Week 9 random thoughts (1 Viewer)

Every Monday I take some time to go through PFF snap counts and ratings to look at guys I own, waiver guys, or guys I might be interested in acquiring. Figured I might as well post what I find. Since I'm focusing on my guys through 3-4 leagues, it won't be all encompassing but some might find it helpful. It also focuses mainly on dynasty and big-play scoring.

Week 8: (most recent week at bottom)

LB Whitehead: played 56/62 snaps, which was a slight increase in his % from the previous few weeks.

LB Worrilow: continues to play all snaps, but got a simply terrible grade of -6.6.

SAF Ishmael: played all snaps. remains solid in run but can't cover anything. I don't expect he will be a great find for my dynasty teams beyond this season.

LB Shembo: 3 snaps.

DE Bennett: 50/62 snaps. Can't buy a sack recently despite good PPF grades, high snap counts, and good pressure.

LB Pierre-Louis: Season high 21/62 snaps, apparently Malcolm Smith missed some time. Own him almost all my leagues. The one article I read gave positive reports on him.

SAF Elam: 68/70 snaps, second highest of the team. No idea why, cause he missed 5 tackles. He really should be at SS, but maybe not with 1 tackle/5 misses.

SAF Brooks and Hill: 33 and 12 snaps, respectively.

LB McPhee: 23 snaps with 4 QB pressures. Uptick in snap% for Suggs recently seems to be taking some from him.

LB Jenkins: played all snaps. Jones is eating up the tackles there.

LB J.T. Thomas: played all snaps. Telvin next closest at 40/61.

LB Houston: he is good, play him.

CB Gaines: 40/53 snaps, second highest CB on team.

LB Christian Jones: 75/75 snaps, got overall decent marks from PFF considering they gave up 51 pts.

DE Houston: finally gets to the QB and tears his ACL.

LB Collins: played all snaps until 4th Q blowout. Was turrrrible (-3.5) in coverage.

LB Ayers: 32/71 snaps.

DT Floyd: 46/61 snaps, +5.5 rating which I believe is career best.

SAF H Smith: 60/61 snaps, just didn't make it to the box score enough.

DE Watt: 11.2 rating...lol.

LB Williamson: 77/84 snaps.

LB Woodyard: 54/84 snaps.

LB Graham: 28/73 snaps. 5 QB hurries in 15 rush attempts (dunno how that is scored negatively by PFF)

SAF Johnson: 94/94 snaps

SAF Mathieu: 78/94 snaps. Moved to slot CB when Peterson injured.

SAF Bucanon: 78/94 snaps.

SAF Jefferson: 75/94 snaps. Currently in concussion protocols.

LB Okafor: 71/94 snaps. PFF didn't like his work.

LB Sio Moore: 60/60, very good vs run but not great vs pass.

LB Mack: 59/60. +7.1 rating, his highest. 4 hurries, 2 hits. Gonna get one soon.

CB Carrie and Hayden: 23/60 and 6 snaps respectively.

LB Mingo: 53/86 snaps. Continues to grade well vs run, but disappointment as a pass rusher.

DE Heyward: 55/67 snaps. 48 QB rushes, 4 hurries. Got to Luck once but was called back due to offsetting penalties.

DE Daniels: 43/69 snaps, PFF credits with 8 tackles.

DE Jordan: 62/71 snaps. 5 hurries and 2 sacks.

Love the rundown JB. Good stuff.

If I can humbly make one recommendation it would be to just use S for safeties. Maybe it's just me, but if took me a few times to figure out what SAF meant... at first I thought it was a blurb pertaining to a San Francisco player.

I thought it was south africa

Updated for week 9:

DE Bennett continues to play exceptionally well, which is terrible for fantasy teams that keep starting him because he is putting jack crap in teh box score.

LB Pierre-Louis did not get a ton of playing time with Smith out, but that could be partially due to playing vs OAK. Seattle twitterverse still loves him.

BALT Safeties: Elam only 28/72 snaps. Will Hill took over and played 63 snaps. Stewart played almost every down, but Brooks didn't see the field.

BALT DL: I'm tired of trying to guess who will get to the QB. I like McPhee in dynasty leagues.

LB Jenkins: Miami only saw 42 defensive plays in their blowout. 3 total tackles. The only guys I'd want to start here are Jones, Wake, and Oliver.

LB Ayers played almost every snap for NE.

ARI DBs: Johnson continues to be only one playing every snap. Mathieu/Bucannon about 50%, Jefferson 18/65. Snap counts for the team look like a 4-3.

LB Mack: 6 hits, 2 hurries. One of these games he is going to break out with multiple sacks.

LB Moore: great stat sheet, but PFF hated his work. But he rushed the QB 8 times and had 4 hurries and a sack, and that got him a -0.7 pass rush grade. Does not compute.

LB Mingo: got more info about his limiting shoulder injury, but finally got to the QB this week. Just not enough snaps there (like 65% or so).

DE Heyward: 5 hurries, 1 hit. PFF liked his work (+4.1, highest of the year for him).

I play in a shallow IDP league, and the injury to Chandler Jones has left me scrambling at DL the last couple of weeks. Been guessing wrong with players on the wire. This week I'm looking at Bruce Irvin, who is listed as a DL but is apparently playing SLB in Seattle? And his recent snap counts are promising... he hasn't racked up gaudy stats, but his pass rush ability coupled with added tackle opportunity as a linebacker is intriguing.

I'm not sure why people are still using PFF snap counts, since they are often wrong and we publish them.

Matt Elam played 27 of 69 snaps in week 9, not 28 for 72. Maybe not a big deal for fantasy purposes, just calling it out for general accuracy issues.

Will Hill, 60 snaps out of 69 officially.

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