A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Change is inevitable. Since it is a fact of life, it is only fair
that it should apply to fantasy football player rankings. So it
probably goes without saying that in just one week, my Big Boards
have changed drastically. And when next week’s Big Board is
published, there’s a good chance that board will look nothing
like the one I submitted just last week.
Fantasy football veterans understand the volatility of the market
in mid-August, which goes a long way in explaining why so many adjustments
need to be made in such a short amount of time. Sometimes, however,
my Big Board will change simply because I have taken another week
to collect information to strengthen my case for one set of players.
In other situations, I saw what I needed to see from a player in
the preseason or simply had a change of heart about his situation
that allowed me to support him. But more than anything, taking another
seven days to reassess the fantasy landscape sometimes is enough
to lead to a makeover of the Big Board.
In an effort to make sure I am not affected by
last week’s rankings, I start from scratch the next week
once I finish a Big Board (only referring to the “old”
one when I refer to how much a player’s stock has increased/decreased).
And don’t think for a second that my Big Boards stay the same
once I have submitted the third and final one. Breaking news and
other information obtained in the minutes and hours prior to a draft
– and sometimes even during a draft – can lead to a
shift in thinking. While some may feel that statement is a bit extreme,
the truth is that owners cannot always take a day to collect their
thoughts about how they feel about a season-ending injury, change
in job status, trade or free agent pickup that decides to occur
as your league is having its draft.
Because I will submit one final Big Board next week, I will continue
to treat Maurice Jones-Drew and Mike Wallace as players who will
report to their teams soon. If their situation remains unchanged
at this time next week, they should be considered extreme risks.
There’s a very good chance that I will not draft either player
this season anyway, but missing the entirety of the preseason and
the installation of new offenses – not to mention that neither
player can be in “football shape” – will probably
push them into RB3 and WR4 status in my rankings.
As I have mentioned many times before over the years, "value"
in drafting is key. Need has to outweigh value on occasion, but
for the most part, it can't hurt to take the best player left on
the board. It is understanding the delicate balance of realizing
a player is too good to pass up and knowing exactly when the last
spot in your likely Week 1 starting lineup needs to be filled that
often separates the great drafters from the very good ones. And
it is with both need and value in mind that I present my "Big
Board" in an attempt to earn both the respect and envy of your
fellow fantasy leaguers in 2012.
Before I get to the boards, though, I would like to remind each
of my readers about a few key points:
1) my “Big Boards” are not going to look like many other
draft boards you see. My method of evaluating fantasy players relies
heavily on consistency and matchups, not on overall fantasy point
total projections. All too often, fantasy owners and even the so-called
"experts" get hung up by the final numbers. Don't get
me wrong, I want all my players to have 300+ points at the end of
the season. But as the old saying goes, "It's not about the
destination, it's about the journey"; if my RB1 gives me seven
spectacular performances along with six duds during the regular
season, there's a fairly decent chance I may end up 7-6. I don’t
want that and neither should you.
2) I will push a player down my board
if feel he is a health risk or if I simply don’t/can’t
trust him. If you take the time to break down each position
I provide below, you will notice that I don’t follow the point
totals or averages to a tee. (Think of the average and value I provide
for each player as a starting point for my rankings.) Outside of
trust issues, I will push a player down my board – despite
a higher average or overall point total – if I believe he
will simply be less consistent throughout the season or if his playoff
schedule appears treacherous.
3) I would like to direct your attention to one other significant
change from seasons past. If a player is a moderate risk –
be it due to holdout, injury, off-field, etc. – your will
see a 
next his name. If I feel a player is a severe risk, your will see
a 
next to his name. While I feel like I have accounted for each player’s
“risk” with their spot on the Big Board, you may be
more or less inclined to deal with that risk than I am. This is
just another way of helping you take a look at the board and quickly
identifying how many players are relatively decent bets to frustrate
you at some point this season.
Note: At least for
this first set of Big Boards, I have chosen to stop at 175 players.
