Fantasy Football Rankings - Week 6, 2026
Your fantasy football season is in make or break territory. Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 6 will guide you to make the correct decisions. We now have enough data points to breakdown every team. We need to stay Bayesian and adjust or prior predictions. There is tremendous variance in football every week, no matter how much data we gather there are too many moving parts to be as confident in our predictions in football as we are when analyzing other sports.
Week 6 Schedule
Bye Week:
CIN, DET, MIA, MIN
Seattle Seahawks at Denver Broncos Thursday, 8:15pm ET
Houston Texans at Jacksonville Jaguars Sunday, 9:30am ET
New York Jets at New England Patriots 1:00pm ET
Carolina Panthers at Philadelphia Eagles 1:00pm ET
Chicago Bears at Atlanta Falcons 1:00pm ET
Pittsburgh Steelers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1:00pm ET
New Orleans Saints at New York Giants 1:00pm ET
Tennessee Titans at Indianapolis Colts 1:00pm ET
Baltimore Ravens at Cleveland Browns 1:00pm ET
Arizona Cardinals at Los Angeles Rams 4:05pm ET
Buffalo Bills at Las Vegas Raiders 4:25pm ET
Los Angeles Chargers at Kansas City Chiefs 4:25pm ET
Dallas Cowboys at Green Bay Packers 8:20pm ET
Washington Commanders at San Francisco 49ers Monday, 8:15pm ET
Fantasy Football Weekly Rankings
When examining these fantasy football weekly rankings, take into consideration that I am really only looking at positional ranks, not flex or overall rankings. When it comes to who you start in the flex a lot will depend on your specific league rules and roster construction. If players are ranked within 3 spots of each other the difference between them is negligible, they are expected to score the same amount of points, in those cases go with your gut, flip a coin, or join our Discord Channel.
Trade!
The Cardinals are sending WR Marvin Harrison Jr. to the Texans.
Final trade terms, but still pending physical.
HOU gets: WR Marvin Harrison Jr. & 2027 6th round pick
AZ gets: 2027 2nd round pick & 2027 7th round pick
Harrison reunites with C.J. Stroud in Houston, while Arizona adds draft capital and moves on from their former No. 4 overall pick.
Quarterback
Michael Penix: Could be available to play Week 6
Jordan Love's 252 "completed air yards" against the Bears on Sunday were the most of his career. If it felt like he was bombing all day long and having success doing so, it's because he was.
Running Back
Eagles RB Saquon Barkley (hamstring) is considered “week-to-week.” Barkley departed the team’s Week 4 loss to the Rams in the second quarter and did not return, with Ian Rapoport relaying that the team views him as “week-to-week,” for the time being. Rapoport added that the team does not view the injury as a long-term issue. Regardless, Barkley appears set to miss multiple games with the soft tissue injury, leaving the team paper thin at running back after backup Tank Bigsby inured a core muscle that requires surgery.
