B/R Fantasy Football’s Game-by-Game Guide to Winning Week 9
A quarterback, a quarterback, my kingdom for a quarterback.
Week 9 is the weirdest in recent memory at the NFL’s most important position. After losing Kirk Cousins to a torn Achilles last week, the Minnesota Vikings will roll out rookie Jaren Hall Sunday. The Atlanta Falcons have benched Desmond Ridder in favor of Taylor Heinicke. The Las Vegas Raiders are going with rookie Aidan O’ Connell over Jimmy Garoppolo.
After trading Joshua Dobbs to Minnesota, the Arizona Cardinals will start rookie Clayton Tune against Cleveland, who may be going with P.J. Walker again. With Justin Fields still out, undrafted rookie Tyson Bagent will make his third start against the New Orleans Saints.
All that movement doesn’t just affect the quarterback position for those teams. It affects everyone. And that has thrown many fantasy managers for quite the loop.
In an effort to help those managers regain their footing, we have assembled a game-by-game guide where you’ll find everything you need (coupled with our weekly Big Board) to earn a victory in Week 9: Injury news, players to start and sit, sleepers and even guys who are (or should be) on the trade block.
We’ll start in Pittsburgh, where another first-year signal-caller is set to make career start No. 2.
