Welcome to the first installment of the weekly OL/DL matchups column. Each week I will take our experts’ consensus rankings and highlight a matchup of the week as well as matchups on both sides of the line that we need to attack.

The focus of this column will be to assess which matchups to target (or avoid) for fantasy purposes each week. This could be from a team defense or IDP perspective on that side of the ball, while I will highlight players on offense as well. It is important to remember that we deal in small sample sizes in fantasy football, so there will be some data points that may not start to fully materialize until we get to Week 3. For now, we will lean on some combination of the expert’s rankings, matchup-specific personnel, and 2021 DVOA to dissect these matchups.

Matchup of the Week

Green Bay Packers OL (9th in FantasyPros OL Rankings) @ Minnesota Vikings (16th in FantasyPros DL Rankings)