The Week 15 matchup between the New York Jets and the Dallas Cowboys is a complete mismatch on paper. We’ve got the fantasy projections courtesy of numberFire.
Fantasy football projections, Week 15: Jets-Cowboys featuring Ryan Fitzpatrick, Brandon Marshall and Dez Bryant
We break down the Week 15 matchup between the New York Jets and the Dallas Cowboys.
New York Jets
The Tennessee Titans have been getting smoked lately and giving up a ton of points, so odds are if you are the fantasy owner of a New York Jets player last week, you won and advanced to the next round of the playoffs. Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick threw for 263 yards and three touchdown passes. He’s now thrown at least two touchdown passes and no interceptions in three straight games. The Dallas Cowboys do have a good secondary unit, but it shouldn’t matter since Fitzpatrick and the Jets’ offense is totally clicking right now.
Fitzpatrick will as always will rely on his No. 1 receiver to get the job done this time around. That would be Brandon Marshall. Marshall now has touchdowns in seven straight games. He’s got at least 125 receiving yards in three straight games and four touchdowns over that span. Yes, we’ve thrown a lot of numbers at you here, but the bottom line is Marshall is simply putting them up over and over again. It doesn’t really matter that Dallas has a good secondary, Marshall has all the ability in the world, even at his advanced age.
Dallas Cowboys
Coming into the season, nobody would have guessed that wide receiver Dez Bryant would be sitting on just 27 catches for 351 yards and two touchdowns going into Week 15. A lackluster running game and a pair of broken collarbones to quarterback Tony Romo are to thank for that. Bryant’s season is a write-off. Surprisingly, the New York Jets have been relatively generous to fantasy wide receivers this season, but at this point the team around Bryant can’t be trusted, so to start him and assume that you have any chance of going to the next round of the fantasy postseason would be silly.
The only player in Dallas’ lineup worth considering this week is running back Darren McFadden. He only carried the ball nine times last week but surprisingly ripped off 111 yards. To do that against a solid New York Jets run defense is going to be really difficult, but McFadden is the only player in the offense aside from the quarterback guaranteed to get the ball on a regular basis. Quarterback Matt Cassel has trouble hitting receivers, but it shouldn’t be any trouble to hand off the ball. Even a high school quarterback can do that consistently.
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