Week 17 TNF Seahawks vs. Bears Start 'Em Sit 'Em Picks feat. Zach Charbonnet, Keenan Allen, Cole Kmet

Modified Dec 26, 2024 15:22 GMT

Week 17 of the 2024 fantasy football season features a Thursday Night Football showdown between Seattle Seahawks and Chicago Bears. The championship round of the fantasy playoffs is being played this week in many leagues, so managers must make sure to fully optimize their lineups. Here are some of the best targets and fades from this particular matchup.

Week 17 TNF Seahawks vs Bears Fantasy Football Start 'Em picks

Zach Charbonnet will get the opportunity to serve as the starting running back for the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday Night Football with Kenneth Walker III being ruled out with an injury.

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Charbonnet has been excellent in his limited games as a featured back this year, finishing as the weekly RB16 or better in all four of his games in which he has appeared in more than 55% of the snaps. This makes him one of the best overall streamers when he faces off against the Chicago Bears this week.

He is joined by Keenan Allen, who is on an incredible hot streak in fantasy football following his extremely slow start to the 2024 season. He has finished as the weekly WR14 or better in four of his past five games after doing so just once across the first 11 weeks of the season. He has turned things around just in time for the fantasy playoffs and now must be started in all formats due to his elite form recently.

Must Starts

Zach Charbonnet
DJ Moore
Keenan Allen
Jaxon Smith-Njigba

DFS Picks

Caleb Williams
Zach Charbonnet
Keenan Allen

Week 17 TNF Seahawks vs Bears Fantasy Football Sit 'Em picks

Cole Kmet has flashed his elite upside at times during the 2024 fantasy football season, including three finishes among the top 12 weekly tight ends. The issue has been his consistency as he has finished outside of the top 30 seven times, despite ranking as the overall TE15 this year. His dangerously low floor makes him way too risky to trust in the starting lineup at this point in the year.

Another player to fade from this TNF matchup is Rome Odunze, who has yet to demonstrate enough upside to trust in lineups for the fantasy playoffs. He has turned in promising volume, including at least five targets in each of his past nine games, but he has finished better than the weekly WR35 just three times in 15 games this season.