Here are my fantasy football rankings and tiers for Week 9. As always, feel free to use these tiered rankings as a tiebreaker for your difficult lineup decisions. Beneath the tiers, I’ll offer a few brief thoughts on some of the borderline start/sit guys and some other interesting cases.
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Fitz’s Fantasy Football Week 9 Tiers & Rankings
Christian McCaffrey, Travis Etienne, Jahmyr Gibbs and Javonte Williams are on bye this week, making for a challenging RB landscape. How rough are things at the position this week? Well, Gus Edwards is RB17 in the FantasyPros Expert Consensus Rankings. The enthusiasm among rankers is no doubt being pumped up by Edwards’ three-TD performance against the Cardinals last week. Gus Bus is only RB29 in PPR points per game, and after demolishing the Cardinals’ marshmallow-soft run defense last week, Edwards gets a much tougher Week 9 matchup against a Seattle defense that ranks eighth in DVOA against the run and is yielding 3.1 yards per carry to RBs. But Edwards has gotten double-digit carries in seven straight games and has averaged 15.2 carries per game since the start of October. Edwards’ ECR may indeed be inflated, but I’m not far behind in ranking him RB20.
I’m not that worried about Alexander Mattison getting usurped by backup Cam Akers, but I don’t want anything to do with the Minnesota running game this week. Fifth-round rookie Jaren Hall makes his NFL debut for the Vikings at quarterback a week after Kirk Cousins tore his Achilles, and Minnesota is facing an Atlanta defense that has given up the fourth-fewest fantasy points to RBs (although a season-ending injury to DT Grady Jarrett makes the Falcons’ run defense slightly less impregnable).
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