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Fantasy football cheat sheet — every weekly board on one page

The top few rows of every weekly board on the site, for one week, on one screen: Vegas implied totals, wind, the highest projected scores at each position, coin-flip pairs, DST and kicker streamers, waiver risers, injuries, soft matchups and byes. Every row is a computed number with its full board one tap away.

Week 5 · updated

That is the oldest data on the page; each block stamps its own.

Vegas

Top implied team totals

The 5 highest of 28 Week 5 offenses with a consensus line and a game still to play. Implied total = (game total − team spread) ÷ 2.

  1. DET at ARI · total 54.5 · Sun Oct 11, 4:25p ET 30.0 implied
  2. LAR vs BUF · total 54.5 · Mon Oct 12, 8:15p ET 28.75 implied
  3. BUF at LAR · total 54.5 · Mon Oct 12, 8:15p ET 25.75 implied
  4. JAX vs PHI · total 42.0 · Sun Oct 11, 9:30a ET 24.75 implied
  5. ARI vs DET · total 54.5 · Sun Oct 11, 4:25p ET 24.5 implied

Lines as of Thu, Oct 8, 8:25 PM ET

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Weather

Wind games (15+ mph)

No outdoor Week 5 game is forecast for 15+ mph sustained wind at kickoff.

Forecast as of Thu, Oct 8, 8:25 PM ET

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Projections

Highest projected scores, Half-PPR

The three highest Week 5 projections at each position in Half-PPR scoring, the top of the weekly rankings.

  1. Quarterbacks
  2. Josh Allen QB1 · BUF at LAR 20.4 Half-PPR pts
  3. Matthew Stafford QB2 · LAR vs BUF 20.3 Half-PPR pts
  4. Drake Maye QB3 · NE vs LV 19.0 Half-PPR pts
  5. Running backs
  6. Jahmyr Gibbs RB1 · DET at ARI 21.5 Half-PPR pts
  7. Bijan Robinson RB2 · ATL vs BAL 20.5 Half-PPR pts
  8. Jonathan Taylor RB3 · IND at PIT 16.6 Half-PPR pts
  9. Wide receivers
  10. Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR1 · SEA vs SF 18.0 Half-PPR pts
  11. Puka Nacua WR2 · LAR vs BUF 16.8 Half-PPR pts
  12. Amon-Ra St. Brown WR3 · DET at ARI 15.1 Half-PPR pts
  13. Tight ends
  14. Trey McBride TE1 · ARI vs DET 14.5 Half-PPR pts
  15. Brock Bowers TE2 · LV at NE 13.8 Half-PPR pts
  16. Sam LaPorta TE3 · DET at ARI 9.8 Half-PPR pts

Lines as of Thu, Oct 8, 8:25 PM ET · Stats as of Oct 8, 2026 · Injury report as of Oct 8, 2026

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Close calls

Coin flips: pairs within 1 point

Neighbors in the Week 5 Half-PPR rankings whose projections differ by less than 1.0 point, both among the starters in a 12-team league (QB12, RB24, WR24, TE12), up to two per position. In 2024–25, pairs that close went to the higher projection about 52% of the time (7,798 pairs): a toss-up. Players with an unknown status or ruled Out are left out.

  1. Quarterbacks
  2. Josh Allen vs Matthew Stafford QB1 and QB2 · 20.4 vs 20.3 Half-PPR pts 0.1 pt gap
  3. Drake Maye vs Jacoby Brissett QB3 and QB4 · 19.0 vs 18.9 Half-PPR pts 0.1 pt gap
  4. Running backs
  5. Jonathan Taylor vs Kyren Williams RB3 and RB4 · 16.6 vs 16.1 Half-PPR pts 0.5 pt gap
  6. Christian McCaffrey vs Ashton Jeanty RB5 and RB6 · 15.9 vs 15.2 Half-PPR pts 0.7 pt gap
  7. Wide receivers
  8. Drake London vs Ja'Marr Chase WR4 and WR5 · 13.8 vs 13.3 Half-PPR pts 0.5 pt gap
  9. Nico Collins vs Zay Flowers WR6 and WR7 · 12.9 vs 12.8 Half-PPR pts 0.1 pt gap
  10. Tight ends
  11. Trey McBride vs Brock Bowers TE1 and TE2 · 14.5 vs 13.8 Half-PPR pts 0.7 pt gap
  12. Sam LaPorta vs Tyler Warren TE3 and TE4 · 9.8 vs 9.5 Half-PPR pts 0.3 pt gap

Lines as of Thu, Oct 8, 8:25 PM ET · Stats as of Oct 8, 2026 · Injury report as of Oct 8, 2026

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Defense

DST streamers — Stream tier

6 defenses project for 7.0+ standard points, the Stream tier. Sacks and takeaways are 2026 through Week 4.

