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Fantasy football Week 5: Start, sit, sleeper picks

It would be nice if your quarterback could go out and toss five or six touchdowns (which seems to be in vogue right now) and your running back or receiver backed that up with three touchdowns, but most of us don't have Patrick Mahomes or Alvin Kamara.

So you're going to have to put in a little more work for your points. Week 4 presents a critical time where fantasy football seasons can be set up for a playoff race or run aground.

A couple of players also come off suspension to further shake up the fantasy landscape.

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Ben Roethlisberger, QB, Steelers vs. Falcons.

Roethlisberger doesn't often have two mediocre games in a row, and that's the best word to describe what happened against the Ravens. The Falcons, meanwhile, have coughed up

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