Next week – my third and final installment of The Big Boards
– will feature 200 players and a few tweaks I am looking forward
to sharing with you.
Let’s revisit the color-coding system before we start:
Red – A very difficult
matchup. For lower-level players, a red matchup means they should
not be used in fantasy that week. For a second- or third-tier player,
drop your expectations for them at least one grade that week (i.e.
from WR2 to WR3). For elite players, expect them to perform one
level lower than their usual status (i.e. RB1 performs like a RB2).
Yellow – Keep expectations
fairly low in this matchup. For lower-level players, a yellow
matchup is a borderline start at best. For a second- or third-tier
player, they can probably overcome the matchup if things fall
right. For the elite players, expect slightly better than average
production.
White– Basically, this matchup
is one that could go either way. In some cases, I just don’t
feel like I have a good feel yet for this defense. Generally speaking,
these matchups are winnable matchups for all levels of players.
Green – It doesn’t
get much better than this. For non-elite players, the stage is
basically set for said player to exploit the matchup. For the
elite player, this matchup should produce special numbers..
Key:
OVR – Overall Rank
PR – Position Rank
FPts – Fantasy points scored
FPts/ G – Fantasy points/game
Value - Read *** below
***In short, the value that you will see below is based on the VORP
(Value Over Replacement Player) concept for a two-RB, two-WR league
with a flex spot, which allows me to essentially compare apples
and oranges. At QB and TE, the value reflects the standard deviation
from the 12th player at the position – the last starting-caliber
player at the position. At RB and WR, the standard deviation is
based on the 36th player at the position. Unlike
last year, I make no assumptions about what position owners would
prefer at their flex spot. One last note to mention regarding
the values – numbers that are bolded reflect positive values
while the italicized numbers are essentially negative. (For the
more statistically-inclined, the former values are on the right
side of the bell curve while the latter values are on the left side.)
Here is the scoring
system that I used to rank the players in the PPR format (the
non-PPR board below will use the same scoring minus the full-point
point-per-reception):
Because change is the theme of this week, I will focus mainly
the biggest risers and fallers from last week.
Top 25: Aside from maybe Adrian Peterson,
you’d be hard-pressed to find a more imposing physical specimen
at the running back position than Steven Jackson. Additionally,
given the sorry state of the Rams’ franchise for the majority
of time he has been in St. Louis, Jackson could have easily become
a distraction. Instead, he has consistently churned out 1,000-yard
and 40-catch seasons in relative anonymity for most of his career,
becoming a rather durable player (two total games missed in three
years after missing four games in each of the two previous seasons)
in the process. We all know the Rams aren’t challenging for
the Lombardi Trophy this year, but would anyone really be surprised
if Jackson posted 1,600+ total yards for the fourth time in his
career and scored at least six touchdowns this season after doing
so in each of the last two seasons for offenses much worse than
this one should be? Skeptics will suggest that rookie Isaiah Pead
will stop one – if not both – of those benchmarks from
being reached, but in a year where so many RBs are injury risks
or in committees, Jackson stands as one of the true feature backs
in the game that can be had after the top five picks and he will
likely be available well into the second round. And as far as draft
strategy goes, I’d be thrilled to land Darren McFadden and
Jackson at the 1-2 turn of a 12-team draft.
Up until two weeks ago, I was convinced that I would not be drafting
Jamaal Charles. After all, how can anyone defend the selection of
a player in the second round who relies on his incredible speed
and quickness coming off an ACL injury who is also sharing carries
with one of the most versatile power backs in the league? While
I’m not seeing his trademark explosion – I don’t
expect to see it at any point this season, for what it is worth
– Charles is showing me more lateral agility than I expected
him to have less than a year after the injury. That is a pretty
big deal for a player like Charles since he cannot rely on running
through tackles like his new teammate Peyton Hillis can. Since Kansas
City has Charles and Hillis earmarked for roughly 500 touches (31.25
per game), opportunity should not be a problem. Factor in what projects
to be one of the best run-blocking lines in the league and a schedule
that should be very forgiving against the run and, all of the sudden,
Charles is looking like a pretty good RB2 to own in 2012.
