{"id":348826,"date":"2025-09-07T11:32:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/348826\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:32:24","slug":"khalil-shakir-start-or-sit-week-1-fantasy-football-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/348826\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalil Shakir 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 night with the Baltimore Ravens visiting the Buffalo Bills at 8:20 p.m. ET on NBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After once again falling to the Chiefs in last year\u2019s AFC Championship Game, the Bills will begin the new season with the hope that this will be the year that they finally break through to the Super Bowl. Josh Allen will mostly have the same group of weapons from last season at his disposal and one of them is wide receiver Khalil Shakir. He enters the year with an ADP (average draft position) of 45 according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/nfl\/adp\/wr.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FantasyPros<\/a>, so he\u2019ll be coming off the bench for most fantasy managers to start the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Below, we\u2019ll go over Shakir\u2019s outlook in fantasy football for Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Football analysis: Bills WR Khalil Shakir<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Shakir was Allen\u2019s go-to option through the air last season, commanding a team-high 100 targets for 76 receptions, 821 yards, and four touchdowns. His 5.1 catches per game tied him for 16th-most in the league and he was well above league average in almost every other statistical category. That allowed him to finish the regular season as WR37 in PPR leagues with 12.2 fantasy points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Signing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/bills-sign-wr-khalil-shakir-four-year-contract-extension-worth-up-to-60-million\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four-year contract extension<\/a> in February, he factors to be a major part of the Bills offense for years to come and the sheer volume of targets he\u2019ll receive this year makes him a top sleeper candidate in PPR leagues. He\u2019s increased his production in each of his three seasons in the league and we\u2019ll see if that continues in 2025.<\/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\">Start. Shakir is the top receiving option in Buffalo and Allen should target him early and often in this primetime showdown. His high volume of targets makes him a savvy choice to slip into a Flex spot, especially in PPR leagues. If you have him, I say start him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season is finally here and opening weekend will continue on Sunday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,1999,62739,58209,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-348826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-fantasy-football","13":"tag-fantasy-football-start-sit-advice","14":"tag-fantasy-football-wide-receivers","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115162798131666824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348826","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=348826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}