Tre Tucker
26.70 pts
Five catches, 97 yards, two touchdowns on seven targets. On your bench. He alone was the margin.
Week 6 is in the books and it stings: you lost 90.00 to 96.54. Tre Tucker scored 26.70 on your bench. Starting him over any one of your three wide receivers wins that game. You fall to 2-4.
LordHaveMRSA
90.00
vargy
96.54
FINAL - lost by 6.54. Next up: Gridiron Guru 23 (3-3), Week 7.
Cam Skattebo
0.00 pts
Six snaps played. Zero carries, zero targets. Not hurt - benched out of the rotation.
Omar Cooper Jr.
22.30 pts
Free agent. The most-added player in all of Sleeper over the last two days.
Where the matchup stands
Week 6 is final. You scored 90.00, vargy scored 96.54, and you lost by 6.54 points. Your record is 2-4 and you sit ninth of twelve, two games out of the sixth and final playoff spot with your points-for total (597.02) only ninth best. The margin for error is gone.
One game was played since yesterday's report: the Washington Commanders at the San Francisco 49ers on Monday night, a 23-17 San Francisco win. Neither you nor vargy had a single player in it, so your matchup was already decided when Sunday night ended. Christian McCaffrey (San Francisco 49ers) was the story of the night - 16 carries for 64 yards and two touchdowns plus nine catches for 53 yards, roughly 32.7 points in this format - and he belongs to UndisputedGiant, the 5-1 league leader. He was not available to you.
Week 7 starts Thursday, October 22 at 8:15 PM Eastern with the New England Patriots at the Chicago Bears - a game that involves two of your players, so your Thursday decisions lock early. Your opponent is Gridiron Guru 23, 3-3 with 643.56 points scored, the sixth-highest total in the league. They are better than vargy.
Your Week 6 starters, graded
Drake Maye (New England Patriots) - 23.80 points
18 of 32 for 235 yards and three touchdowns, no interceptions, plus four carries for 24 yards. Efficient and clean. Your best starter and the only one who clearly beat his role. No complaints.
Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) - 15.90 points
Four catches on six targets for 59 yards and a touchdown in Buffalo's 33-30 win at Las Vegas. Solid, touchdown-dependent, exactly what he is. He is on bye in Week 7.
Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) - 14.30 points
Seven catches on seven targets for 73 yards, no touchdown, in a 22-6 Kansas City win. A perfect catch rate is nice; 10.4 yards per catch is not. Patrick Mahomes threw for 272 yards and zero touchdowns, so there was nothing in the end zone for anybody. Fine, not good.
Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) - 14.00 points
Six catches on seven targets for 80 yards, no touchdown, in an 18-16 loss to Arizona. Perfectly respectable and still a disappointment for the player you are paying up for. The Rams scored 16 points; there was not much to go around.
Trey McBride (Arizona Cardinals) - 12.30 points
Seven catches on nine targets for 53 yards. The volume is there - nine targets is a real workload for a tight end - but 7.6 yards per catch and no touchdown caps it. A floor game, not a ceiling game.
Kyren Williams (Los Angeles Rams) - 9.70 points
10 carries for 50 yards and three catches for 17 yards on six targets. Single digits from a starting running back is a bad day, and the reason is the part you should worry about: Blake Corum took nine carries for 42 yards and caught the Rams' receiving touchdown. That is a near-even split of the backfield, not a lead role.
Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) - 0.00 points
A zero, and the worst kind. He was active and healthy, played six offensive snaps, and recorded no carries and no targets in a 34-27 Giants loss. Tyrone Tracy Jr. took six carries and scored, Devin Singletary took four. Skattebo has been coached out of the rotation. This is not a bad game to shrug off - it is a role that no longer exists.
The bench that beat your lineup
| Bench player | Points | What he did | Would it have won it? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tre Tucker (Las Vegas Raiders) | 26.70 | 5 catches, 97 yards, 2 touchdowns on 7 targets | Yes - over Puka Nacua, Keon Coleman or Xavier Worthy, any one of the three |
| DeMario Douglas (New England Patriots) | 19.60 | 7 catches, 86 yards, 1 touchdown on 8 targets | No - his best swap gains 5.60 and you needed 6.55 |
| Geno Smith (New York Jets) | 12.98 | 20 of 30, 252 yards, 1 touchdown, 1 interception | No - Drake Maye outscored him by 10.82 |
| Najee Harris (New York Giants) | 0.20 | 4 carries, 2 yards | No - the running back slot was unwinnable either way |
Two bench wide receivers outscored all three of your starting wide receivers. This is the whole loss, so be clear-eyed about it.
Injuries and roster rot
DJ Moore (Buffalo Bills) - Out, shoulder (AC joint sprain)
Inactive in Week 6 and Buffalo is on bye in Week 7, so he cannot help you for at least two more weeks. He is occupying a bench spot you need. If you have to cut someone to add a running back, he is the name.
Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) - healthy, and that is the problem
No injury designation. Six snaps, no touches. A healthy scratch in all but name. Week 7 sends the Giants to the Houston Texans as 10-point underdogs, which means they will likely trail and throw - the worst possible setup for a running back already out of the rotation. Do not start him.
