While there are BOD rankings below based on Week 1, it’s important to remember will likely take about three weeks for us to have enough information to start to see which DSTs we can trust and which offenses we want to attack. The rankings will take into account their BOD ranking, opponent, injuries, weather, etc., but I hope my explanation will help make sense of each ranking. That’s why we have this column where I will be breaking down my rankings for each week and an explanation of why I have the defenses ranked the way I do. BOD is meant to tell us who the best fantasy defenses are, but depending on the matchup, they might be ranked differently in a given week. It’s important to clarify that the BOD rankings ARE NOT to be treated as weekly rankings. (% Drives ending in a Score x 2) + (Yards per play) (Pressure Rate x 2) + (Sacks) + (QB Hurry Rate) + (%Drives ending in a Turnover x 2) Just a quick reminder of the BOD formula: Let’s see if we can get back to our winning ways in Week 5. That’s almost always a recipe for fantasy defense success and, what do you know, those teams play against one another this weekend. We know the Bears and Commanders also have offensive lines that give up a lot of pressure and playmaking quarterbacks who can often force the ball when they shouldn’t. I do think the Giants offense will get better once Andrew Thomas and Saquon Barkley return, but it’s not going to be a magical fix.

Meanwhile, the top five teams we do want to target are the Giants, Bears, Commanders, Browns, and Patriots. Joshua Dobbs has been eluding sacks with his legs and has yet to throw an interception, and, as we’ve said all year long, if teams aren’t turning the ball over or giving up sacks, they’re not going to be a team we want to target. That’s fewer points that the Dolphins allow to opposing DSTs. They give up, on average, just 3.3 points per game to opposing DSTs. Right now, the Cardinals are the 28th-most friendly matchup to opposing defenses. However, now that we’re four weeks into the season, we’re also starting to get more information that we can use to iron out some of the kinks in the rankings.įor starters, we need to stop picking on Arizona. We nailed just four of the top 10 defenses, with seemingly strong units like the Eagles, Cowboys, and Steelers all falling outside of the top 10. Week 4 was not a great one for our defense rankings.

Week 5 fantasy ranking