Week 5 is where the bye weeks start gnawing at your roster and the receiver wall gets thin, so the timing on Derek Brown's latest start-sit rundown is close to perfect. The full list of calls is up over at MSN, and it's worth your two minutes before you lock lineups.

What I appreciate about Brown's approach is that he gives you the usage underneath the recommendation, not just names. That's how start-sit advice should work. A guy with 11 targets on a 78 percent snap share is a start even if he found the end zone zero times last week, because targets are the signal and touchdowns are the noise. I've beaten that drum all season and I'm not stopping now.

The receiver position in Week 5 is a minefield of trap options. You've got pass-catchers coming off two-touchdown games who saw four targets, and you've got guys with 20 combined targets over the last two weeks sitting on waivers because fantasy managers get bored. Brown's list does the useful thing of flagging which of those hot-hand names are actually sustainable and which are sell-high mirages, and knowing that split is what wins weeks.

My own quick framework as you cross-check his calls: start the volume, sit the variance. If your WR2 decision comes down to a 32-year-old with six targets a game and a rookie with one explosive play to his name, take the six targets and don't think twice. TD-dependent players feel great right up until they give you 2.7 points and cost you a matchup.

Deb is 3-0 in our home league riding a receiver I loudly called a reach in the fourth round, so take my start-sit authority with whatever grain of salt you need. My 2-1 squad has a genuine WR flex dilemma this week, which means I'll be running Brown's list against my own targets data about six times before Sunday morning. The midseason receipts ledger is coming, and I'd like to walk into that thing with a winning week.

Who are you agonizing over at receiver this week? The guy with the targets or the guy with the touchdowns. If you're hesitating, you already know my answer.