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Place Kicker RankingsBest Week 7 Place KickersI know I missed a week. I didn't really have any good advice because I didn't see any really good matchups. The best kickers this week were the Miami Dolphins Dan Carpenter and the Detroit Lions Jason Hanson. Hanson might not be a bad play after Detroit comes off their bye week in week 7. As far as place kickers go for week 7, Garrett Hartley seems to have New Orleans starting job back and he has a great matchup against the Cleveland Browns. The one drawback is that New Orleans isn't going to try him too often from beyond 40 yards. The other kicker you might want to consider is Denver's Matt Prater. He has been very accurate this year and has a decent matchup at home against Oakland. Best Week 5 Place KickersHopefully, the Saints now have their Kicking situation sorted out with John Carney. I would play him this week because the Saints play an Arizona Cardinals team that has let up 41 points in two of their last three games and didn't look particularly good against the Raiders either. This should mean Carney should be busy. To date, Matt Bryant of the Atlanta Falcons and Mike Nugent of the Cincinatti Bengals have been the top two producing place kickers, followed closely by Neil Rackers of the Houston Texans. You should go ahead and start any of these kickers when they have a matchup against a lesser defensive team. Bye Week Advice for Place KickersWhen it comes to kickers, there isn't too many situations where you absolutely have to keep them through the bye week. As of today, I would not categorize any NFL place kicker as a must keep. If you drop your kicker and someone else picks them up, so be it. The only time I would recommend keeping a kicker is when they have a great matchup coming up the next week after the bye. The best advice I can give you is to look towards the following weekends matchups and find the kicker with the best matchup as soon as you are allowed to.
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A good kicker can mean the difference between a win and a lose. Obviously, you will want to find the kicker that kicks the most field goals. But the difference between a great kicker last year and a average kicker isn't that great. Last year, Nate Kaeding had the most Fantasy Football points with 146 while the average for a decent kicker was 120 points (this is relative because different league score FGs differently). Your going to find that you can get a place kicker with a good matchup on most weeks. Good matchups for a kicker are matchups against either very week defenses or against strong team defenses that hold teams from scoring TDs. In any event, you should never select a kicker before the 15th or 16th round of a typical 18 round fantasy football draft. Dynamic offenses like NO are likely to move the ball down the field often. Even when they don't score a touchdown, they are often in the position for an easy field goal. Of course, accuracy counts for a great deal. That's why I have Mason Crosby so far down the list. Great offense, but he missed 9 FGs last year or about a 75% accuracy. Every year, there is a team that will have the capability of moving the football but also seem to fizzle out near the goal line. I have Robbie Gould ranked that high for this very reason. I think Chicago will be able to move the ball, but Matt Forte and Jay Cutler will struggle to convert the TDs in games this year. |
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