Fantasy Football Matchup Analyzer: Week 5

This tool is not meant to be a replacement for our weekly player rankings, although matchups are taken into consideration for those as well. You shouldn't bench a stud player who has a difficult matchup or automatically start a fantasy backup who has an easy matchup. It's meant to be a helpful tool when deciding between two closely ranked players. The matchups are graded on how many fantasy points the opposing team surrendered to this position on average.

• QB
• RB
• WR
• TE
• K
• DEF

Easiest Matchups

1. Chicago vs. New Orleans (allows 9.6 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Robbie Gould (IR)
2. Baltimore at Miami (allows 8.9 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Justin Tucker
3. San Diego at Oakland (allows 8.9 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Nick Novak
4. Kansas City at Tennessee (allows 8.9 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Ryan Succop
5. Seattle at Indianapolis (allows 8.6 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Steven Hauschka (IR)
6. Green Bay vs. Detroit (allows 8.4 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Mason Crosby
7. Arizona vs. Carolina (allows 7.9 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Jay Feely
8. Cincinnati vs. New England (allows 7.7 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Mike Nugent (IR)
9. Atlanta vs. New York Jets (allows 7.5 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Matt Bryant
10. Cleveland vs. Buffalo (allows 7.2 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Shayne Graham, PK2 Brandon Bogotay

Toughest Matchups

1. Oakland vs. San Diego (allows 0.0 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Sebastian Janikowski
2. Dallas vs. Denver (allows 0.0 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Dan Bailey
3. Detroit at Green Bay (allows 0.0 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 David Akers
4. Jacksonville at St. Louis (allows 5.9 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Josh Scobee
5. New England at Cincinnati (allows 5.9 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Stephen Gostkowski
6. New Orleans at Chicago (allows 6.0 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Garrett Hartley
7. Carolina at Arizona (allows 6.2 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Graham Gano
8. Buffalo at Cleveland (allows 6.2 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Rian Lindell
9. Denver at Dallas (allows 6.3 points per game to Ks)
   PK1 Matt Prater
10. New York Jets at Atlanta (allows 6.3 points per game to Ks)
    PK1 Nick Folk