It was one of those decisions that fantasy football owners dread every year: in a playoff situation, do you take a risk with a star who’s clearly at less than 100 percent or do you kick yourself in hindsight if that normally productive player does what he always does?
In the case of Keenan Allen, many fantasy football owners decided to start the Los Angeles Chargers star on Thursday night against the Las Vegas Raiders. Reports before the game indicated that the receiver with hamstring injury would play, but that — per ESPN’s Adam Schefter — he’d be on “a rep count.”
And then there was this from Allen himself to FOX cameras before the game:
Take this for what it's worth from the man himself: Keenan Allen just yelled into the camera during pregame "Don't sit me!"
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) December 18, 2020
Oops. Allen saw just three targets and caught one of them for 17 yards. If you started him in your fantasy playoff game, sorry.
Here’s some reaction to that “don’t sit me”:
When you planned on benching Keenan Allen but you started him anyway only because he said “don’t sit me” to the camera before the game pic.twitter.com/8znItUcEln
— Sammy Almatarneh (@Sammy_646) December 18, 2020
Starting Keenan Allen after he said “don’t sit me.” pic.twitter.com/mor0iwJT9S
— Cody Ulm 😷 (@CodyUlm) December 18, 2020
Josh Jacobs says don't start him and he plays. Keenan Allen says don't sit me and he is kind of sort of benched.
Maybe we just don't listen to these guys and go with our gut? This is mental.
— Andrew Herrmann (@Yokahset) December 18, 2020
Keenan Allen looked into a camera and said "Don't sit me."
Fantasy football managers, it's not your faultpic.twitter.com/Fo5HI06uCD
— Ian Hartitz (@Ihartitz) December 18, 2020
Yup. Fantasy football is pain.
