Week One: Top 25 Fantasy Football Kickers
Fantasy Football 2011 Kicker Rankings: Adam Vinatieri Still No. 1
Fantasy football is just about to start. This year, SB Nation has hooked up with numberFire.com to bring you player projections each week. Enjoy the Top 25 kicker rankings.
SB Nation has partnered with numberFire.com this year to bring you a new set of fantasy football player projections. For more details on the algorithmic modeling and analysis that helps create these weekly projections, head over to numberFire.com. They’ve shown to be accurate in 2010, so we’ll take look at 2011.
Not many fantasy football general managers are shuffling kickers in and out of the lineup based on projections each week. I mean, carrying one roster spot for kickers is enough, holding two is a tough proposition. But, maybe you don’t like your guy and are looking for someone else. Whatever the case, here are the week one projections for kickers.
Looks like the numbers call for a lot of scoring in the Colts and Texans matchup. Colts kicker Adam Vianteiri is the top-rated kicker, followed by Houston’s Neil Rackers. Other than that, if your guy shows up low or not even on the projections chart, take a look on your waiver wire, you might try an upgrade.
Projections based on a standard scoring league.
| Kickers | |
| Player | Fantasy Points |
| Adam Vinatieri (K, IND) | 9.90 |
| Neil Rackers (K, HOU) | 9.27 |
| Nate Kaeding (K, SD) | 9.10 |
| Garrett Hartley (K, NO) | 9.02 |
| Mason Crosby (K, GB) | 8.87 |
| Matt Bryant (K, ATL) | 8.51 |
| Sebastian Janikowski (K, OAK) | 8.18 |
| David Akers (K, SEA) | 7.80 |
| Dan Bailey (K, DAL) | 7.56 |
| Rob Bironas (K, TEN) | 7.47 |
| Lawrence Tynes (K, NYG) | 7.40 |
| Billy Cundiff (K, BAL) | 7.37 |
| Stephen Gostkowski (K, NE) | 7.21 |
| Shaun Suisham (K, PIT) | 7.12 |
| Nick Folk (K, NYJ) | 6.95 |
| Josh Brown (K, STL) | 6.89 |
| Connor Barth (K, TB) | 6.71 |
| Alex Henery (K, PHI) | 6.65 |
| Dan Carpenter (K, MIA) | 6.31 |
| Ryan Longwell (K, MIN) | 5.74 |
| Dave Rayner (K, DAL) | 5.62 |
| Josh Scobee (K, JAX) | 5.57 |
| Robbie Gould (K, CHI) | 5.55 |
| Shayne Graham (K, NE) | 5.53 |
| Ryan Succop (K, KC) | 5.26 |
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