Fantasy Football Matchup Analyzer: Week 12

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. San Francisco at Washington (allows 21.4 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Colin Kaepernick, QB2 Colt McCoy
2. Atlanta vs. New Orleans (allows 20.6 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Matt Ryan, QB2 Dominique Davis
3. New York Jets at Baltimore (allows 19.9 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Geno Smith, QB2 Mark Sanchez
4. Chicago at St. Louis (allows 19.9 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Jay Cutler, QB2 Josh McCown
5. Carolina at Miami (allows 19.8 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Cam Newton, QB2 Derek Anderson
6. Indianapolis at Arizona (allows 19.2 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Andrew Luck, QB2 Matt Hasselbeck
7. Dallas at New York Giants (allows 19.1 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Tony Romo, QB2 Kyle Orton
8. Jacksonville at Houston (allows 19.0 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Blaine Gabbert, QB2 Chad Henne
9. Green Bay vs. Minnesota (allows 18.8 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Aaron Rodgers, QB2 Graham Harrell
10. Denver at New England (allows 18.3 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Peyton Manning, QB2 Brock Osweiler

Toughest Matchups

1. Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh (allows 12.5 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Brandon Weeden, QB2 Jason Campbell
2. Miami vs. Carolina (allows 13.0 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Ryan Tannehill, QB2 Matt Moore
3. St. Louis vs. Chicago (allows 13.1 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Sam Bradford, QB2 Kellen Clemens
4. Minnesota at Green Bay (allows 13.5 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Christian Ponder, QB2 Matt Cassel
5. San Diego at Kansas City (allows 14.4 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Philip Rivers, QB2 Charlie Whitehurst
6. Oakland vs. Tennessee (allows 14.6 points per game to QBs)
   QB2 Matt Flynn
7. New Orleans at Atlanta (allows 14.6 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Drew Brees, QB2 Luke McCown
8. New England vs. Denver (allows 14.8 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Tom Brady, QB2 Ryan Mallett
9. Kansas City vs. San Diego (allows 15.0 points per game to QBs)
   QB1 Alex Smith, QB2 Chase Daniel
10. Tampa Bay at Detroit (allows 15.1 points per game to QBs)
    QB1 Josh Freeman, QB2 Mike Glennon