{"id":70021,"date":"2022-09-08T17:27:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wr-cornerback-matchups-week-1-fantasy-sleepers\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T17:27:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:27:05","slug":"wr-cornerback-matchups-week-1-fantasy-sleepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wr-cornerback-matchups-week-1-fantasy-sleepers\/","title":{"rendered":"WR\/Cornerback Matchups: Week 1 Fantasy Sleepers"},"content":{"rendered":"
The NFL season is finally here, and I’m excited to share the completely free WR\/CB Matchup Chart for the third straight year.<\/p>\n
During the past two seasons I have tweaked my process to make the chart more user friendly and predictive, but NFL teams are moving receivers around more than ever in today’s game. It is difficult to pinpoint which CB each WR will be matched up against. The chart is designed to give a 1-vs-1 matchup for each player, but the reality is that most NFL WRs will see a mix of all the DBs they face each week. The chart is best used to understand how teams are defending outside versus inside receivers if teams are shadowing, and how much emphasis they put on slowing down the opposing WR1.<\/p>\n
Week 1 is always particularly interesting because of player movement and coaching changes. The PPGA (points per game against) column is blank, and the only metric to help describe matchups is my rating of each CB. That rating is derived from movie study, player profiles, and advanced statistics.<\/p>\n
Featured Promo:<\/strong> Get any full-season NFL Premium Pass for 50% off<\/strong> and win big in 2022. Exclusive access to our Draft Kit, new Team Sync platform, premium articles, rankings and projections, 15 lineup tools and Premium DFS tools and cheat sheets.<\/em> The CB Matchup Chart below is a snapshot of each team’s cornerback group as it relates to allowing fantasy points. There are inherent flaws within the data compilation of cornerback play. The first is the fact that quantifying a 1-on-1 matchup in an NFL game is unfair because of zone coverages, mental errors, certain passing concepts, and a million other things. Assigning fantasy points against a cornerback isn’t a perfect science.<\/p>\n The purpose of this chart is to give more of a general sense of how defenses are handling opposing WR groups rather than identifying exactly where, when, and how every single encounter happened. Another factor to consider is that players are listed based on where they line up the majority of the time. Most receivers do not line up on one side on every single snap, so they won’t be matched up with the same CB on every snap.<\/p>\n The “Rtng” column is the rating of each cornerback based on film study and analytics. The lower a player is graded, the easier the matchup for the WR, so low ratings are green and high ratings are red. The “PPGA” is the number of fantasy points per game that the player has given up on average this year (in Week 1 it is blank). Keep in mind that team scheme is a huge factor in points assigned to specific players. A name in blue means the corner could possibly shadow the WR1. A name in red means that the player is dealing with an injury.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Cornerback Ratings and Matchups Chart – Week 1<\/span><\/h2>\n