8 Big-Name Players Who Will Be Tough to Trust in Week 15

Colin Kaepernick, QB, San Francisco 49ers

If you've read anything I (and almost anyone else on the planet) have written to this point, you're not starting Colin Kaepernick in any league except your "Really Big and Fast Dudes Who Have Sweet Tattoos and are from Milwaukee" league. Since your options are basically limited to Kaep, DeAndre Levy, and the Violent Femmes there, we can forgive you. But start Kaepernick on Sunday and you won't be able to forgive yourself.

Kaep has had seven consecutive games of 13 or fewer fantasy points, and his last two have accumulated nine points total. He's turned the ball over nine times in that span, and while he has a passing touchdown in six of those seven games, he also has less than 250 yards passing in five of them. Now, you might say, "Joe, that sounds an awful lot why you are so down on Russell Wilson lately too!" And you'd be right. The differences between the two are in ball security, but Wilson is also gaining an inordinate amount of yardage and touchdowns with his legs. Kaep has tucked the ball and run an average of five times per game in the last seven games, but has gained more than 25 yards in a game just once in that span.

Now he and his reeling 49ers teammates get to travel to Seattle, where Wilson and the Seahawks' 11th-ranked defensive unit in Adjusted Defensive Passing Net Expected Points (NEP) - a ranking that's improved dramatically since about Week 5 - wait for him. From Week 8 on, the Seahawks have not allowed opposing passers to accumulate more than 11 fantasy points in a week, including Week 13, when they embarrassed the 49ers by allowing Kaepernick just one fantasy point. If you have a playoff matchup on the line, don't do this to yourself.