Fantasy Football Rankings - Wildcard Round
- Kev Wheeler
- 1 day ago
- 3 min read
It may seem crazy to publish fantasy football rankings this week, but as we are putting together DFS line-ups and drafting Battle Royal drafts on Underdog we realized that some rankings could be useful. Keep in mind the Wildcard Round Fantasy Football rankings are subject to change after the Saturday games are completed.
Wildcard Schedule
Saturday, January 10th
Los Angeles Rams at Carolina Panthers 4:30pm ET
Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears 8:00pm ET
Sunday, January 11th
Buffalo Bills at Jacksonville Jaguars 1:00pm ET
San Francisco 49ers at Philadelphia Eagles 4:30pm ET
Los Angeles Chargers at New England Patriots 8:00pm ET
Monday, January 12th
Houston Texans at Pittsburgh Steelers 8:00pm ET
Fantasy Football Weekly Rankings
When examining these fantasy football weekly rankings, take into consideration that we are 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.
Quarterback
Eagles RT Lane Johnson (foot), DT Jalen Carter (hip) officially limited in practice Wednesday.
Trent Williams is at 49ers practice again today. Williams went to work with the performance staff while the other O-linemen are going through individual drills. It’ll probably be a limited practice for him per @mattmaiocco.bsky.social.
Running Back
Omarion Hampton (ankle) seen participating in practice Friday is listed questionable for Wild Card round. Hampton said he plans to play.
Josh Jacobs on his health heading into Wild Card weekend: "This is the best I've felt in 6 weeks."
The Process
My usual process is to only take data from the previous six weeks, I truly believe anything older than that holds little relevance unless there is a player returning from injury or some reason to discount the newer information. In Week 2 we have very little information we can be confident in. The last six weeks of the previous season can give some indication, and the preseason could provide a glimpse of what’s to come or it could be a mirage.
Wide Receiver
Davante Adams (hamstring) not listed on injury report for Saturday.
Rome Odunze (foot) not listed on injury report for Saturday.
Kayshon Boutte (hamstring) listed questionable for Wild Card round.
Dontayvion Wicks (concussion) downgraded to out for Wild Card round.
Josh Palmer (ankle) questionable for Wild Card round.
Tight End
Dalton Kincaid (knee) not expected to be listed on injury report for Wild Card round.
Terrance Ferguson (hamstring) doesn't practice again Wednesday.
Dallas Goedert (knee) limited in practice Wednesday.
Kicker
Jaguars have a guy who easily nails kicks from 65+ yards. Bills will either have an elder millennial kicker with a serious quad injury or a journeyman kicker signed off the street.
Defense/Special Teams
News or Hype?
The best way to start our weekly approach is to look at implied team totals based on Vegas odds and adjust from there. We need to pay attention to DFS articles and individual player prop-bets (over/under) to get a good idea of how to project median outcomes. With six weeks of data we can begin to examine the individual matchups some players may have, but we can't overreact to that data. There are so many changes from week-to-week in the NFL the best we can do is project a range of outcomes. Picking the outliers is what wins championships.