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Start 'Em, Sit 'Em Week 5: Flex, PPR Advice for Fringe Fantasy Football Stars

Every fantasy draft pick is important, and the fourth week of the NFL season provided some great examples of why. Some of the week's top performers—like Jameis Winston, Jarvis Landry and Jordan Howard—were players that likely didn't get picked early in your fantasy draft.

Some of them may have even been sitting on your bench, which can spark one of the worst feelings in fantasy. Anyone who has played fantasy for long has started the wrong fringe player en route to a loss at least once.

A strong performance can be hard to predict—no one saw Howard getting three touchdowns against the Green Bay Packers—but often, the clues are there.