Sunday morning has arrived and you spent all weekend on a drinking binge? Or worse (maybe better?), you’ve been up for 48 hours on six different types of drugs? Fear not, Razzball has all of your last-minute fantasy football needs covered. Over the past two days, Bobby has covered the best defensive matchups this week for both AFC and NFC fantasy wide receivers. Yesterday Skorish went through every fantasy-relevant injury to keep an eye on in his weekly Fantasy Football Injury Report. Down below I’ll give you some sneaky start options who might be available in your free agent pool if you’re in a bind, as well as my recently updated week 1 rankings for half PPR leagues. Feel free to ask me questions in the comments if you feel the rankings don’t address your specific circumstances. And please, please, please consider purchasing our 2021 fantasy football tools subscription. As intelligent and handsome as we all agree I am, my rankings are still packed full of bias and human error. Rudy’s computer model minimizes the human inputs and leans heavily on raw, untainted data inputs to provide a very valuable, differing viewpoint. Plus you receive all kinds of other benefits with your subscription including next-day snap count and target rate data. Anyway, here’s a few sneaky starts for week 1 of the 2021 fantasy football season:
Please, blog, may I have some more?If you haven’t read the first article on the AFC Home Games Click Here. That article provides an overview on what we are doing for this article.
The below chart outlines all the teams that are featured in the NFC home games in week 1 and listed by how many total fantasy points they allowed to the wide receiver position last season.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Well, my precious goblins and ghouls, the football season is finally upon us. And naturally, with that, I have the grave responsibility to inform you fine specimens of the injuries that can and will impact your Week 1 fantasy rosters.
Such is life.
Let’s jump in and see who might be available on your waiver or can receive a bump in production from the gaps left by these poor, hurt souls.
Shall we?
The first injury to look at is… *checks notes* Oh the entire Ravens backfield. That’s not good! In just a few days the Ravens have lost their breakout star J.K. Dobbins, Justice Hill, and the most recently Gus Edwards to terrible season-ending injuries. In response, the team has signed Latavius Murray along with Le’Veon Bell and Devonta Freeman to their practice squad presumably to try to keep Lamar from having to rush approximately 10,000,000 yards per game. As of now, it looks like the Ravens are going to start the last running back left standing before the leg injury bloodbath, Ty’Son Williams, who might just have an opportunity against an uncertain Raiders pass rush under new defensive coordinator Gus Bradley and a reshaped defense. Look for Latavius Murray and Ty’Son Williams as a possible pick-up in leagues you might have had one of the injured fellows in and if you are feeling very adventurous maybe take a look at Le’Veon Bell or Devonta Freeman for a possible bounce-back campaign. I’m still not betting on that though, sorry Blair.
Please, blog, may I have some more?In this article we will break down how many fantasy points a defense allows to wide receivers from the slot vs. out wide. The analysis will hopefully help us better identify which types of wide receivers to target each week based on where they see the most targets.
For week 1 we will review how the teams in the AFC home games faired vs. slot and outside wide receivers in 2020. We will then look at what has potentially changed from last season and what information could repeat in 2021. The below chart outlines all the teams that are featured in the AFC home games in week 1 and listed by how many total fantasy points they allowed to the wide receiver position last season.
| AFC HOME GAMES | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Slot PPG | Wide PPG | Total PPG | % Slot |
| TEN | 12.3 | 24.6 | 36.9 | 33% |
| SEA | 13.1 | 21.3 | 34.4 | 38% |
| MIN | 10.5 | 23.7 | 34.2 | 31% |
| HOU | 13.2 | 19.7 | 32.9 | 40% |
| CLE | 13.3 | 19.3 | 32.6 | 41% |
| MIA | 11.3 | 20.8 | 32.1 | 35% |
| JAX | 10.4 | 21.3 | 31.7 | 33% |
| LV | 13.4 | 18.2 | 31.6 | 42% |
| IND | 11.9 | 18.9 | 30.8 | 39% |
| CIN | 9 | 21.1 | 30.1 | 30% |
| ARI | 11.5 | 17.5 | 28.9 | 40% |
| PIT | 11.4 | 17 | 28.4 | 40% |
| NE | 10.6 | 17.6 | 28.2 | 38% |
| BUF | 8.8 | 17.6 | 26.4 | 33% |
| BAL | 9.9 | 16.3 | 26.2 | 38% |
| KC | 8.9 | 16.8 | 25.7 | 35% |