Sleepers, estimates, starts, and sits for Week 16 of Fantasy Football | Tyler Boyd, Joshua Palmer, and much more
It’s almost Christmas, and the best gift is still another win in fantasy football. Here are the Week 16 NFL fantasy football rankings, along with some sleepers and fun things that are good (and bad) about Christmas.
Let’s try to spread some joy.We carefully chose the Week 16 fantasy football rankings by looking at how players have done since Week 10.
We know that changes can have a big effect on a player’s performance, so we’re giving you the most up-to-date information to help that you make smart choices.
For each game, you highlight important matchups and players to keep an eye on. This gives you useful information about players who could do well or poorly and who you should start.
By reading our research, you can get a full picture of which teams are likely to dominate this week.
Our piece does more than just rank teams and positions; it also goes into great detail about trends and data for each one.
We have all the important information you need to make the right lineup decisions, from the percentage of touches by running backs to the percentage of team targets and yards per route run.
Are you looking for some picks that might not get much attention but could pay off big? There are two types of sleepers that we talk about in our article: “Woo-oo Worthy” and “Let’s Get Dangerous.”
These sleeper names will make your team more interesting, but they also come with more risk.
There isn’t much room for error in our Week 16 fantasy WR PPR rankings. They will help you get through the next around of the playoffs.
When a lot of top-tier wide receivers are out, it’s even more important to make the right lineup choices to keep your title hopes alive.
At least one important quarterback, C.J. Stroud (concussion), should be back this week. If the Jets decide that it’s worth the risk of including Aaron Rodgers (Achilles), we could be getting returned a future Hall of Famer.
For a role where you can never have enough sleepers, that would help make a few more of them.
Friends, welcome to Week 16! We’ll be here all week to give you your fantasy football short grades (or start/sit grades, if you’d rather).
To come up with this week’s quick grades, we used our consensus rankings and forecasts as well as Derek Brown’s weekly primer. The findings and notes that go with them can be found below.
The weekly non-PPR receiver fantasy football rankings on ESPN are a combination of our four rankings, which are shown in alphabetical order. Mike Clay, Tristan H. Cockcroft, Eric Karabell, or Eric Moody are their names.
We put out rankings every Tuesday for the week that take into account each player’s skills, their part in the offense, and the strength of that week’s opponents.
We change the rankings every week based on new information and research. Every Friday, players who played in Thursday’s game are taken out of the ranks.
It’s all about the games in fantasy football. You shouldn’t base your weekly starting choices on the order in which that you picked them, even if you did so with specific goals and hopes in mind. Check your players to make sure you have the right ones in and the wrong ones out.
It’s too early to say for sure which games will be easy and which ones will be tough, though we can get a good idea based on who is fit, how the defenses are set up, past records, and key offensive details.
The things that we comprehend can help us take less notice of the things we don’t know. We can make better decisions if we try to lessen the effect of what we don’t know.
We’ll look at each game and pick out players who might not be clear choices for who to start or sit (since starting Christian McCaffrey isn’t even worth mentioning).
With this information, you should feel better about starting or sitting players. And it’s the best feeling in the world to be happy with your fantasy team before the games start.
Also, keep a close eye on the matchups that are set by the rest of the program. I’m now updating my predicted Strength of Schedule numbers, which can be found on SportsLine and are broken down by position.
My goal is to break down how each player’s plan affects fantasy football for the next four weeks, the playoffs, and the rest of the season.
My main points about which people to buy low and sell high, as well as other trade tips, will be there for you.