Fantasy Football Matchup Analyzer: Week 14

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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• WR
• TE
• K
• DEF

Easiest Matchups

1. New York Giants at San Diego (allows 24.8 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 David Wilson, RB2 Andre Brown, RB3 Da'Rel Scott, RB4 Henry Hynoski, RB5 Ryan Torain
2. New York Jets vs. Oakland (allows 23.5 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Chris Ivory, RB2 Mike Goodson, RB3 Bilal Powell, RB4 Joe McKnight, RB5 John Griffin
3. St. Louis at Arizona (allows 23.3 points per game to RBs)
   RB2 Isaiah Pead, RB2 Daryl Richardson, RB3 Zac Stacy
4. Indianapolis at Cincinnati (allows 22.9 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Ahmad Bradshaw, RB2 Vick Ballard, RB3 Donald Brown, RB4 Kerwynn Williams
5. Cincinnati vs. Indianapolis (allows 20.7 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 BenJarvus Green-Ellis, RB2 Giovani Bernard, RB3 Rex Burkhead, RB5 Cedric Peerman
6. Tennessee at Denver (allows 20.5 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Chris Johnson, RB2 Shonn Greene, RB4 Darius Reynaud
7. Jacksonville vs. Houston (allows 20.4 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Maurice Jones-Drew, RB3 Denard Robinson, RB3 Justin Forsett
8. Cleveland at New England (allows 20.0 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Trent Richardson, RB2 Montario Hardesty, RB3 Dion Lewis, RB4 Chris Ogbonnaya
9. Kansas City at Washington (allows 20.0 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Jamaal Charles, RB2 Knile Davis, RB4 Shaun Draughn, RB4 Cyrus Gray
10. Denver vs. Tennessee (allows 19.9 points per game to RBs)
    RB1 Montee Ball, RB2 Ronnie Hillman, RB3 Knowshon Moreno, RB4 Jacob Hester, RB5 Lance Ball

Toughest Matchups

1. Miami at Pittsburgh (allows 13.8 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Lamar Miller, RB2 Mike Gillislee, RB2 Daniel Thomas
2. San Diego vs. New York Giants (allows 13.8 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Ryan Mathews, RB2 Danny Woodhead, RB3 Ronnie Brown, RB4 Le'Ron McClain
3. Oakland at New York Jets (allows 13.8 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Darren McFadden, RB2 Marcel Reece, RB3 Latavius Murray, RB4 Taiwan Jones, RB5 Jeremy Stewart
4. New England vs. Cleveland (allows 14.0 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Stevan Ridley, RB2 Shane Vereen, RB3 LeGarrette Blount, RB4 Brandon Bolden, RB5 Leon Washington
5. Minnesota at Baltimore (allows 14.0 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Adrian Peterson, RB2 Toby Gerhart
6. Arizona vs. St. Louis (allows 15.3 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Rashard Mendenhall, RB2 Ryan Williams, RB3 Andre Ellington, RB3 Stepfan Taylor
7. Chicago vs. Dallas (allows 16.5 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Matt Forte, RB2 Michael Bush, RB3 Armando Allen
8. Baltimore vs. Minnesota (allows 16.6 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Ray Rice, RB2 Bernard Pierce, RB4 Anthony Allen
9. Houston at Jacksonville (allows 16.7 points per game to RBs)
   RB1 Arian Foster, RB2 Ben Tate, RB3 Greg Jones, RB3 Javarris Williams, RB4 Deji Karim
10. Philadelphia vs. Detroit (allows 16.9 points per game to RBs)
    RB1 LeSean McCoy, RB2 Bryce Brown, RB3 Felix Jones, RB4 Chris Polk