  1. MIN DST at NO · NO implied 19.75 7.8 proj. pts
  2. JAX DST vs PHI · PHI implied 17.25 7.7 proj. pts
  3. HOU DST at TEN · TEN implied 15.25 7.6 proj. pts
  4. CIN DST at MIA · MIA implied 18.0 7.4 proj. pts
  5. DEN DST at LAC · LAC implied 19.25 7.2 proj. pts
  6. PIT DST vs IND · IND implied 20.75 7.0 proj. pts

Lines as of Thu, Oct 8, 8:25 PM ET · Defense stats as of Oct 8, 2026

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Kickers

Kickers by team implied total

Each kicker's offense by its Week 5 implied total, with the roof and the kickoff wind. Wind flags at 15 mph sustained.

  1. Jake Bates DET at ARI · Retractable roof 30.0 team implied
  2. Harrison Mevis LAR vs BUF · Dome 28.75 team implied
  3. Tyler Bass BUF at LAR · Dome 25.75 team implied
  4. Cam Little JAX vs PHI · Outdoors, S 10 mph, gusts 15 24.75 team implied
  5. Chad Ryland ARI vs DET · Retractable roof 24.5 team implied

Lines as of Thu, Oct 8, 8:25 PM ET · Forecast as of Thu, Oct 8, 8:25 PM ET · Kicking stats as of Oct 8, 2026

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Waivers

Waiver risers, one per position

The biggest Week 4 jump in snap share, target share, carries or passing share at each position, among players drafted outside the top 120.

  1. Emanuel Wilson RB · SEA · next vs SF target share 1% → 20%, snap share 28% → 60%, 21 carries, 4 targets
  2. Darius Cooper WR · PHI · next @ JAX snap share 22% → 90%, target share 3% → 28%, 7 targets
  3. Brenton Strange TE · JAX · next vs PHI target share 13% → 35%, snap share 76% → 87%, 8 targets
  4. Jalon Daniels QB · TB · next @ DAL snap share 6% → 100%, passing share 0% → 100%, 148 of the team's 148 passing yards

Usage as of Oct 8, 2026

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Injuries

Key injuries

2 players carry a Week 5 designation; none still to play has 8+ PPR points or 6+ targets and carries a game.

Week 5 report as of Oct 8, 2026

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Matchups

Softest matchups by position

The team facing the opponent that has allowed the most fantasy points per game at each position — blended 2025+2026, half-PPR. A matchup rank, not a player rank.

  1. ARI QB vs DET · DET allow the 2nd-most to quarterbacks 23.0 pts/g allowed
  2. CLE RB at NYJ · NYJ allow the 1st-most to running backs 25.6 pts/g allowed
  3. ARI WR vs DET · DET allow the 1st-most to wide receivers 33.2 pts/g allowed
  4. ARI TE vs DET · DET allow the 1st-most to tight ends 17.4 pts/g allowed
  5. TEN K vs HOU · HOU allow the 2nd-most to kickers 13.5 pts/g allowed
  6. LV DST at NE · NE's offense has given up the 2nd-most DST points 10.0 DST pts/g

Points allowed as of Oct 8, 2026

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Byes

Byes this week and next

  1. Week 5 This week · CAR, KC 2 teams on bye
  2. Week 6 Next week · CIN, DET, MIA, MIN 4 teams on bye

Schedule as of Oct 8, 2026

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Method

How the cheat sheet is built

One week, everywhere. Every block is about the same NFL week — the one the DST and kicker boards rank. It moves on once fewer than a quarter of a week's games are still to kick off, and it is judged by when the data was pulled, not by when the page was built. Games that have already kicked off drop out of every block.

Nothing is recomputed here. Each block takes the first rows of a full board on this site, in that board's own order and with its own numbers, and links to it. The waiver risers are one per position; the injuries are official Out, Doubtful and Questionable designations for players with meaningful 2026 production; the matchups are one team per position from the points-allowed table's default view; the projections are the top three of each position on the weekly rankings, and a coin flip is a pair of neighbors there whose projections differ by less than a point.

Every block is stamped. Lines, forecasts, stats and the injury report are pulled on different schedules, so each block says when its data was pulled, and the “updated” stamp at the top is the oldest of them. A block whose data is not in yet — a forecast still past the seven-day window, an injury report not filed until Wednesday — says so rather than showing last week's numbers.

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Stats, the injury report and the schedule via nflverse.com (CC-BY-4.0). Weather data: National Weather Service — NWS does not endorse this site. Projections blend in preseason ADP (the market prior) via Fantasy Football Calculator. Lines are a median across sportsbooks; no book is named or quoted. A fantasy tool, not betting advice.