Evan McPherson: Start or Sit?

K•vs TB•Fantasy Football verdict

Starting placekicker with big-leg range. Proven clutch postseason performer.

This week’s verdict

Start· medium

27.0 implied total plus 89% accuracy (25/28) and a 63-yard long make McPherson a fine K play — 8.5 projected points, 2.7 XPs baked in.

Projected

Same in standard, half-PPR and PPR

Consensus

K12

position rank

Projected FGA

1.9

1.7 made projected

Implied total

27.0

team points

Weather

—

no forecast yet

Red-zone stalls

1.1

per game · 2025

FG%

89%

25/28 · 2025

1.9 FG tries projected, just under the 2.0 league median this week.
CIN's offense stalls in the red zone 1.1 times a game (2025) — that's where kicker points come from.
Vegas has CIN at 27 points as 3.5-point favorites.
89% on field goals (2025), with a 50-plus make in 4 games.

The call

A 27.0 implied team total is a top-tier kicker environment: 2.7 projected extra points plus 1.9 field-goal tries gives him one of the better volume floors at the position.
He's been elite and locked in as PK1 — 89% accuracy on 25-of-28 with a 63-yard long and 50-plus makes in four games, so even stalled drives outside the 40 convert.
Only 1.1 red-zone stalls per game is a mild ceiling cap — this offense finishes drives, which pushes his scoring toward XPs rather than three-pointers.
Open roof with no forecast yet is the one thing to monitor; heavy wind would knock him back into the toss-up tier at K14.

Verdicts based on PPR scoring.

Week	Verdict	Reason
2026 Week 1	Start· medium	27.0 implied total plus 89% accuracy (25/28) and a 63-yard long make McPherson a fine K play — 8.5 projected points, 2.7 XPs baked in.

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