{"id":348773,"date":"2025-09-07T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/348773\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:04:15","slug":"trey-benson-start-or-sit-week-1-fantasy-football-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/348773\/","title":{"rendered":"Trey Benson start or sit: Week 1 fantasy football advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season is finally here and opening weekend will continue on Sunday with the Arizona Cardinals visiting the New Orleans Saints at 1 p.m. ET on CBS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cardinals are coming off an 8-9 campaign in 2024, missing the playoffs for a third straight year. The pressure is on for them to take a step forward this season and one of the guys that could play a role in making that happen is second-year running back Trey Benson. He enters the year with an ADP (average draft position) in the 49-50 range across multiple scoring formats according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/nfl\/adp\/rb.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FantasyPros<\/a>, making him a late-round backup option for fantasy managers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Below, we\u2019ll go over Benson\u2019s outlook in fantasy football for Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Football analysis: Cardinals RB Trey Benson<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Benson saw limited touches as a rookie last season, registering just 63 carries for 291 yards and a touchdown on the ground for the Cards. He served as an occasional change-of-pace back as veteran James Conner once again handled a good bulk of the load as the team\u2019s workhorse tailback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bulking up ahead of his second year in the league, the 2024 third-round pick out of Florida State is <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.azcentral.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2Fcardinals%2F2025%2F06%2F14%2Fcardinals-trey-benson-bigger-and-better-this-offseason%2F84190449007%2F&amp;xcust=__sb0905awD__1077346__________________google.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">poised for even more carries<\/a> this season and was a trendy handcuff option for several fantasy managers across the board. Conner just turned 30 and with him dealing with injuries almost every year of his career, we may see a lot of Benson this season.<\/p>\n<p>Start or sit in Week 1 standard\/PPR leagues?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sit. Fantasy managers should take a wait-and-see approach when it comes to a handcuff like Benson. A matchup against a potentially dreadful Saints team right out the gate is tempting, but I\u2019d like to see how the second-year tailback is deployed first before I rush into putting him into the starting lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season is finally here and opening weekend will continue on Sunday with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,1999,58206,62739,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-348773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-fantasy-football","13":"tag-fantasy-football-running-backs","14":"tag-fantasy-football-start-sit-advice","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115162688423907570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}