Fantasy Football Week 6 Defense Projections: Jets Look Very Good This Week

Week 6 means more bye teams and more decisions on who to start. We look at fantasy player projections to help.

Oct 14, 2011, 5:35 PM UTC

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

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

This week, the New York Jets have a perfect situation for their defense to shine. The play at home, always a bonus, they play a bad Miami team, and the Dolphins are starting a new quarterback. That's the recipe for defensive fantasy points and lands the Jets defense at the top of the board. Cincinnati has been a solid defense all year, they land at sixth place this week in their matchup against the Manning-less Colts.

At the other end of the spectrum, the Cowboys face a Tom Brady Patriots team that is shredding the scoreboard so it might not be the best week for the Dallas defense.

Top Defenses powered by numberFire.com
Rank	Player	Opponent	Points
1	New York Jets D/ST (D, NYJ)	vs. MIA	10.86
2	Pittsburgh D/ST (D, PIT)	vs. JAX	10.19
3	Chicago D/ST (D, CHI)	vs. MIN	8.57
4	Green Bay D/ST (D, GB)	vs. STL	8.53
5	Baltimore D/ST (D, BAL)	vs. HOU	8.52
6	Cincinnati D/ST (D, CIN)	vs. IND	8.47
7	San Francisco D/ST (D, SF)	vs. DET	8.45
8	Detroit D/ST (D, DET)	vs. SF	8.38
9	Buffalo D/ST (D, BUF)	vs. NYG	8.13
10	Minnesota D/ST (D, MIN)	vs. CHI	8.12
11	Oakland D/ST (D, OAK)	vs. CLE	8.06
12	Washington D/ST (D, WAS)	vs. PHI	7.77
13	New Orleans D/ST (D, NO)	vs. TB	7.75
14	Atlanta D/ST (D, ATL)	vs. CAR	7.74
15	Philadelphia D/ST (D, PHI)	vs. WAS	7.56
16	Houston D/ST (D, HOU)	vs. BAL	7.40
17	Cleveland D/ST (D, CLE)	vs. OAK	7.38
18	New York Giants D/ST (D, NYG)	vs. BUF	7.04
19	New England D/ST (D, NE)	vs. DAL	6.95
20	Miami D/ST (D, MIA)	vs. NYJ	6.89
21	Tampa Bay D/ST (D, TB)	vs. NO	6.41
22	Carolina D/ST (D, CAR)	vs. ATL	6.15
23	Jacksonville D/ST (D, JAX)	vs. PIT	6.11
24	Indianapolis D/ST (D, IND)	vs. CIN	5.68
25	Dallas D/ST (D, DAL)	vs. NE	5.61