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Start Aaron Rodgers For Fantasy Championship Week

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Fantasy football is often reactionary — we’re quick to start and bench players as their previous performances are hot or cold. Aaron Rodgers has been a perennial starter for fantasy teams this season; his performance this season has him primed for another MVP title for the Green Bay Packers, but his performance against the Buffalo Bills is certainly going to make fantasy owners in position for the championship a little less trusting in starting him next week.

Not that everyone with Rodgers in their lineup would go as far to bench him in the title game (or any other playoff matchup) this week, but with a championship on the line, some will definitely look at a lineup change. Why? Rodgers and the streaking Packers were finally dismantled by the Bills — Rodgers failed to complete even 50 percent of his passes with no touchdowns and threw two interceptions.

Surely, it was one of Rodgers’ career worst games, but maybe it’s more the Bills than teams finally getting into Rodgers’ head. The week prior, the Bills also took down future Hall of Fame QB Peyton Manning, holding him to under 200 yards and two interceptions as well. The Bills are looking like a streaking team right now, to which the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – the Packers’ next opponent — are not.

The Bucs have had their occasional share of success against QBs, for sure, but they won’t be able to stop a playoff-hunting Packers team. The Packers need to win this week to increase their likelihood of taking the division title, heading into a last week matchup against the Detroit Lions to claim the NFC North.

Rodgers is as clutch a player as there is in the league, and he won’t let one game get the best of him. The Bucs are in the bottom 10 QB defending teams, and Rodgers will do all he can. In fact, expect at least three touchdowns and 300 yards — attacking from all corners to his top tier receiving corps against a weak Bucs secondary.

Nothing has changed from last week compared to the rest of the season that you started him without hesitation — don’t change that with a possible fantasy title on the line.

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