Two of my biggest risers from last week were players that I had
no intention moving up: Marshawn Lynch and A.J. Green. In Lynch’s
case, I simply took a little more time to analyze his situation
and concluded that I cannot hold the “knucklehead factor”
against him so much that I advise owners pass on him until the fourth
round. He’s one of the few feature backs in fantasy and I
saw him run with the same kind of vision and power this past weekend
against Denver that made him a revelation last season. In Green’s
case, it is clear that Andy Dalton will go to him regardless of
the coverage and/or situation. It’s a fact I needed to be
reminded of - and I was as I watched Dalton and Green connect repeatedly
against the Falcons, including a touchdown against Asante Samuel.
While I realize Samuel is not a shutdown corner, most quarterbacks
will not target him repeatedly because he is so instinctual. The
fact Dalton did speaks volumes about the trust he has in Green and
a trend I expect to continue since the Bengals appear content to
run a committee at receiver opposite Green.
26-50: We are nearing the point of
no return in regards to Maurice Jones-Drew’s fantasy stock.
Assuming he does not report to camp this week – which looks
like an extreme longshot at this point – owners need to move
him down about two rounds and consider Rashad Jennings as the new
feature back. In fact, I suspect MJD will probably be ranked as
a fifth-round value on my final Big Board if there is no evidence
the stalemate is over. Conversely, the dropping of his stock will
lead to the likely meteoric rise of Jennings, who has done nothing
but impress this summer. Already a candidate to rob MJD of some
of his fantasy value before the preseason even started, Jennings
can probably already be considered as the Jags’ lead back
through the first five pre-bye games of the season right now. I
have him in the eighth-round area right now and he’ll probably
move up another 3-4 rounds in one more week if nothing changes with
MJD.
Another big riser this week is Reggie Bush. While I would bet good
money that he doesn’t come anywhere close to reaching his
stated goal of leading the NFL in rushing this year, I tend to believe
he will be a big part of whatever offense Miami mounts this season.
I also have enough confidence in the Dolphins offensive braintrust
(HC Joe Philbin and OC Mike Sherman) that Miami will not overexpose
Bush and use him in the fashion that he should be used – a
complementary runner that creates mismatches in the passing game.
I still believe Daniel Thomas will be this team’s leading
rusher – and possible goal-line back – by the end of
the season, but in this full-point-per-reception format, I expect
Bush to actually improve on his fantasy production from last season
because he’ll finish with more receptions than he has in years.
51-100: Please tell me the RB position
hasn’t gotten so thin that Kevin Smith is worth a fifth-round
pick. Granted, I’m a little less frosty towards Smith’s
injury history than most – particularly since he helped me
win my big-money league last year – but some running back
in Detroit is going to have value in PPR leagues this year. And
given that the other realistic options haven’t practiced lately
(Mikel LeShoure) or are being held out of practice with a good chance
to start the season on the PUP list (Jahvid Best), Smith is almost
the RB to own by default. Bear in mind that Smith has little chance
of being featured in this offense – either because LeShoure
or Keiland Williams will steal snaps – but as the most trusted
and healthy passing-down back in this offense, Smith is bound to
be on the receiving end of a lot of swing passes and check downs
from Matthew Stafford.
