Fantasy Football Gameday: Week 6

October 17, 2021 | Fantasy Football Gameday | 26 Comments

Imagine: there’s an alternate dimension out there where Drew Bledsoe stayed in the game and Tom Brady ended up signing as a backup QB with the Minnesota Vikings, where he took the field and handed off the ball on 3rd and 17 every time to line up for the optimal punt formation. At the age of 32, he retired to coach high school football in Nashville, but ultimately left football behind at age 39 because he had a chance to start a skydiving company in rural Arkansas with some college buddies. Bizarro Tom Brady is strapped to somebody’s back at 35,000 feet right now, waiting to plummet to earth. But our Tom Brady — the one that JB and MB love — is spending this Sunday getting pliable and expanding his cryptocurrency holdings after fending off the aerial assault of Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles, who packed the season up already by trading away — finally! — Zach Ertz. Will Zach Ertz play today? That’s a great question! Somebody let me know down in the comments. Maybe he could play for Bishop Sycamore. Come, gather round and get ready for week 6 of fantasy football!

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Defense Slot vs. Wide Analysis – Key Out Wide Matchups Week 6

October 16, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 3 Comments

by: Bobby LaMarco

The goal of this article is to find WRs to fade and buy based on how many fantasy points their opponent allows in the slot vs. out wide. In today’s article we will review the key out wide matchups for week 6.

The below chart breaks down where each team allows their fantasy points to WRs and is listed from the most to the least amount of fantasy points allowed out wide to WRs this season.

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Week 6 Injury Report: Jabroni World

by: Skorish

Is it me or are a lot of guys injured? Normally, I’d have some little cutsie intro to get into the carnage but sheesh, man! I don’t know about you but I’m getting killed out here! I actually sprained my right knee on a fishing boat last weekend and was listed as limited but here I am, dammit.

When I see the players I roster in person someday, I’m gonna tell them: If I can man up and type up a bunch of nonsense about fake football with a ligament injury, well then YOU GOTTA PLAY TOO, YOU BIG BABY!

As you can tell, this has been a tough week. Between my injury, all the injuries on my fantasy teams, and what’s happening to my Raiders… Well, we’ll get into that last part later.

And to add to the prevailing roster chaos we have our first bye week of the year! See you next week Jets, Falcons, 49ers, and Saints!

Let’s segue right into Sunday morning with an Intra-Florida showdown in London.

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Defense Slot vs. Wide Analysis – Key Slot Matchups Week 6

October 16, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy |

by: Bobby LaMarco

The goal of this article is to find wide receivers to fade and buy based on how many fantasy points their opponent allows in the slot vs. out wide. In today’s article we will review the key slot matchups for week 6.

The below chart breaks down where each team allows their fantasy points to wide receivers and is listed from the most to the least amount of fantasy points allowed to the slot this season.

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Snap To It: Snap Count Review, Week 5

October 15, 2021 | Snap Counts | 5 Comments

by: B_Don

Movin’ On Up

Cordarrelle Patterson saw a season high 59% snap rate to go along with all of his production to start the year.
Latavius Murray has lead the Ravens RBs in snaps for back to back weeks with 63% and 51%.
In what went from AFC ‘Ship Preview to blowout quickly (so to speak with a rain delay in the middle of it), Zack Moss had 74% of the snaps.
While Damien Williams got the score, it was Khalil Herbert that lead the Bears in snaps without David Montgomery available, and he saw 53% of the snaps in week 5.
For back to back weeks, D’Andre Swift has seen higher than 70% snaps.
With no Amendola, Chris Moore was the WR3 for the Texans this week at 63%. Could be something to monitor if they move Brandin Cooks.
After seeing only 32% of snaps in his first appearance since being acquired in week 4, Dan Arnold saw 74% of the snaps in week 5 for the Jags.
With Will Fuller and DeVante Parker out in week 5, Preston Williams saw 74% of the snaps and was 2nd on the team to only Jaylen Waddle.
Sans Dalvin Cook, the Vikings gave 66% to Alexander Mattison and 18% to Ameer Abdullah while using C.J. Ham more to block with a season high 48%.
Devine Ozigbo saw the 2nd most snaps for the Saints at RB with a whopping 13%.
Kenny Still saw a season high 71% of the snaps in week 5.
Devontae Booker saw 91% of the snaps with Saquon leaving early.
Quez Watkins was 2nd on the team in snaps for the first time all season, behind only DeVonta Smith.
Miles Sanders saw a season high 76% snap rate in week 5.
Alex Collins got 71% of the snaps without Chris Carson available for the Saints. DeeJay Dallas (22%) and Travis Homer (12%) split the remaining work.
Elijah Mitchell saw 68% of the RB snaps for the 49ers. No other RB (Kyle Juszczyk is a FB) saw more than 5%.

