Categories: 2012

Week 5 Fantasy Football Rankings: RB, K, DST

Only LeSean McCoy and Ray Rice have averaged more Fantasy points than Lynch over the past three seasons.

Bye weeks are upon us like a shutdown cornerback on a cool autumn afternoon. (I paint a pretty picture, no?) With four teams off with a bye, the Week 5 Fantasy RB Rankings look thinner than ever. On your bench go running backs like Doug Martin, DeMarco Murray, Mikel LeShoure and Darren McFadden. (OK, sure, you were probably mad at most of them for Week 4 anyway.

Week 5 Fantasy Football Rankings

Yesterday, I posted the Week 5 Fantasy Football Rankings for the quarterbacks, wide receivers and tight ends. Today, I’m working on the Week 5 Fantasy RB Rankings, as well as the kickers and defense/special teams.

Also this week, I sat down with Tim Stafford and Jarret Behar of DynastyLeagueFootball.com for a really fun podcast. You can listen to it at Blog Talk Radio, or you can listen to it here. We discuss several players of interest, from their dynasty league perspective and I chip in with my yearly league viewpoint. It’s a hoot! At one point, I even say, [spoiler alert] “Kick in the nuts!”

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Week 5 NFL Schedule

Arizona at St. Louis
Green Bay at Indianapolis
Baltimore at Kansas City
Cincinnati at Miami
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh
Atlanta at Washington
Cleveland at N.Y. Giants
Seattle at Carolina
Chicago at Jacksonville
Denver at New England
Buffalo at San Francisco
Tennessee at Minnesota
San Diego at New Orleans
Houston at N.Y. Jets

Week 5 Fantasy RB Rankings

The following rankings are for non-PPR leagues, with four points for passing TDs. A lot of people wonder, why do we do rankings for non-PPR, when any serious Fantasy Football owner is playing in a PPR league? The answer is — only 28 percent of leagues on CBSSports.com use “points per reception” as a scoring unit.

The good folks at Four-Downs.com supply the rankings tool, so we’re grateful for their help. There are several teams with byes this week, including the Buccaneers, Cowboys, Lions and Raiders.

I posted the Week 5 Fantasy Football Rankings for the QBs, WRs and TEs on Wednesday.

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Week 5 RB Fantasy Rankings

Week 5 K Fantasy Rankings

Week 5 DST Fantasy Rankings

David Gonos

David Gonos spent 5 years as a CBSSports.com Senior Fantasy Writer and three more years writing with SI.com. Over the past 17 years, his work has been published on NFL.com, MLB.com, FanDuel, FoxSports.com and USA Today. Since 2001, he has been tracking down the Top 50-plus Free Fantasy Football Draft Tools online. You can contact David Gonos here.