DFS: Numbers Game - A Look at the Key Stats from Week 6
The Atlanta Falcons were the lone undefeated team to drop their first game of the season in Week 6, leaving five teams with a perfect record heading into Week 7. Even the teams who remain without a loss had to sweat it out in Week 6, as the Denver Broncos, Carolina Panthers and even the Green Bay Packers needed late-game heroics to prevail.
The New England Patriots on the other hand, showed that even the best can use a little help every now and then...
The Colts tried a unique formation on 4th down.
It didn't work. #NEvsIND http://t.co/Eh0HXpFV00
— NFL (@NFL) October 19, 2015
0.00%: The chance that play was going to work, expressed as a percentage.
0: Combined touchdowns scored by Packers WR Randall Cobb and RB Eddie Lacy in the past three weeks. The rest of the Packers' offense has combined for seven touchdowns in that span.
1: WR Emmanuel Sanders is the lone member of the Broncos to have scored more touchdowns than CB Aqib Talib this season. It's the the third time in Talib's career he has scored two defensive touchdowns in a season. With 10 games remaining, he'll have plenty more opportunities to set a new career high.
2: Number of wins by the Miami Dolphins this season. They beat the Tennessee Titans 38-10 in the debut of head coach Dan Campbell. The Dolphins started the season 1-3 under head coach Dan Philbin before firing him.
Campbell and the Dolphins rode RB Lamar Miller for a season-high 19 carries, as he racked up 113 rushing yards and his first touchdown of the season.
3: Yards gained on the ground by Eddie Lacy on his four carries against the San Diego Chargers. Lacy added 17 receiving yards on two receptions, but he failed to find the end zone for the fifth consecutive week. Lacy's counterpart James Starks racked up 117 yards from scrimmage on his 11 touches, scoring twice.
4: Number of players who have received more targets than Cleveland Browns WR Travis Benjamin over the past four weeks.
Hopkins, Keenan, Demaryius and Julio.....
Those are the only players that have more targets than Travis Benjamin's 45 over the past 4 weeks.
— Rich Hribar (@LordReebs) October 19, 2015
Benjamin leads the Browns in targets, receptions, yards, average length of reception, and he has the Browns' longest reception of the season at 80 yards.
5: The number of touchdowns scored by Browns TE Gary Barnidge over the previous four weeks. He had three career touchdown catches over his first seven NFL seasons. Barnidge has five of the Browns' 11 total receiving touchdowns, and five of the 13 total offensive touchdowns.
7: Career rushes longer than 18 yards by New York Jets QB Ryan Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick scored his 12th career rushing touchdown on an 18-yard rush against the Washington Redskins. Fitzpatrick came into Monday with the fifth-most fantasy points among quarterbacks for Week 6.
14: Receptions by Chargers WR Keenan Allen on his 15 targets against the Packers. It's the third time this season Allen has been targeted at least 15 times, and his second game with at least 14 receptions.
30: Rushing yards gained by Detroit Lions SS Isa Abdul-Quddus on his first and only carry of the season against the Chicago Bears. Abdul-Quddus surpassed RB Joique Bell in rushing yards this season, despite Bell having 19 more carries.
50.30: Falcons RB Devonta Freeman's lead in standard (non-PPR) fantasy points over any other running back through six weeks. Freeman didn't even start the first two games of the season. Freeman has finished as the No. 1 fantasy running back in three of the four weeks he has started. He was No. 2 to Tampa Bay Buccaneers RB Doug Martin in Week 5.
393: Total yards from scrimmage gained by Devonta Freeman and Jets RB Chris Ivory against the Redskins in the past two weeks. Doug Martin draws Washington in Week 7. Coming off a Week 6 bye, and the second-best game of his career in Week 5, Martin could confirm his return to fantasy relevance with an appealing matchup.