{"id":919643,"date":"2026-10-07T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/919643\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:28:10","slug":"nfl-fantasy-2026-start-em-sit-em-kickers-in-week-5-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/919643\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Fantasy 2026 Start &#8216;Em, Sit &#8216;Em: Kickers in Week 5 | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As always, Start &#8216;Em, Sit &#8216;Em is geared toward helping fantasy managers make difficult roster decisions. You won\u2019t see \u201cstart <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jahmyr-gibbs\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Jahmyr Gibbs<\/a>\u201d here. Instead, I&#8217;m exploring the players closer to the perceived fringe and aiming to optimize your lineup for a win each week.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the kickers I feel strongly about starting or sitting in Week 5.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Feel free to follow me on X (<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MattOkada?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">@MattOkada<\/a>) or Instagram (<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mattokadanfl\/?__d=1%2F%2F\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">@mattokadaNFL<\/a>) and hit me with your questions, congratulations or complaints throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As always, Start &#8216;Em, Sit &#8216;Em is geared toward helping fantasy managers make difficult roster decisions. You won\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,595,487679,593,487678,85,487677],"class_list":["post-919643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fantasy","tag-fantasy-football-analysis","tag-nfl","tag-sit-em","tag-sports","tag-start-em"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}