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Week 6 Start / Sit
The best starts at every position this week, a headline pick, sleepers and sits — with the reasoning on every row. Weather and injuries feed these projections as inputs; this page reads them back out, so you can see exactly which multipliers moved a number and check the arithmetic yourself. Add your roster at the bottom for a lineup.
Starter of the week
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LAR · vs ARI · projected WR2 this week
- +13.6 pts against the WR24 replacement level for a 12-team league.
- Projected WR2 this week; drafted as WR2 by consensus.
- WOPR 0.81 over his last 2 games, against 0.68 across 16 games in 2025 (+0.1). An opportunity fact — it moves no projection.
- vs ARI. 18.6 per game across 6 prior meetings — context only, never a projection input.
- vs ARI — allowed 37.0 PPR/gm to WRs, 7th most of 32 (5 games). A measurement, not a projection input.
- Dome
- Dome — no weather impact
- No injury report filed for him this week.
Chosen by a stated rule, not a score: of the players projected inside your league's starting ranks who also gained a role in the week 6 opportunity snapshot, this is the one worth the most points over replacement. The trend qualified him; the projection ranked him. Neither number is blended into the other.
This week's best starts
The top 5 at each position by this week's adjusted projection, in PPR, with 2 defenses and 2 kickers — and a per-card control to open any one of them out to its full depth. Anyone who is not playing is removed before ranking rather than scored down: Out, on a reserve list, suspended, or on a bye. They are all on the sit cards below instead. Tap a row for the arithmetic and the facts behind it.
- 1Brandon AubreyDAL · @ GB · K1—
- 2Ka'imi FairbairnHOU · @ JAX · K2—
Goal Line projects no kickers — the stats database covers quarterbacks, backs, receivers and tight ends only. These are the consensus board's own top kickers, which is a draft-season ranking and not a read on this week. Kickers whose team is on a bye are left out, and the K numbers skip a place where that happens rather than renumbering around it.
Sleepers
Players projected inside your league's starting ranks this week whose draft position puts them outside it. The gap between the two qualifies him; within each position the list is then ordered by what that gap is worth — points over replacement — because a player who rose forty places into a slot nobody wants is a wide gap rather than a start. Both numbers are on the card, so the claim is checkable rather than atmospheric. Up to 2 at each of QB, RB, WR and TE plus 1 defense, counted per position rather than as one ranked list: the startable receiver board is three times as deep as the tight-end board, so a single pooled ranking reports where the board is wide as much as where the week is surprising. A position with nobody who clears the definition shows nobody, and the control below reveals every player who does rather than a fixed number of them — the list length is set by the definition printed above, not chosen.
- +2.7 pts against the QB12 replacement level for a 12-team league.
- Projected QB6 this week; drafted as QB26 by consensus.
- @ PHI. 16.1 per game across 2 prior meetings — context only, never a projection input.
- @ PHI — allowed 18.7 PPR/gm to QBs, 11th most of 32 (5 games). A measurement, not a projection input.
- 5 mph
- On the injury report (Knee) but practised in full. Players in that cohort took a snap in 83% of cases, the same rate as players on the report with no designation — so nothing is priced from it.
- +2.5 pts against the QB12 replacement level for a 12-team league.
- Projected QB7 this week; drafted as QB16 by consensus.
- vs ARI. 17.7 per game across 6 prior meetings — context only, never a projection input.
- vs ARI — allowed 22.6 PPR/gm to QBs, 3th most of 32 (5 games). A measurement, not a projection input.
- Dome
- Dome — no weather impact
- No injury report filed for him this week.
- +8.5 pts against the RB24 replacement level for a 12-team league.
- Projected RB8 this week; drafted as RB26 by consensus.
- Rush share 79% over his last 2 games, against 56% across 3 earlier games this season (+22 pts). An opportunity fact — it moves no projection.
- @ TB. 5.0 per game across 2 prior meetings — context only, never a projection input.
- @ TB — allowed 17.0 PPR/gm to RBs, 28th most of 32 (5 games). A measurement, not a projection input.
- 15 mph
- 15 mph wind. Goal Line does not price wind for RB — the effect did not clear its threshold in testing.
- No injury report filed for him this week.
- +7.4 pts against the RB24 replacement level for a 12-team league.
- Projected RB11 this week; drafted as RB33 by consensus.
- Rush share 77% over his last 2 games, against 50% across 2 earlier games this season (+27 pts). An opportunity fact — it moves no projection.
- @ PHI. 19.9 per game across 2 prior meetings — context only, never a projection input.
- @ PHI — allowed 20.8 PPR/gm to RBs, 16th most of 32 (5 games). A measurement, not a projection input.
- 5 mph
- No injury report filed for him this week.
- +9.6 pts against the WR24 replacement level for a 12-team league.
- Projected WR4 this week; drafted as WR28 by consensus.
- vs DAL. 32.7 per game across 1 prior meeting — context only, never a projection input.
- vs DAL — allowed 35.5 PPR/gm to WRs, 12th most of 32 (5 games). A measurement, not a projection input.
- 10 mph wind
- No injury report filed for him this week.
- +5.0 pts against the WR24 replacement level for a 12-team league.
- Projected WR10 this week; drafted as WR27 by consensus.
- vs HOU. 12.0 per game across 5 prior meetings — context only, never a projection input.
- vs HOU — allowed 41.0 PPR/gm to WRs, 2th most of 32 (5 games). A measurement, not a projection input.
- No forecast source — London, England is outside National Weather Service coverage
- No forecast source — London, England is outside National Weather Service coverage
- No injury report filed for him this week.
- +8.8 pts against the TE12 replacement level for a 12-team league.
- Projected TE1 this week; drafted as TE13 by consensus.
- WOPR 0.69 over his last 2 games, against 0.54 across 3 earlier games this season (+0.1). An opportunity fact — it moves no projection.
- vs NO. 16.6 per game across 2 prior meetings — context only, never a projection input.
- vs NO — allowed 16.7 PPR/gm to TEs, 7th most of 32 (5 games). A measurement, not a projection input.
- 2 mph
- On the injury report (Foot) but practised in full. Players in that cohort took a snap in 83% of cases, the same rate as players on the report with no designation — so nothing is priced from it.
- +2.1 pts against the TE12 replacement level for a 12-team league.
- Projected TE9 this week; drafted as TE20 by consensus.
- vs NYJ. 8.9 per game across 6 prior meetings — context only, never a projection input.
- vs NYJ — allowed 8.1 PPR/gm to TEs, 28th most of 32 (5 games). A measurement, not a projection input.
- No injury report filed for him this week.
Sit candidates
The mirror image, read off the same two numbers: drafted inside your league's starting ranks, projected outside them this week. Everybody who is not playing sorts to the top of their position — they have no projected rank at all. Out, on a reserve list or suspended first, then anyone on a bye, then the biggest falls. A bye-week player's row shows no projection on purpose: the number this engine holds for him is his recent form standing in for a game that is not being played, which is why he is on this card and not on the start cards above.
Your team
Everything above is league-wide. Tell Goal Line who is on your roster and it will set your lineup from the same projections — which players to start, which to bench, and what starting by draft order would cost you.
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Projections are Goal Line's own, built from historical weekly stats and adjusted for weather and injury designations from the official NFL injury report. See Intel for every input behind these numbers, and the Methodology section of the README for what is measured rather than assumed.