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Week 7 Fantasy Football Defensive Streaming: Attacking the Rams

Blair Ames  —  @Blair_Ames Oct 18th, 2016
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Baltimore Ravens

Owned: ESPN 46.5%, Yahoo 33%
numberFire Projected Rank: 22nd

The Baltimore Ravens have been on this list multiple times thus far in 2016. Their ownership percentage has hovered around 40% on ESPN and Yahoo this season. The Ravens defense has been solid, but it hasn't made many splash plays that have resulted in huge fantasy points.

This week, the Ravens head north to take on the New York Jets, a team whose season has quickly spiraled down the drain. Against the Arizona Cardinals Monday night, Ryan Fitzpatrick was benched in the fourth quarter in favor of Geno Smith. Smith entered the game and promptly threw an interception on his first series.

Following Monday's loss, Jets Head Coach Todd Bowles said Fitzpatrick remains the Jets starter.


Fitzpatrick continues to lead the league in interceptions with 11. By using numberFire's Net Expected Points (NEP) metric, which measures a player's efficiency based upon historical expectation, we can further see how dreadful Fitzpatrick has been playing.

Among the 31 quarterbacks to throw at least 100 passes on the season, Fitzpatrick ranks 30th in Passing NEP (-5.59), only better than Blaine Gabbert (-19.20).

Through six games, four defenses have posted top-11 scoring weeks against the Jets. On the flip side, the Ravens defense have been a top-12 unit in four out of six games. According to our schedule-adjusted metrics, the Ravens defense ranks fifth overall.

While this is a prime matchup for the Ravens, they will be shorthanded as they are expected to be without linebacker Terrell Suggs, who tore his left biceps in the Week 6 loss against the New York Giants.

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