Fantasy Football Week 6 Running Back Projections: Gore Rebounds

Week 6 Bye Teams: Denver, Tennessee, Kansas City, Arizona, San Diego, Seattle

The NFL has definitely become a pass-happy league, but there are still plenty of fantasy football points to be harvested from the crop of running backs.

Our friends at numberFire.com gave us the following list of their Top 25 running back projections for Week 6 of fantasy football. They base their numbers on historical statistical data fed into magical computer algorithms that produce the projections.

Ray Rice is the top dog this week. He’s been consistent all year, so ride him every week, after all, that’s why you drafted him. Watch out for the status of Joseph Addai, his hamstring could keep him out this week. After a very slow start, Frank Gore has rebounded over the past two weeks, this week the computer sees him as the eleventh best play for running backs.

Redskins running back Tim Hightower is expected to be back at full speed this week, but it bears watching how Mike Shanahan decides to use him after the re-emergence of Ryan Torain in the last game. Darren Sproles in New Orleans has worked his way into regular fantasy consideration with solid efforts so far. The below projections are not for PPR leagues, but Sproles is very valuable in that scoring system.

* Fantasy Points Projections are based on the Yahoo! and ESPN default scoring settings. Quarterbacks are scored with 1 point for every 25 passing yards, and 4 points for every touchdown. For running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends, they are scored with 1 point for every 10 total yards, and 6 points for every touchdown. This is a non-PPR projection.

Injured players appear on the list, this is their projection IF they play.