Week 2 is graded and on the Check Sheet. The Starts went 8 for 19. The Sits went 10 for 14. Eighteen of 33 overall, which is barely better than a coin flip, and the two halves are not equally responsible.
Telling you who not to play is the easier job, and we were meaningfully better at it. Marvin Harrison Jr. finished WR172 on one target. Mike Gesicki finished TE77 on zero. Jordan Addison finished WR78. Those are correct calls, but they are also the kind of call that does not change anyone's lineup very much, because most managers were not starting those players anyway.
The Starts are where the money is, and four of the eleven misses share a cause. Luther Burden III (WR63), Terry McLaurin (WR51), Matthew Golden (WR35) and George Pickens (WR34) were all secondary receivers promoted off one encouraging Week 1. Burden is the clearest lesson: he drew seven targets and a 43.8 percent target share, which is exactly the usage we said to look for, and turned it into three catches for 32 yards because the Chicago offense could not move. Usage is necessary and it is not sufficient.
The worst single call was Tre Tucker, a Sit who finished WR7 with 22.9 points in a Raiders win. The second worst was sitting Bryce Young for the second week running; he has now scored 56.5 points over two weeks and is a top-five quarterback. Two weeks of being wrong about the same player is not bad luck, it is a bad model of that player.
Week 3 changes the format in a way that should help. The sheet now names exactly 36 Must Starts — 6 QB, 12 RB, 12 WR, 3 TE, 3 D/ST — which forces the obvious studs into the set instead of spending calls on receivers who might get there. It also means the number is directly comparable to the consensus top 36, which we now freeze before kickoff and grade the same way. If the new system is not better, that will be visible too, and it will be on the same page.