One player that has impressed me mightily through two preseason
games is Donald Brown. Sure, many of us remember the dump-off pass
than turned into Andrew Luck’s first touchdown pass as a pro,
but the explosion he is showing right now probably reminds the Colts
of the back they thought they were getting in the first round of
the 2009 draft out of UConn. More than that, however, is the toughness
with which is he running. While my opinion has not changed in regards
to rookie Vick Ballard eventually taking over lead-back duties,
perhaps that torch does not get passed until next year. Given the
fact Ballard himself has been impressive, I think a 50-35-15 (Brown-Ballard-Delone
Carter/Mewelde Moore) split is probably a pretty good estimate on
how the backfield touches will be divided. Bear in mind that 2011
was the first time in Brown’s three-year NFL career that he
played more than 13 games (he still has not exceeded 150 touches
in a season yet), so don’t go overboard on drafting him. And
if you draft Brown, do yourself a favor and draft Ballard as well.
101-175: I’m going to apologize
now for my current stance on Cedric Benson: I won’t have any
idea how to project him until next week. Early reports out of Green
Bay suggest the coaching staff thinks he’ll be a good fit
in their zone-based running scheme and that he showed “fresh
legs”. Both of those assessments make a ton of sense considering:
1) he just signed after everyone else had been in camp two-plus
weeks and 2) that he just finished a four-year stint with the Bengals,
who use a similar zone-blocking scheme. Here’s the problem:
he has virtually no upside and I can’t convince myself that
he’ll remain with the team for the entire season. Benson is
a poor option at the goal line, offers next to nothing as a receiver
in the passing game (in a passing offense, mind you) and probably
is less capable of breaking a big play than Ryan Grant was last
season. James Starks (turf toe) is still the best back the Packers
– when healthy – while Alex Green has the best combination
of receiving skills and upside. There’s a good chance Green
will soon be the best Green Bay RB to own in PPR leagues, but I
don’t think we can say the same about Benson.
If I had the slightest bit of faith that Malcom Floyd would stay
healthy all season long, there’s a pretty good chance I would
move him into the top 100, if not the top 75. Following Vincent
Brown’s ankle injury (likely to keep him out eight weeks),
the door is open again for Floyd to be the big-play receiver in
this offense as Philip Rivers and Robert Meachem continue to struggle
with their chemistry during the preseason. But at some point, Floyd’s
supporters must face the fact that he has played just one 16-game
season in his eight-year NFL career and never exceeded 45 catches.
His 11 TDs over the past two seasons make him worthy of a roster
spot in non-PPR leagues and while he has shown he can be a force
when he plays, he simply cannot be counted on for any length of
time. In my experience, that matches my description of a fantasy
WR4, which is exactly why I have ranked as the last WR4 on my PPR
board.
Top 25: : Let’s get one thing
out of the way right away – I don’t believe in the “Madden
Curse”. (In fact, I don’t like even mentioning it here
since acknowledging it suggests that it is real.) Generally speaking,
my take on the “Madden Curse” is the phenomenon that
happens when a player essentially fails to improve on a career year
– something that shouldn’t be expected to happen in
the first place. Since they first started with the Madden franchise,
EA Sports – or the fans more recently – has typically
selected injury-prone players (Marshall Faulk and Michael Vick come
immediately to mind) or players coming off huge workloads the season
before (Shaun Alexander and Hillis, for example). This brings me
back to this year’s cover boy, Calvin Johnson. After watching
both of the Lions’ preseason games so far, I’m getting
a bad feeling about Megatron and it has nothing to do with talent,
supporting cast or the schedule; it has to do with the way he is
being tackled. At 6-5 and about 235 pounds, Johnson is roughly about
40-50 pounds heavier than most of the defensive backs covering him.
This leaves players that aren’t used to tackling such a large
man – and have no means by which to improve that skill thanks
to the new CBA – using any means necessary to bring him down.
The reason I mention this is that in each of the two Detroit games
I have watched so far, at least one defensive back tackling Johnson
has tackled him at an awkward angle (usually grabbing him around
the front of his shoulders and using their body weight to bring
him down). I realize I cannot recommend owners drop him on their
draft boards due to the way he is being tackled or my paranoia regarding
it, but I will ask each of you to watch Detroit’s next preseason
game and see if you feel my fears have any merit to them.
