Week 9 DB Projections (1 Viewer)

[Miami Style]

With all the talk about Arch losing playing time and possibly his starting gig in Was....why would he be ranked 2nd in this weeks projections?

 

[John Norton]

With all the talk about Arch losing playing time and possibly his starting gig in Was....why would he be ranked 2nd in this weeks projections?

Troy Vincent took a little playing time from Archuleta in week 7 but that was against the Colts who use a great deal of multi receiver sets and feature a wide open passing offense. The Cowboys generally feature 2TE and have the #5 rushing attack. Vincent is a decent player but he's a 35 year old former corner. He's not a physical player and there is a reason the Bills let him go (besides Ko Simpson). I can see him getting some playing time in certain situations and maybe a lot of playing time against some teams but I don't believe he will render Archuleta usless in fantasy terms. At least not every week. All the speculation about Archuleta losing the starting job is just that, speculation. It hasn't happened yet and I'll believe it when it does. Archuleta is almost like having an extra LB on the field which might be a good thing this week against Dallas, especially when you consider that Lemar Marshall is playing with a sore ankle. The first time these two teams met Archuleta went 9-2.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

The first time these two teams met Archuleta went 9-2.

3 of those solos came on special teams...and he only has 4 solos total on special teams all season, so we probably can't count on those again.I'm an Archuleta fan for fantasy purposes so I think the numbers he's projected for are still reachable (I'm not too worried about Vincent either), but here are what all starting safeties have done against Dallas this year (special teams tackles are excluded):Week 8 (W): Mike Minter (10/5), Shaun Williams (1/3) = 11/6 combinedWeek 7 (L): Gibril Wilson (3/1), Will Demps (2/1) = 5/2 combinedWeek 6 (W): CC Brown (9/1), Glenn Earl (4/1) = 13/2 combinedWeek 5 (L): Brian Dawkins (3/1), Michael Lewis (1/3) = 4/4 combinedWeek 4 (W): Chris Hope (8/2), Lamont Thompson (5/2) = 13/4 combinedWeek 2 (W): Adam Archuleta (6/2), Sean Taylor (4/3) = 10/5 combinedWeek 1 (L): Deon Grant (4/0), Donovin Darius (2/0) = 6/0 combinedThere's a pretty clear pattern here. When the Cowboys win, the opposing safeties put up good tackle numbers (11, 13, 13, 10 solos). When the Cowboys lose, the opposing safeties put up terrible numbers (5, 4, 6 solos).Anyway, just thought there was some interesting stuff here worth posting. People can draw their own conclusions.If the Redskins use Sean Taylor to double one of the Cowboys WRs, that could wind up leaving Archuleta in man coverage on Witten pretty often and that's a matchup that the Cowboys will probably try to exploit. That could lead to some big tackle numbers for Archuleta OR it he gets burned repeatedly, it could get him benched and force the Redskins to shift Taylor to SS and let Vincent play deep.

 

[RommelDAK]

Sounds like a good week to keep Archie on the bench to see how things settle out.