Week 10 Fantasy Football Sneaky Starts & Sleepers

Nov 06, 2024

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All but the luckiest fantasy owners at some point need to find the proverbial diamond in the rough—a waiver wire or bench player capable of putting up some points in a pinch. This weekly feature is dedicated to that part of fantasy football. It's not pretty, but it's part of the game.

I’ll put the defense’s aFPA (adjusted fantasy points allowed) rank in parentheses below. As of Week 4, we are now using only 2024 data for our signature strength of schedule metric, which makes it a great apples-to-apples comparison of each defensive matchup.

Last week’s Sneaky Starts featured Matthew Stafford (QB12), Chuba Hubbard (RB7), Chase Brown (RB5), Tank Dell (WR13), Jaxon Smith-Njigba (WR1), Courtland Sutton (WR6), Cedric Tillman (WR11), Jakobi Meyers (WR16), Tyler Lockett (WR17), Mike Gesicki (TE1), and Taysom Hill (TE3).

Let’s see who might surprise this week.

Quarterbacks

Jared Goff, Lions (@ HOU, 24)

The Texans have yielded the fourth-fewest rushing touchdowns while allowing 2.1 passing touchdowns per game. Goff has thrown 12 touchdowns in his last five indoor games.

Matthew Stafford, Rams (vs. MIA, 2)

In his last two games, Stafford has thrown for 279/4 and 298/2. The Dolphins' pass defense has played pretty well this season, but in the last two games, they’ve yielded 307/2 to Kyler Murray and 235/3 to Josh Allen.