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Week 1 is honestly one of the toughest weeks of the year to set a lineup. There is no in-season tape, nobody knows who is actually getting the volume yet, and every takeaway from the preseason could be noise. So I am skipping the obvious studs and going straight to the guys on the edge of your lineup, the ones you are genuinely torn on.

16 calls, split into my starts, my desperate starts, the guys to temper expectations on, and my sits. None of it is gut feel. Every one is backed by coverage tendencies, defensive coordinator trends carrying over from last year, and route running splits against the exact look each player sees this week.

There is a receiver going up against a rookie corner in his first NFL game that I love this week, and a running back a lot of you have written off who still has real volume coming his way. A few of these will surprise you.

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