looking at his utilization, Golden's route rate per week is as follows: Week 1 57%, Week 2 68%, Week 3 84%. Everything here suggests that Golden is becoming a more integral part of this offense, as many believed he would be after being selected in the first round of this past April's NFL Draft.
Heading into Week 4 with Golden beginning to trend upward is an excellent time for the Packers pass-catcher to face the most generous defenses in all of fantasy in the Dallas Cowboys. Last week, Dallas allowed Luther Burden III to drop 101 yards and a touchdown on just three receptions, while Odunze added 62 additional receiving yards and a touchdown on his three grabs.
Add that up for fantasy, and the Bears duo would finish with 34.3 fantasy points. On the season, Dallas has not only allowed a league high in receiving yards (661) and touchdown receptions (six) to opposing receivers, but the 47.90 fantasy points it allows per game are 3.8 fantasy points per game more than the next closest team.
Week 4 Sits - Potential Fantasy Football Busts
Ja'Marr Chase - WR, Cincinnati Bengals at Denver Broncos
The Minnesota Vikings have a good defense compared to most. Brian Flores loves to bring pressure, and Jake Browning isn't afraid to try to throw the ball in tight spaces. Unfortunately for Ja'Marr Chase, the Vikings defense kept the All-Pro to five receptions for 50 yards. Chase is averaging 16.7 fantasy points per game, but that is a little misleading, considering 36.5 or 73% of that fantasy production came in Week 2 alone.
This week, fantasy production could once again be at a premium as one of the best receivers in the NFL faces the best shutdown corner the game has to offer. While Patrick Surtain II's numbers aren't up to his lockdown nature, the Broncos corner has only conceded nine receptions on 213 snaps, with 134 coming in coverage, the most among corners.
As a team, Denver is allowing 29.10 fantasy points per game this season, the eighth fewest, and has allowed 422 yards receiving to the position on 40 receptions. Once again, the difference will be pressure. While the Vikings sit fifth in sacks this season with nine after getting to Browning three times last week, the Broncos lead the NFL with 12 after finishing with 64 a season ago.
DK Metcalf - WR, Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Minnesota Vikings
You can apply the same rationale to Metcalf this week for everything just mentioned about Chase. The New England Patriots are a solid defensive unit. Harold Landry III is right there with Myles Garrett this season regarding getting after the quarterback. Against Landry and the Patriots, Aaron Rodgers threw for 139 yards, with Metcalf responsible for 32 yards on his four targets.
When arriving in Pittsburgh after being dealt by the Seahawks, many projected Metcalf for a much larger role in the Steelers offense. Thus far, Metcalf has only seen a 19.7% target share and a first-read share of 23.8%. Who else is there to throw to: Calvin Austin III, Roman Wilson, Ben Skowronek? Even Marquise Brown and Wan'Dale Robinson have first-read target shares over 28%.
This week will unlikely be the week the Steelers get their passing game going. Flores will send Andrew Van Ginkel and Jonathan Greenard every chance he gets to disrupt Rodgers' timing and make him uncomfortable in the pocket. Greenard has accumulated 12 pressures in three contests, the seventh most in the league.
Looking at the fantasy production that Minnesota has allowed this season, no team has been stingier against opposing wideouts than the Vikings, who allow a league low 18.17 fantasy points per game, which is 3.3 fantasy points fewer than the next closest team.
George Pickens - WR, Dallas Cowboys vs. Green Bay Packers
With CeeDee Lamb (ankle) out for at least the next two weeks and unlikely to be evaluated for at least three weeks, the Dallas Cowboys will turn to George Pickens as their No. 1 wide receiver for the time being. The problem is, he hasn't shown much this season to be worthy of that WR1 status.
Last week, even with Lamb limited, Pickens caught just five of nine targets for 68 yards. Sure, Pickens ended up with a touchdown, but Jake Ferguson led the team with 13 receptions, 14 targets, and 82 receiving yards.
Pickens' air yards and air yard shares are promising, sitting at 251 yards and 26.5%, respectively. So, despite being a sit this week, Pickens is one of a handful of players who realistically only need one reception to have himself a 10-12 point fantasy week. In best ball formats, Pickens is the ultimate wild card; in season-long and Guillotine leagues, eliminating as much risk as possible is the best play.
Micah Parsons will be looking to exact some revenge on Dallas management, and what better way to do so than to make Dak Prescott as uncomfortable as possible? To move the ball against pressure, Dallas will have to dink and dunk, which still is not beneficial for Pickens' fantasy success.
Green Bay is currently the fifth-most-difficult matchup for fantasy receivers, allowing 25.60 fantasy points per game and surrendering 285 receiving yards to the position on 34 receptions.
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