After suggesting most of the summer that Doug Martin had a great
shot of being the best rookie runner in this class, I followed through
this week. I recognize it is a bold move to rank him as highly as
I currently have, but after watching the Bucs for a second time
this preseason, I have little doubt Martin will be the lead back
sooner than later. In no way am I suggesting LeGarrette Blount will
be phased out at any point, but just like with Kansas City above,
this backfield will enough touches to make two backs happy. The
difference is that Martin should be more efficient as a runner than
Blount AND receive the majority of passing-down work. Although Martin
is a less explosive version of Ray Rice, the comparisons to the
former pupil of HC Greg Schiano are apt. There’s no doubt
Martin would be a late third-round fantasy option in most years,
but as a healthy and talented RB in 2012 with a team committed to
running the ball, Martin warrants second-round consideration and
would be a steal in the third.
26-50: In light of making Dez Bryant
as my No. 3 non-PPR receiver last week, I took a little time to
re-evaluate the WR landscape. Ultimately, his “fall”
from the initial Big Board has little to do with him and more to
do with the obvious risk that comes along with his potential reward.
It goes without saying that none of the six receivers ahead of him
carry nearly as much risk as he does, so his drop is my admission
that I ranked him too high before. While his potential off-field
issues will continue to be a concern, his injury risk is less than
the one that owners face with Andre Johnson and Hakeem Nicks, which
makes his WR7 ranking much more palatable in my mind. If Bryant
manages to play all 16 games this season, I believe this ranking
will represent his fantasy floor.
Most of you know I have been recommending Brandon
Lloyd for some time now. I mention him now as an example of
just how deep the receiver position is now. I currently have Lloyd’s
15-game projection set at 960 yards and 10 touchdowns, putting him
on pace for 1,024 yards and potentially 11 scores for the season.
Yet, he is just my 15th-best receiver and the point could definitely
be made that Jordy
Nelson and Steve
Smith belong in front of him, if not also Greg
Jennings and Percy
Harvin. Even with the explosive passing numbers in 2011, Lloyd’s
16-game projected fantasy point total of 168.4 would have put him
in 11th place last season, which is a different way of saying that
I expect the passing numbers to continue trending upward across
the league. If you believe Lloyd can be a fantasy WR1 this year
– as I do – it is just further confirmation that it is acceptable
(and maybe even advisable) to wait until the 4th-5th round to grab
your first receiver. If an owner can come out of the first three
rounds with a solid RB-QB-RB trio, he/she should expect to land
a pair of receivers like Lloyd, Smith, Demaryius
Thomas or even Miles
Austin – any two of which should keep owners very competitive
at the position.
51-100: It probably goes without saying
that Mike Wallace is to receivers what Jones-Drew is to running
backs in the sense that we have a top 10 player at his position
in contract limbo. Like MJD, there seems to be no concern about
his conditioning should he report to camp in the near future. Unlike
MJD, the likelihood that Wallace reports to camp soon appears to
be much better. Still, until Wallace actually does make it to camp,
I can’t justify ranking him ahead of Antonio Brown or the
28 other receivers I have in front of him. Unlike many fantasy owners,
I do not buy into the notion that Brown is the receiver to own in
Pittsburgh – especially in non-PPR leagues – based on
the second half of last season. What I do know, however, is that
between the time he has spent away from the offense (and the implementation
of new OC Todd Haley’s schemes) and the Steelers’ early
schedule, it is probably not a good idea to count on WR1 numbers
from Wallace any time before October.
One of my favorite WR3 options before the season started, Denarius
Moore is now on the verge of becoming a high-upside but injury-prone
fantasy WR4. As often happens in the NFL, one man’s misfortune
(in this case, Moore and his balky hamstring) leads to another man’s
opportunity. While I highly doubt Moore will be losing his starting
job at any point in the near future, his lack of a full preseason
makes Darrius Heyward-Bey the clear top receiver in Oakland for
now. Moore’s absence (as well as Jacoby Ford’s own injury)
has also given impressive undrafted free agent Rod Streater and
fifth-round rookie Juron Criner plenty of time to shine. Considering
that Moore also had troubles staying healthy as a rookie, perhaps
he needs to be viewed as a higher-upside version of Malcom Floyd
for the time being.
