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It’s playoff time for some fantasy football leagues, so check out our wide receiver rankings. Also, don’t forget to spend time making a good decision for the tight end position. And here are our Week 14 defense and special teams rankings.
Where is the best place to start? How about a place with temperatures expected to be below freezing and a chance of snow? Yep, let’s go get our top defensive pick from Cleveland. They take on the Titans at home.
Coming off a disappointing week, the Browns may not seem like a comfortable choice. However, they should feast on the Titans and their sack-prone quarterback, Cam Ward. With Myles Garrett chasing the all-time sack record, he should be well motivated to get another multi-sack game.
Plus, the Browns are at home. And before their stinker against the 49ers, that had been a top-six fantasy unit four times out of five weeks. This is another week to trust Kevin Stefanski’s defense.
All eyes will be on Garrett, as they usually are, but that will free things up for other guys to wreak havoc. The 49ers made sure they knew where Garrett was, according to cleveland.com.
“You have to be aware when you see (Garrett),” 49ers right tackle Colton McKivitz said. “We had some protection stuff built into where we weren’t following him. But you know, we had a pretty good idea of where he was going to line up.
“We did a fantastic job up front protecting Brock (Purdy). We limited (Garrett) to one (sack). I mean, you want it to be zero, but he’s a great player. He’s having a record year, hope he gets it.”
Even 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh is rooting for Garrett.
“Go get that record, man,” Saleh said.
Garrett is certainly zeroed in on it, according to apnews.com.
“I don’t even think about it as a want — I just think about something that I’m going to knock down,” Garrett said Friday. “It’s already been written in my mind that it’s going just how far I’m going to take it. So, just going to go out there and do what I do, and whatever number I end up at.”
But Garrett is more than just a pass rusher.
“Yeah, I want to be remembered as one of the very best at the position, and that includes being well-rounded, in the run and pass,” Garrett said. “I know the record for TFL’s is 39, and I feel like I can go and challenge that — that’s not out of reach, either.”
As good a pick as the Browns are this week as a defensive unit, the Broncos are right there, too. They get to feast on another of the NFL’s worst offenses, the Raiders.
And the Broncos should be a little surly after their lukewarm performance against the Commanders and their backup quarterback. It wasn’t a sound effort, according to The Athletic.
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