Even though you drafted your team with certain hopes and intentions, your weekly lineup decisions shouldn't be determined by the order you picked your players in. You need to check who your players play and make sure you've got the right guys in -- and the wrong guys on the bench. It's too early to be absolutely sure which matchups will be easy and which will be tough, but we can make some educated guesses based on healthy personnel, defensive schemes, track records and key details of offenses.
The things we know can help us minimize the impact of the things we don't know. This should lead to better decision-making. Let's go through every game and highlight the players who aren't obvious starts and sits (because you don't need to be told to start Bijan Robinson).
You should feel more comfortable starting or sitting players based on the information given, and feeling comfortable with your Fantasy lineup before the games start is the best feeling in the world. Dave Richard's Week 2 rankings: Top 150 | QB | RB | WR | TE | K | DST Lions deserve credit for putting a lot of pressure on Tyler Shough last week, landing five sacks (more than any other team). However, it's notable they had a solid-not-spectacular 35.5% pass rush pressure rate.
I'm not even sure it'll matter how much they blitz in this short-week road game at a charged-up, fresh venue in Buffalo. I'd expect them to play a lot of zone coverage until they have to revert to man-to-man in an effort to blitz Allen and create some turnovers. If that's the case, then I'd expect Dalton Kincaid to keep seeing targets like he did last week (29.4% target per route run rate and 22.5 yards per catch against Houston's zone defense).
Remember, the Lions' defense gave up a combined 7-87-2 stat line over 15 targets to New Orleans' top two tight ends last Sunday. Jared Goff will have one of his six outdoor games in Week 2 against a Bills defense that was knocked around pretty good by C.J. Stroud on Sunday, especially in the middle of the field.
I would guess Buffalo will stick with zone-heavy coverage but blitz plenty, something they did against Stroud, even though the pass rush pressure really didn't make a difference until late in the game. They might this week -- the Lions will be down two starters on the offensive line from Week 1 (three if you could center Cade Mays). Goff has rarely played well when pressured, the latest example being last week, when he avoided pressure nicely on Amon-Ra St.
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