Fantasy Football Matchup Analyzer: Week 12

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.

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• RB
• WR
• TE
• K
• DEF

Easiest Matchups

1. San Francisco at (allows 24.8 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Frank Gore, RB2 Kendall Hunter (IR), RB3 LaMichael James, RB4 Marcus Lattimore
2. Tennessee at Oakland (allows 23.5 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Chris Johnson, RB2 Shonn Greene, RB4 Darius Reynaud
3. Indianapolis at Arizona (allows 23.3 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Vick Ballard, RB2 Donald Brown (IR), RB3 Delone Carter, RB4 Stanley Havili
4. Jacksonville at Houston (allows 22.9 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Maurice Jones-Drew (IR), RB3 Justin Forsett, WR6 Denard Robinson
5. Washington vs. San Francisco (allows 20.7 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Alfred Morris, RB2 Evan Royster, RB3 Roy Helu (IR), RB4 Chris Thompson, RB5 Darrel Young
6. New England vs. Denver (allows 20.4 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Stevan Ridley (Pro), RB2 Shane Vereen, RB3 LeGarrette Blount, RB4 Leon Washington, RB5 Brandon Bolden
7. Denver at New England (allows 20.0 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Willis McGahee (IR), RB2 Knowshon Moreno (Pro), RB3 Montee Ball, RB4 Ronnie Hillman, RB5 Jacob Hester
8. Pittsburgh at Cleveland (allows 20.0 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Jonathan Dwyer, RB2 Le'Veon Bell, RB3 Isaac Redman, RB4 LaRod Stephens-Howling
9. Tampa Bay at Detroit (allows 19.9 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Doug Martin, RB3 Mike James, RB3 Brian Leonard, RB4 Michael Smith
10. Arizona vs. Indianapolis (allows 19.1 points per game to RBs)
    RB2 Rashard Mendenhall, RB2 Ryan Williams (IR), RB3 Stepfan Taylor, RB4 Andre Ellington, RB5 William Powell

Toughest Matchups

1. Kansas City vs. San Diego (allows 13.8 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Jamaal Charles, RB2 Knile Davis, RB3 Shaun Draughn
2. New Orleans at Atlanta (allows 13.8 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Darren Sproles, RB2 Mark Ingram, RB2 Pierre Thomas (IR), RB4 Jed Collins
3. Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh (allows 13.8 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Trent Richardson (Pro), RB2 Montario Hardesty, RB3 Dion Lewis, RB4 Chris Ogbonnaya
4. Detroit vs. Tampa Bay (allows 14.0 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Reggie Bush, RB1 Mikel Leshoure, RB3 Joique Bell
5. Minnesota at Green Bay (allows 14.0 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Adrian Peterson, RB2 Toby Gerhart
6. Miami vs. Carolina (allows 15.3 points per game to RBs)
   RB2 Mike Gillislee, RB2 Lamar Miller, RB3 Daniel Thomas (IR)
7. Chicago at St. Louis (allows 16.5 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Matt Forte, RB2 Michael Bush (IR), RB3 Armando Allen
8. Dallas at New York Giants (allows 16.6 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 DeMarco Murray, RB2 Phillip Tanner, RB3 Lance Dunbar, RB4 Lawrence Vickers
9. New York Jets at Baltimore (allows 16.7 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Christopher Ivory, RB2 Mike Goodson, RB3 Bilal Powell, RB4 Joe McKnight, RB5 Lex Hilliard
10. Atlanta vs. New Orleans (allows 16.9 points per game to RBs)
    RB1 Steven Jackson, RB2 Jacquizz Rodgers, RB3 Jason Snelling, RB4 Ronnie Wingo, RB5 Antone Smith