101-175: If last weekend was any indication,
Alshon Jeffery has a pretty fair shot of being the best rookie receiver
in this class, along with Kendall Wright and maybe Justin Blackmon.
In a balanced Bears’ offense where Jeffery is no better than
the third option on most passing plays (behind Brandon Marshall
and Matt Forte), I find it difficult to place him much higher on
the list than I have him. Still, very few defenses will have a shot
at defending him if he continues to use his big body the way he
did against the Redskins. My best guess at this point is that Jeffery
will be an inconsistent fantasy WR4 that will post 5-6 noteworthy
games thanks to his likely red-zone contributions, but one look
at his second-half schedule tells me that he could sneak into WR3
territory if has earned the trust of Jay Cutler by that point.
I’m not ready to push Austin Collie off either board quite
yet, but his fourth concussion in 21 months raises serious concerns
about his long-term health. Obviously, long-term health take priority
over everything else, but issues such as Collie’s concussion
history certainly affect fantasy projections as well. Maybe Collie
returns in time for Week 1, but the lingering concern about yet
another concussion makes him the same kind of risk that Sidney Rice
and Kenny Britt are. It is his history with concussions that drops
him exactly 50 spots and bumps Reggie Wayne up 14 spots from last
week’s Big Board. On a related note, it seems pretty clear
that Andrew Luck will allow two receivers to be relevant in fantasy
right away, so if Collie – who appeared to be Luck’s
favorite target – is unable to go, then it is time to consider
Wayne a potential top 25 receiver once again and rookie LaVon Brazill
as an interesting sleeper candidate with bigger-than-you’d-think
upside.
Considering new OC Brian Schottenheimer’s track record with
Dustin Keller, owners need to give Lance Kendricks at least one
more chance. Like many others, I fooled myself into believing that
Kendricks would lead a receiver-starved Rams passing offense as
a rookie last season and was burned for it. Fast forward to this
season and most fantasy owners will undoubtedly hold 2011 against
any and all Rams players. Admittedly, putting Kendricks at No. 175
on both lists hardly qualifies as a bold move, but much of the blame
for St. Louis’ woes last season can be placed on Josh McDaniels’
insistence that St. Louis use seven-step drops behind a porous offensive
line, instead of the three- and five-step drops that helped Sam
Bradford excel in 2010. The change back to the “old”
philosophy in 2012 should make Bradford more comfortable and, by
extension, help Kendricks overcome his drop-filled rookie campaign.
As promised, let’s pay our respects to the kickers and defense/special
teams units that help us decide our fantasy fates each and every
season…once again, these are 15-game projections.
