Welcome to the Week 6 Cheat Sheet. What exactly is the cheat sheet? There are no rankings, no single-page printout. It's not a traditional cheat sheet. It's more like the article equivalent. I want to give you some quick and easy advice, highlight a few players I'm higher or lower on than the average analyst for this week's slate of games and provide links to our other content here on SI Fantasy.
One of the befuddling aspects of covering fantasy football for a living is that I often get a lot of start/sit questions throughout the week that don't make much sense to me. For example, I was asked whether someone should start George Kittle or Taysom Hill this week. Look, if this is the sort of problem you're creating for yourself every week when setting a lineup, then you're overcomplicating the game. You likely drafted Kittle in Round 4 or 5, right? Sure, he's started off slow but Hill is a boom-or-bust player. If anyone could successfully separate the booms from the busts, they'd be a bajillionaire, not answering fantasy lineup questions. I'm fine being wrong with a player but again, Hill has five touchdowns in four contests (he sat out in Week 3). Does he keep it rolling? Is Hill going to score 20 touchdowns this year? No.
Try to have some awareness of what is a fluke -- or at best uncommon -- versus what a player is actually capable of repeating, Lean toward the safe, boring side when setting your lineups. If you're trying to make big calls every week, you're going to whiff far more often than you hit on those calls. If safe and boring aren't your cup of tea, I get it. We want to appear smart. We want to appear one step ahead of the masses. "Look at me, I predicted this statistically average player would outperform a known stud; I'm great at fantasy football!" No.
There has to be some kind of nuance to how you play. If you're going to make a call, find some statistical evidence. Maybe a team's top cornerback is hurt so their opponent's No. 1 wide receiver has a better than average game. Maybe it's going to be really windy so there's more rushing attempts. If there's no logic, then you're reducing the game to a lotto scratcher.
Let me get off my high horse. I do get way too comfortable up there, don't I?
In this Week 6 Cheat Sheet, I don't want to spend much time focusing on the marquee fantasy players across the league, and instead I want to focus on borderline players who are either at the end of your starting lineup, the end of your bench or near the top of a 12-team league's waiver wire.
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