Fantasy Football Matchup Analyzer: Week 5

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. Atlanta vs. New York Jets (allows 10.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Tony Gonzalez, TE2 Chase Coffman, TE3 Levine Toilolo
2. New England at Cincinnati (allows 10.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Rob Gronkowski (IR), TE2 Aaron Hernandez, TE3 Jake Ballard (Out), TE4 Daniel Fells
3. New York Jets at Atlanta (allows 9.1 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jeff Cumberland
4. Denver at Dallas (allows 9.0 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jacob Tamme, TE2 Joel Dreessen, TE3 Virgil Green
5. Seattle at Indianapolis (allows 8.3 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Zach Miller, TE2 Anthony McCoy
6. San Diego at Oakland (allows 8.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Antonio Gates, TE2 Ladarius Green, TE2 John Phillips (Pro)
7. Tennessee vs. Kansas City (allows 7.6 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Craig Stevens, TE2 Delanie Walker
8. Miami vs. Baltimore (allows 7.3 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Dustin Keller, TE2 Charles Clay (IR), TE3 Michael Egnew
9. Arizona vs. Carolina (allows 7.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Robert Housler (IR), TE2 Jeff King, TE3 Jim Dray, TE4 D.C. Jefferson, TE4 Kory Sperry
10. Cincinnati vs. New England (allows 7.2 points per game to TEs)
    TE1 Jermaine Gresham, TE3 Alex Smith, TE4 Orson Charles, TE4 Tyler Eifert

Toughest Matchups

1. Oakland vs. San Diego (allows 0.0 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Richard Gordon, TE2 David Ausberry
2. Dallas vs. Denver (allows 0.0 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jason Witten, TE2 Gavin Escobar
3. Detroit at Green Bay (allows 0.0 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Brandon Pettigrew, TE2 Tony Scheffler
4. Kansas City at Tennessee (allows 5.9 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Tony Moeaki, TE2 Anthony Fasano, TE3 Travis Kelce
5. New York Giants vs. Philadelphia (allows 6.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Brandon Myers, TE2 Bear Pascoe
6. Green Bay vs. Detroit (allows 6.2 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Jermichael Finley
7. Indianapolis vs. Seattle (allows 6.3 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Coby Fleener, TE2 Dwayne Allen
8. Baltimore at Miami (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Dennis Pitta, TE2 Ed Dickson
9. Carolina at Arizona (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
   TE1 Greg Olsen, TE2 Ben Hartsock
10. Philadelphia at New York Giants (allows 6.4 points per game to TEs)
    TE1 Brent Celek, TE2 Zach Ertz, TE3 James Casey