The Strength of Schedule Streaming app allows you to see which players have the easiest or most difficult upcoming schedules, a potentially league-winning edge that gives you the opportunity to buy players right before they explode in plus matchups.
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Kirk Cousins
Welcome to the final week of both the regular season and fantasy season! If your league goes through Week 17, I’ve prepared a handful of players to buy and sell if you need to make any last-minute roster changes. Let’s get started. Quarterback Kirk Cousins of the Minnesota Vikings has been a trendy streaming option at the position all season. Despite the presence of running back Dalvin Cook and Cousins’ position at the head of a run-first team, he’s posted substantial numbers and currently sits as the QB11 on the season.
Cousins has posted QB1 numbers in five of his last seven games and has a phenomenal matchup to wrap up the season when he squares off against the Detroit Lions. In Week 16, Tom Brady obliterated the Lions’ defense so severely that he only played one half of football and still finished as the overall QB1 for the week. The Lions and Vikings are both eliminated from the playoff picture, so it comes down to a divisional matchup for pride for both squads. I would expect another strong showing from Cousins as he continues to post strong numbers thanks to Adam Thielen, Justin Jefferson, and an emerging Irv Smith Jr.
Quarterback Strength of Schedule – Week 17
Myles Gaskin
I touched on the incredible Week 16 performance of Miami Dolphins running back Myles Gaskin in a recent article for The Blitz. Once tabbed as an early-season league winner, his usage and efficiency have been spectacular for fantasy managers who happened to roster him in deeper dynasty leagues or who paid up for him in free agency. In his nine active games this season, he’s topped 10 fantasy points eight times and is averaging 19.7 opportunities/game. That level of volume puts him in the top 10 of opportunities/game among all running backs. For comparison, Alvin Kamara is averaging 19.6 opportunities/game this season.
Running Back Strength of Schedule – Week 17
Antonio Brown
Antonio Brown, wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, did not show up in the stat sheet until Week 9 of this season. In his seven active games, he’s averaging 11.5 points/game and sees north of six targets/game as well. The pass-heavy approach employed by the Buccaneers over the past two weeks (842 passing yards in Weeks 15 & 16) should continue against the division rival Atlanta Falcons in the season finale, which could afford additional opportunities for Brown to find the end zone for the third straight week. He might be the third wide receiver in terms of target priority, but fantasy managers are well aware of what Brown can do when given the opportunity.
