Fantasy Football Matchup Analyzer: Week 8

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. Pittsburgh at Oakland (allows 10.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Heath Miller, TE2 Matt Spaeth
2. New Orleans vs. Buffalo (allows 10.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jimmy Graham, TE2 Ben Watson
3. St. Louis vs. Seattle (allows 9.0 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jared Cook, TE2 Lance Kendricks
4. Minnesota vs. Green Bay (allows 8.9 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Kyle Rudolph, TE2 John Carlson, TE3 Rhett Ellison
5. Kansas City vs. Cleveland (allows 8.6 points per game to TEs)
   TE2 Travis Kelce, TE2 Anthony Fasano, TE3 Tony Moeaki
6. Denver vs. Washington (allows 8.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jacob Tamme, TE2 Joel Dreessen, TE3 Virgil Green
7. Philadelphia vs. New York Giants (allows 8.0 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Brent Celek, TE2 Zach Ertz, TE3 James Casey
8. Seattle at St. Louis (allows 7.7 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Zach Miller, TE2 Anthony McCoy
9. Tampa Bay vs. Carolina (allows 7.6 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Luke Stocker, TE2 Tom Crabtree
10. New York Giants at Philadelphia (allows 7.3 points per game to TEs)
    TE1 Brandon Myers, TE2 Adrien Robinson, TE3 Bear Pascoe

Toughest Matchups

1. Buffalo at New Orleans (allows 0.0 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Scott Chandler, TE2 Lee Smith
2. Cincinnati vs. New York Jets (allows 0.0 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jermaine Gresham, TE2 Tyler Eifert, TE3 Alex Smith, TE4 Orson Charles
3. Jacksonville vs. San Francisco (allows 6.3 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Marcedes Lewis, TE2 Brett Brackett
4. Green Bay at Minnesota (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jermichael Finley
5. Oakland vs. Pittsburgh (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Richard Gordon, TE2 David Ausberry
6. Washington at Denver (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Fred Davis, TE2 Logan Paulsen, TE3 Jordan Reed, TE4 Niles Paul
7. Detroit vs. Dallas (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Brandon Pettigrew, TE2 Tony Scheffler
8. Atlanta at Arizona (allows 6.5 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Tony Gonzalez, TE2 Chase Coffman, TE3 Levine Toilolo
9. Cleveland at Kansas City (allows 6.7 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jordan Cameron, TE2 Kellen Davis
10. Arizona vs. Atlanta (allows 6.8 points per game to TEs)
    TE1 Robert Housler, TE2 Jeff King, TE3 Jim Dray