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.

• QB
• RB
• WR
• TE
• K
• DEF

Easiest Matchups

1. Baltimore vs. Minnesota (allows 10.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Dennis Pitta, TE2 Ed Dickson
2. Oakland at New York Jets (allows 10.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Richard Gordon, TE2 David Ausberry
3. Indianapolis at Cincinnati (allows 9.8 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Coby Fleener, TE2 Dwayne Allen
4. New England vs. Cleveland (allows 9.1 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Rob Gronkowski (IR), TE2 Aaron Hernandez, TE3 Jake Ballard (Out), TE4 Daniel Fells
5. Houston at (allows 9.0 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Owen Daniels, TE2 Garrett Graham
6. Philadelphia vs. Detroit (allows 8.9 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Brent Celek, TE2 Zach Ertz, TE3 James Casey
7. Denver vs. Tennessee (allows 8.6 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jacob Tamme, TE2 Joel Dreessen, TE3 Virgil Green
8. Atlanta at Green Bay (allows 8.3 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Tony Gonzalez, TE2 Chase Coffman, TE3 Levine Toilolo
9. New York Giants at San Diego (allows 8.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Brandon Myers, TE2 Bear Pascoe
10. Carolina at New Orleans (allows 8.0 points per game to TEs)
    TE1 Greg Olsen, TE2 Ben Hartsock

Toughest Matchups

1. Washington vs. Kansas City (allows 5.9 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Fred Davis (IR), TE2 Logan Paulsen, TE3 Jordan Reed, TE4 Niles Paul
2. Tennessee at Denver (allows 6.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Craig Stevens, TE2 Delanie Walker
3. Kansas City at (allows 6.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Tony Moeaki, TE2 Anthony Fasano, TE3 Travis Kelce
4. Detroit at Philadelphia (allows 6.3 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Brandon Pettigrew, TE2 Tony Scheffler
5. Arizona vs. St. Louis (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Robert Housler (IR), TE2 Jeff King, TE3 Jim Dray, TE4 D.C. Jefferson, TE4 Kory Sperry
6. Cleveland at New England (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jordan Cameron, TE2 Kellen Davis
7. New York Jets vs. Oakland (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jeff Cumberland
8. San Diego vs. New York Giants (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Antonio Gates, TE2 Ladarius Green, TE2 John Phillips (Pro)
9. Tampa Bay vs. Buffalo (allows 6.5 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Luke Stocker, TE2 Tom Crabtree
10. Pittsburgh vs. Miami (allows 6.7 points per game to TEs)
    TE1 Heath Miller (IR), TE2 Matt Spaeth