Fantasy Football Matchup Analyzer: Week 15

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. Cleveland vs. Chicago (allows 10.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jordan Cameron, TE2 Kellen Davis
2. Baltimore at Detroit (allows 10.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Dennis Pitta, TE2 Ed Dickson
3. New York Jets at Carolina (allows 9.8 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jeff Cumberland
4. Indianapolis vs. Houston (allows 9.1 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Coby Fleener, TE2 Dwayne Allen
5. San Francisco at Tampa Bay (allows 9.0 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Vernon Davis, TE2 Vance McDonald
6. New Orleans at St. Louis (allows 8.9 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jimmy Graham (Pro), TE2 Ben Watson
7. Kansas City at Oakland (allows 8.6 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Tony Moeaki, TE2 Anthony Fasano, TE3 Travis Kelce
8. San Diego at Denver (allows 8.3 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Antonio Gates, TE2 Ladarius Green, TE2 John Phillips (Pro)
9. Tampa Bay vs. San Francisco (allows 8.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Luke Stocker, TE2 Tom Crabtree
10. New York Giants vs. Seattle (allows 8.0 points per game to TEs)
    TE1 Brandon Myers, TE2 Bear Pascoe

Toughest Matchups

1. Denver vs. San Diego (allows 5.9 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jacob Tamme, TE2 Joel Dreessen, TE3 Virgil Green
2. Washington at Atlanta (allows 6.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Fred Davis (IR), TE2 Logan Paulsen, TE3 Jordan Reed, TE4 Niles Paul
3. Houston at Indianapolis (allows 6.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Owen Daniels, TE2 Garrett Graham
4. Chicago at Cleveland (allows 6.3 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Martellus Bennett, TE2 Steve Maneri, TE3 Evan Rodriguez
5. Miami vs. New England (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Dustin Keller, TE2 Charles Clay (IR), TE3 Michael Egnew
6. Dallas vs. Green Bay (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jason Witten, TE2 Gavin Escobar
7. Oakland vs. Kansas City (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Richard Gordon, TE2 David Ausberry
8. Buffalo at (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Scott Chandler (IR), TE2 Lee Smith
9. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (allows 6.5 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jermaine Gresham, TE3 Alex Smith, TE4 Orson Charles, TE4 Tyler Eifert
10. Carolina vs. New York Jets (allows 6.7 points per game to TEs)
    TE1 Greg Olsen, TE2 Ben Hartsock