Week 11 Start ‘Em, Sit ‘Em: Matchups to Exploit and Avoid on Sunday’s Schedule

There are few guarantees in the world of fantasy football.

The rest of the Week 11 schedule providing better production than Thursday Night Football between the New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers is one of them. 

Leave it at this—Panthers kicker Graham Gano finished as the second-highest scorer after the game.

As always, owners should have known to avoid the Thursday game on a short turnaround. Looking ahead, here are value comparisons and matchups to know for the weekend slate.

      

Quarterback

Matchup to Exploit: Tyrod Taylor, BUF (at CIN)

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It’s easy to overlook Buffalo Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor. 

The Bills aren’t exactly a lightning rod of fantasy production right now, which explains Taylor’s ownership percentage of 61.

Crazy. Taylor has posted 23 or more points in two out of his last three outings and now gets to take on a weak Cincinnati Bengals defense in Week 11. Weak, because the Bengals allow the fifth-most points to quarterbacks on average this year.

Cincinnati has coughed up two or more touchdown passes in six games this year. Taylor’s versatile, so his ceiling is one of the highest of the week.

               

Matchup to Avoid: Carson Palmer, ARI (at MIN)

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer is still good for the matchup-based play every now and then.

But it says a lot about name recognition that he’s owned (78.3 percent) in more leagues than Taylor. Palmer has only scored above 20 points twice this year and has thrown two or more scores in a game three times. 

Now isn’t the time to find unwarranted trust in Palmer. As a matchup-based play, Palmer looks terrible against the Minnesota Vikings.

Those Vikings permit the second-fewest points to quarterbacks on average, having never allowed more than 20 points to quarterbacks in a game this year, nor more than two passing scores.

            

Running Back

Matchup to Exploit: LeGarrette Blount, NE (at SF)

New England Patriots running back LeGarrette Blount is far from the first name to come to mind at running back this year, not with guys like Ezekiel Elliott and DeMarco Murray running wild.

Alas, Blount sits fifth in scoring at the position for good reason. He’s posted 18 or more points four times and just blasted …

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