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Good morning.
Is this the longest week ever, or is it just me? I’ve spent more time staring at my fantasy lineups at work than I have actually working.
But if you’re like me, you’re in way too many leagues—which means draft season isn’t over yet. So today, I’m going to dive into a topic that some find controversial, but I find helpful—strength of schedule.
While you shouldn’t base your picks entirely on a player’s schedule, it can serve as an extra data nugget for tie breaking. The key is to focus primarily on early season schedules, as well as the extremes—like Drake Maye last year, whose schedule was so easy all season that some are already calling him overrated.
Let’s get after it…
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Softest Schedules 📈
Toughest Schedules 📉
Rookie Spotlight: Malachi Fields 🔦
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Softest Schedules 📈
An Easy Road Can’t Hurt(s)
Jalen Hurts // Yong Kim, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Eagles QB Jalen Hurts
Hurts has the easiest schedule among any QB in terms of fantasy matchups, per FantraxHQ’s Ryan Prosick. That’s due in large part to six games against the NFC East, where all three teams (WAS, DAL, NYG) were in the top-11 of fantasy points allowed to QBs. In addition to those division games, they will have three games against teams that were in the top-7 in fantasy points allowed to the position (CHI, PIT, TEN). The only downside is he’ll take on the Seahawks, Texans, and 49ers in the fantasy playoffs—making him a notable trade deadline sell candidate (hopefully after a hot start).