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Brady, Fournette Lead Buccaneers over Hurts, Eagles

October 15, 2021 | Fantasy Football Daily Notes |

by: JB Barry

At 44 years old, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is retired from professional boxing and Vince Carter is retired from professional basketball. Also 44 years old, John Cena and Brock Lesnar are no longer full-time professional wrestlers, making part time appearances. On the football field in this week’s Thursday Night Football game, we saw Tom Brady at 44 years old dueling it out with a quarterback who was born when Brady was in college. Brady won the battle against Jalen Hurts and the Eagles and is still out there performing at an elite level in the NFL. Arguably the greatest quarterback of all time, Tom Brady went out there on the national stage and methodically let the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to their 5th win of the season.

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Sortable Rest of Season Rankings for 2021 Fantasy Football: Week 6

October 15, 2021 | Rest of Season Rankings | 18 Comments

by: Donkey Teeth

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“But Donkey Teeth, didn’t you just provide us with very in-depth and meticulously curated positional rest of season rankings for 2021 fantasy football, week 6, only two days ago?” Why yes, dear reader, and thank you for noticing. This is not an error, nor an oversight. It was all very carefully thought out during my recent peyote ceremony with some local natives. While I do get the positional rest of season rankings to the press promptly each and every Tuesday, prior to waivers and FAAB, I also feel it’s important to provide more context later in the week to assist in trade negotiations and other important roster decisions. If you desperately need a running back and are rostering all of Keenan Allen, D.J. Moore and Diontae Johnson then my positional breakdown doesn’t help you to construct the perfectly reasonable trade offer for James Robinson or Joe Mixon. Now we also have the overall rankings table below to view positional valuations relative to other positions, while still having the option to sort by individual positions. The best of both worlds, which I tasted during that peyote trip. And over the past two days, I’ve also taken more time to refine these rankings after digesting more of the week one action and listening to some very valuable community feedback from you intelligent readers. The positional rankings from earlier in the week also delve a bit deeper into the rankings compared to this overall top 150 provided below. Anyway, here’s my sortable rest of season rankings for half PPR 2021 fantasy football:

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Air Yards Report, Week 5: Hop To The Top

October 14, 2021 | Air Yards Report |

by: CableBoxScore

Air Yards are the Gordon Ramsey of fantasy receiving stats. They tell us exactly what was right and clearly what was wrong with how a receiver performed in a given week. Often, it’s not easy to hear. But you as a fantasy manager need to pay attention to the under-the-hood numbers from your receivers instead of just blindly trusting the box score results, you donkey.

Each week, this column will dissect air yards for actionable info in the weeks to come. For Week 6, we will do a quick analysis of the list of the 84 wide receivers who finished last week with at least 30 air yards.

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Avoiding the Blurbstomp – It’s a Wonderful Wife

October 14, 2021 | Avoiding the Blurbstomp | 7 Comments

by: C.A. James

I can only assume you have read everyone else’s take on Adam Schefter, but it confirms what we’ve been postulating on this very very blurb column. In revealing that he allowed the Washington Football team’s then-president to edit an article about the Washington Football Team, it’s all out in the open now: Big Time Sports Journalists aren’t actually Journalists. Probably better for them in the long run, as most people associate the J-word with lapses in ethics, propaganda, and death threats at this point. In the world of Fantasy NFL blurbing, it has never been more apparent that “official team sources” from “reporters” should be questioned, not immediately blurbed as the gospel.

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IDP Waiver Wire Targets – Week 6

October 14, 2021 | IDP Waiver Wire Pickups |

by: Jordan Loupe

Bye weeks are upon us in the NFL, and this week fantasy managers will be without any Falcons, Saints, Jets, or 49ers. Over the next several weeks, depth becomes critical, and navigating the waiver wire appropriately is a necessity. Finding plug and play options can keep your team as close to full strength as possible, even when your typical starters are out. Read on to see my favorite waiver add at each position for IDP heading into Week 6.

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Week 6 Fantasy Football Primer

October 14, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 47 Comments

by: everywhereblair

With 5 weeks of fantasy football behind us and the blinding future of camaraderie and fellowship in front of us, I bring you the very best news that week 6 can offer. After shining my crystal ball using the remainder of Jon Gruden’s contract papers, I finally felt confident enough to walk up to Donkey Teeth and demand that I be rewarded with one of his NFT’s of Mr. Peanut. Much to my dismay, DT told me that I had no business consorting with the elite and powerful Anthropomorphic Character Union, of which Donkey Teeth was Undersecretary of Funny Business. Now that I’ve been rejected from yet another social clique — albeit one that came with an awful lot of animal dander and weekly shellings — I return to you with nothing but my hawt fantasy football takes for your perusal. Hopefully we keep our teams afloat this week!

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Target Report: Week 6

October 13, 2021 | Target Report | 17 Comments

by: Nic Romero

Weekly Refresh

Taking inventory of target share (TS) and snap share (SS) data is a critical tool to help with start-sit decisions, and provide a framework for buy-low/sell-high trade candidates. Every Wednesday the Target Report will highlight key TS/SS data and takeaways from the weekend.

Success in fantasy football is built around opportunity, especially consistent opportunity. Don’t get caught up only chasing fantasy points. Peyton Manning focused more on what happened between endzones versus what transpired on the scoreboard. It is important not to overreact to a poor fantasy outing when the usage is still there. Or overreact to a fantasy explosion for a player that barely found the field or was barely targeted in the game. Trust the data and trust the process…

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