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In this edition of Fact or Fluke, we’re going to look ahead to a Week 14 that is going to try some fantasy managers’ patience and skills. Six teams are on bye, and five of them (Baltimore, Washington, Indianapolis, Houston and Denver) have players we rely heavily upon. New England, the sixth, has supplied a spot starter or two in deeper leagues.
Many of us have benches full of injured or questionable players, especially coming off a rough Week 13. All of us are carrying certain players with a range of outcomes so wide that we can’t quite drop them, but we can’t quite bring ourselves to start them either most weeks. On top of that, the recent slate of games may have opened up some new opportunities in the backup running back department.
Bucky Irving and Chase Brown are in full takeover mode for their backfields, while Chris Rodriguez Jr., Ray Davis and Sincere McCormick saw an uptick in action. On the other hand, a lot of our fantasy faithful find themselves in really ugly matchups this week; Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle, Garrett Wilson and Davante Adams, Puka Nacua and Cooper Kupp, to name a few. Josh Jacobs and Bijan Robinson have an uphill battle at RB, so we really need some solid-with-upside options to round out our rosters this week.
We’ll go position by position to figure out who’s a safe fill-in for your Week 14 bye/injury woes.
Remember: this is the final push to the playoffs for most leagues.
QB: Sam Darnold, Minnesota Vikings
Darnold is fantasy’s QB8 on the season, averaging 18.1 fantasy points per game; he was started in just 33% of leagues in Week 13 (rostered in 70% of leagues). If you’re the person holding Darnold, it’s likely for this week. The Vikings get to host the Falcons this weekend, and Atlanta is the seventh-best QB matchup. Even in tougher situations (Detroit, Chicago), Darnold has been able to come through.
His two really terrible outings (Jets in Week 5 and inexplicably, Jaguars in Week 10) are outliers. I’m with you on the…
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Publish date : 2024-12-03 16:30:00
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