Perhaps more difficult than any waiver-wire add, trade or start 'em, sit 'em decision is when owners have to decide to bench or start star players in tough matchups.
Sitting a star can save or ruin a week. There's one school of thought suggesting owners start stars no matter what, but if this were the case—as a brief example—owners should have received more than six points from Carolina Panthers running back Jonathan Stewart last week in a projected rough encounter.
Slapping big names on the bench isn't an easy call. But ego aside, since doing so and watching him explode on the bench is never fun, it's a decision eventual league winners make at the right time.