Getting Defensive: 2024 Week 11

We’re in the thick of it now. In most fantasy football leagues, just one month remains in the regular season. Four games to determine who moves on to the playoffs and who calls it a year well before Christmas.

The stretch run has arrived.

After 10 weeks, the team defense landscape looks like exactly no one suspected – which is frankly par for the course where defenses are concerned. The No. 1 defense (the Minnesota Vikings) thrives on big plays but can’t cover a bed with a sheet some weeks. The No. 2 defense in terms of points per game (the Los Angeles Chargers) was an afterthought in drafts. Many of the defenses that were drafted early are fantasy afterthoughts now.

It’s the nature of the beast at fantasy’s least predictable position. The reason why streaming defenses is the only way to fly. But fantasy managers don’t want the streaming speech right now. They want to know what defenses can help (or hurt) them in Week 11. They want to live in the now.

So, let’s get defensive.

THE NO-DOUBTERS

Minnesota Vikings (at Tennessee Titans)

This is such a “perfect storm” situation that something weird will probably happen – fantasy football’s highest-scoring defense taking on the team that has given up the most fantasy points per game to defenses this season. No team in the NFC has allowed fewer yards per game on the ground this season. Only the New England Patriots have thrown for fewer yards per game this season than the Titans. The Titans have also allowed 28 sacks and are tied for the third-most giveaways in the NFL in 2024. As was said, this matchup is almost too good to be true.

Denver Broncos (vs. Atlanta Falcons)

The Broncos have exceeded expectations this season, largely because the defense has been consistently excellent – Denver ranks fifth in total defense, seventh in run defense, fourth in scoring defense and leads all AFC defenses in total fantasy points. On paper at least, the Atlanta Falcons would appear to have the skill-position talent to…

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Publish date : 2024-11-12 09:51:52

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