{"id":858555,"date":"2026-09-24T04:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858555\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T04:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:32:14","slug":"nfl-fantasy-2026-start-em-sit-em-running-backs-for-week-3-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858555\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Fantasy 2026 Start &#8216;Em, Sit &#8216;Em: Running backs for Week 3 | 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. Importantly, the new \u201cStart of the Week\u201d and \u201cSit of the Week\u201d are the calls I have deemed the most notable in each category, not necessarily the most essential players to start or sit.<\/p>\n<p>Also, you\u2019ll see quite a few references in this year\u2019s column to <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/pro.nfl.com\/?campaign=nfl-nfl-nr-vu-mq-3005899\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">NFL Pro,<\/a> spotlighting insights provided through Next Gen Stats data dashboards, matchup evaluations, All-22 film and the uniquely trained Fantasy AI Assistant. You can get access to all of those tools yourself with an <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/id.nfl.com\/select-subscription?p=gc-al&amp;campaign=nfl-nfl-ca-it-edi-3008554\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">NFL+ Premium subscription<\/a>!<\/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":858556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[11626,54686,349,106303,99,106302],"class_list":["post-858555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-fantasy","tag-fantasy-football-analysis","tag-nfl","tag-sit-em","tag-sports","tag-start-em"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}