The Worksheet, a comprehensive fantasy football preview by Rich Hribar, breaks down everything you need to know about the Week 6 matchup between the Seahawks and Bengals.
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| Seattle | Rank | @ | Cincinnati | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | Spread | -2.5 | ||
| 21.75 | Implied Total | 24.25 | ||
| 27.8 | 6 | Points/Gm | 16.6 | 27 |
| 22.8 | 19 | Points All./Gm | 22.8 | 20 |
| 58.8 | 28 | Plays/Gm | 63.0 | 20 |
| 72.8 | 32 | Opp. Plays/Gm | 62.6 | 16 |
| 5.4 | 12 | Off. Yards/Play | 4.2 | 31 |
| 5.1 | 13 | Def. Yards/Play | 5.6 | 25 |
| 42.13% | 17 | Rush% | 33.65% | 30 |
| 57.87% | 16 | Pass% | 66.35% | 3 |
| 37.80% | 9 | Opp. Rush % | 46.33% | 25 |
| 62.20% | 24 | Opp. Pass % | 53.67% | 8 |
- Seattle has converted 28.9% (13-of-45) of their third down plays, 31st in the league and ahead of only the Jets (26.2%).
- The Seahawks are allowing opponents to convert 52.4% (33-of-63) of their third downs, 31st in the league.
- The Seahawks have turned the ball over on a league-low 2.3% of their possessions.
- The Bengals are averaging 1.8 fewer yards per rushing play than their opponent, the worst differential in the league.
- Seattle is averaging 1.2 more yards per rushing play than their opponent, tied for third in the league.
- 17.5% of the runs against the Bengals have gained 10 or more yards, 31st in the league.
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Quarterback
Joe Burrow: Burrow had by far his best outing of the season on Sunday, completing 36-of-46 passes for 317 yards with three touchdowns.
Closing the week as QB8 (23.4 points), it was the first time that Burrow was higher than QB20 this season.
Burrow still has not passed for 7.0 yards per attempt in a game this season, but he was better on downfield throws Sunday than over his previous four weeks.
On throws 10 yards or further downfield, Burrow was 5-of-11 for 122 yards with a touchdown and an interception.
Through the first four weeks, he was last in the NFL in completing 28.9% of those passes without a touchdown.
Facing a passive Arizona defense, Burrow will look to string his Week 5 success and prove that he is indeed back in our graces as a weekly QB1 again.
The Bengals were so bad over the opening four weeks of the season that they do need to have more than one semi-good outing against one of the league’s worst defenses.
Whereas Arizona is last in the NFL in pressure rate, and blitz rate, and plays man coverage at the eight-lowest rate in the NFL, Seattle is eighth in the league in pressure rate (38.4%) and 16th in blitz rate (24.9%), but they play man coverage at the third-lowest rate in the league.
Seattle is allowing 7.4 yards per pass attempt (20th) and they are 15th in passing points allowed per attempt (0.381), but this should be a high-dropback game for the Bengals given that they cannot run the ball and Seattle has been good against the run.
Opponents are attempting a league-high 41.3 pass attempts per game against Seattle.
Andy Dalton’s 58 pass attempts are inflating those totals, but every other quarterback they have faced has thrown the ball 34 or more times.
Burrow has 40 or more pass attempts in three of his past four games.
Burrow is a boom-or-bust option on the QB1/QB2 line.
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