Week 5 of the fantasy football season brings the first bye weeks. Don’t forget to check those rosters and make sure players on a bye won’t cause you problems come Sunday. The first week of byes include Cleveland, Dallas, St. Louis, Miami, Washington and Baltimore.
Fantasy Football Week 5 Overall Projections: Arian Foster Is Back
Week 5 is the first week when teams are on a bye. See how that shakes up the projections for fantasy football.
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To kick off Week 5, we've got projections from our partner, numberFire.com. The computer spit out a Top 25 rankings list and as usual most of the high rankings go to quarterbacks, and it's the usual suspects. Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Philip Rivers are the top three, but the return of Arian Foster means a running back makes the top five. Foster crushed the Steelers defense last week, and with Andre Johnson out of the lineup, Foster is sure to see a lot of action this week versus Oakland.
At the beginning of the year, almost nobody thought that Cam Newton would produce like he has through the first quarter of the season. The computer loves Cam this week versus New Orleans, so get him in your lineup. And how about Jason Campbell? We didn't foresee Top 10 rankings for him but the computer places him at nine this week.
* 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.
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