Najee Harris (New York Giants) - healthy, also finished
Four carries for two yards. You are rostering two New York Giants running backs who produced 0.20 points between them, while Tyrone Tracy Jr. - a free agent in your league - scored 18.50 taking the work they were drafted for. Owning both is a wasted roster spot.
Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) - BYE in Week 7
Buffalo, Jacksonville, the Los Angeles Chargers and Washington are all off in Week 7. Coleman is your only bye-week casualty among Week 6 starters, but it costs you a wide receiver slot on a roster that just proved it is bad at picking which receivers to start.
Waiver targets - you have $39 of FAAB left
| Player | Why | Suggested bid |
|---|---|---|
| Omar Cooper Jr. (New York Jets) - Wide Receiver | 6 catches, 103 yards, 1 touchdown on 7 targets, and the single most-added player in all of Sleeper over the last 48 hours. Hosts Miami in Week 7. He is the best player on the wire and he will not be cheap. | $16-$20 |
| Tyrone Tracy Jr. (New York Giants) - Running Back | 18.50 points - a touchdown on the ground, another through the air. He is the back who took the job from the two Giants you already own. Adding him fixes the hole and hedges your own mistake. Houston is a bad Week 7 matchup, so buy him for the rest of the season, not for Sunday. | $6-$9 |
| Roschon Johnson (Chicago Bears) - Running Back | 13 carries, 51 yards, 1 touchdown plus 2 catches for 34 yards. He splits with D'Andre Swift, who scored twice, so this is a committee - but a committee back who scores is better than what you are starting at running back number two. | $3-$5 |
| Michael Mayer (Las Vegas Raiders) - Tight End | 7 catches, 95 yards on 9 targets. A genuinely good game. Skip him - Trey McBride is better and you cannot spend scarce money on a position you have covered. | Pass |
FAAB is the $100 season-long budget you bid from to win waiver claims. You have spent $61, leaving $39 for the rest of the regular season. Claims process midweek, so get these in today. Spell out your priority: you need a running back far more than another wide receiver, but Omar Cooper Jr. is the better football player and the whole league is chasing him.
Week 7 lineup - and the one that got away
| Slot | Player | Call |
|---|---|---|
| QB | Drake Maye (New England Patriots) | Start. At Chicago, Thursday 8:15 PM Eastern. Locks early - no waiting. |
| RB | Kyren Williams (Los Angeles Rams) | Start. At Las Vegas, Rams favored by 4.5. The Blake Corum split caps him, but he is your only real running back. |
| RB | Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) | Start by default, and hate it. You have no alternative until a claim lands. If Tyrone Tracy Jr. or Roschon Johnson comes in, that player starts here instead. |
| WR | Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) | Start. With Davante Adams out, his target share goes up materially. |
| WR | Tre Tucker (Las Vegas Raiders) | Start. This is not a reward for last week - he is home against the Rams with 7 targets and two scores behind him. Keon Coleman's bye forces the move anyway. Make it willingly. |
| TE | Trey McBride (Arizona Cardinals) | Start. Hosts Denver. Nine targets a week is a floor you can live with. |
| FLEX | DeMario Douglas (New England Patriots) | Start over Xavier Worthy. 8 targets, 86 yards and a touchdown last week, and A.J. Brown (New England Patriots) is questionable with an ankle and was limited Monday. If Brown sits, Douglas's volume climbs. The catch: it is a Thursday game, so you commit before you know. Worthy at Seattle in a 42.5-point projected total is the safer, lower-ceiling alternative - take him if you want to see Friday's news first. |
| BENCH | Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) | Close call against Douglas. Sunday night at Seattle. |
| BENCH | Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) | BYE. |
| BENCH | DJ Moore (Buffalo Bills) | Out (shoulder) and on BYE. Drop candidate. |
| BENCH | Najee Harris (New York Giants) | 4 carries for 2 yards. Drop candidate. |
| BENCH | Cooper Kupp (Seattle Seahawks) | 10 targets, 50 yards - the volume is real, the yards are not. Hold. |
| BENCH | Chris Godwin Jr. (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) | 4 of 8 for 37 yards in a dreadful Tampa Bay offense. Hold, barely. |
| BENCH | Geno Smith (New York Jets) | Backup quarterback. You do not need two. |
The single biggest news for your roster did not happen to your roster. Davante Adams (Los Angeles Rams) ruptured his left hamstring on Sunday and is scheduled for a procedure - he is done for a long stretch. That leaves Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) as the unquestioned number one target in that offense against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday at 4:25 PM Eastern. Start him with confidence; that is the one spot where your Week 6 frustration should turn into Week 7 optimism.
Here is the lineup. The real decision is the flex - the extra starting spot that takes a running back, wide receiver or tight end.
The honest summary
You are 2-4 because you have scored 597.02 and allowed 661.16 - you are losing on both ends, but Week 6 was pure self-inflicted. Your bench outscored your lineup at wide receiver by 12.70 points in a game you lost by 6.54. Five teams have fewer points than you and three of them have better records.
Two actions this week, in order. First, put in a claim on a running back - Tyrone Tracy Jr. (New York Giants) at $6 to $9 is the best value on the board and it directly undoes the Cam Skattebo and Najee Harris mistake. Second, decide the flex before Thursday night and live with it. Your roster is six wide receivers deep and one running back thin; stop treating the receiver room as a problem to solve and fix the backfield.