And now the defenses…
Bonus determined by the following benchmarks:
10 points for shutout or held to 2 points
7 points if held from 3-6 points
4 points if held from 7-12 points
2 points if held from 13-16 points
1 points if held from 17-20 points
0 points if held from 21-28 points
-1 point if give up 29-34 points
-3 points if give up 35+ points
| Defense/Special
Teams |
| Rk |
Team |
Value |
FPts/G |
FPts |
PA |
Sks |
INT |
Fum |
TD |
Bonus |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
| 1 |
49ers |
2.12 |
11.3 |
169 |
237 |
45 |
20 |
13 |
24 |
34 |
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| 2 |
Texans |
1.23 |
10.0 |
150 |
246 |
44 |
21 |
11 |
18 |
24 |
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| 3 |
Falcons |
0.75 |
9.3 |
140 |
307 |
38 |
25 |
8 |
24 |
12 |
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| 4 |
Packers |
0.66 |
9.2 |
138 |
389 |
44 |
25 |
8 |
30 |
-2 |
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| 5 |
Eagles |
0.66 |
9.2 |
138 |
345 |
48 |
18 |
12 |
24 |
6 |
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| 6 |
Bears |
0.66 |
9.2 |
138 |
327 |
38 |
16 |
11 |
36 |
10 |
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| 7 |
Bills |
0.52 |
9.0 |
135 |
315 |
44 |
18 |
11 |
24 |
13 |
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| 8 |
Chiefs |
0.38 |
8.8 |
132 |
279 |
34 |
20 |
8 |
24 |
18 |
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| 9 |
Steelers |
0.19 |
8.5 |
128 |
242 |
40 |
14 |
10 |
12 |
28 |
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| 10 |
Broncos |
0.05 |
8.3 |
125 |
350 |
40 |
16 |
12 |
24 |
5 |
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| 11 |
Lions |
0.05 |
8.3 |
125 |
408 |
44 |
17 |
12 |
30 |
-7 |
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| 12 |
Patriots |
0.00 |
8.3 |
124 |
348 |
36 |
19 |
11 |
24 |
4 |
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Giants |
0.09 |
8.1 |
122 |
370 |
44 |
17 |
14 |
18 |
-2 |
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Seahawks |
0.33 |
7.8 |
117 |
311 |
33 |
17 |
9 |
18 |
14 |
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Chargers |
0.33 |
7.8 |
117 |
322 |
40 |
13 |
9 |
24 |
9 |
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| 16 |
Jets |
0.38 |
7.7 |
116 |
338 |
39 |
17 |
12 |
12 |
7 |
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| 17 |
Ravens |
0.52 |
7.5 |
113 |
273 |
31 |
16 |
10 |
12 |
18 |
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| 18 |
Redskins |
0.90 |
7.0 |
105 |
348 |
41 |
13 |
11 |
12 |
4 |
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| 19 |
Cardinals |
1.18 |
6.6 |
99 |
377 |
41 |
12 |
9 |
18 |
-2 |
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| 20 |
Jaguars |
1.23 |
6.5 |
98 |
330 |
33 |
13 |
10 |
12 |
7 |
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| 21 |
Rams |
1.37 |
6.3 |
95 |
378 |
38 |
13 |
8 |
18 |
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| 22 |
Vikings |
1.46 |
6.2 |
93 |
419 |
46 |
8 |
13 |
12 |
-7 |
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| 23 |
Cowboys |
1.46 |
6.2 |
93 |
368 |
40 |
12 |
11 |
6 |
1 |
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| 24 |
Bengals |
1.46 |
6.2 |
93 |
337 |
35 |
9 |
11 |
12 |
6 |
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| 25 |
Raiders |
1.51 |
6.1 |
92 |
419 |
37 |
11 |
11 |
18 |
-7 |
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| 26 |
Titans |
1.56 |
6.1 |
91 |
389 |
34 |
12 |
9 |
18 |
-3 |
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| 27 |
Browns |
1.70 |
5.9 |
88 |
379 |
29 |
15 |
10 |
12 |
-3 |
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| 28 |
Panthers |
1.89 |
5.6 |
84 |
398 |
33 |
12 |
11 |
12 |
-7 |
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| 29 |
Colts |
1.98 |
5.5 |
82 |
433 |
34 |
10 |
11 |
18 |
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| 30 |
Bucs |
2.40 |
4.9 |
73 |
417 |
27 |
7 |
9 |
18 |
-4 |
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Saints |
2.50 |
4.7 |
71 |
429 |
30 |
11 |
8 |
12 |
-9 |
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| 32 |
Dolphins |
2.83 |
4.3 |
64 |
443 |
30 |
11 |
7 |
6 |
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Doug Orth has written for FF Today
since 2006, appeared in USA Today’s Fantasy Football Preview
magazine in each of the last two seasons and served as a weekly
fantasy football analyst for 106.7 The Fan (WJFK – Washington,
D.C). He is also a member of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. |
