Browns vs. 49ers Fantasy Football Worksheet, Week 13

The Worksheet, a comprehensive fantasy football preview by Rich Hribar, breaks down everything you need to know about the Week 13 matchup between the Browns and 49ers.

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Quarterback

Brock Purdy: Purdy had a Monday night to forget.

He threw for 6.0 yards per pass attempt, his lowest rate over his four games this season.

I buried the lede a bit, as he also threw 3 interceptions.

Purdy has now thrown multiple interceptions in three of his four games this year.

He has thrown 7 interceptions on 131 pass attempts compared to Mac Jones, who threw 6 on his 289 attempts.

Over his four games played, Purdy has one QB1 scoring week.

Purdy is a volatile QB2 here in a tough matchup on the road.

The Browns have allowed only two quarterbacks to finish higher than QB16 in a week this season, Lamar Jackson and Drake Maye on the road.

At home this season, the Browns have allowed 6.5 yards per pass attempt (11th) and a 2.9% touchdown rate (3rd).

At home, they have faced Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, Jordan Love, and Tua Tagovailoa.

Jim Schwartz has given Kyle Shanahan issues over their careers.

Schwartz’s teams are 6-1 against Shanahan as a coordinator or head coach, including a 3-0 record with Shanahan in San Francisco.

In those games, Shanahan’s quarterbacks have completed 55.7% of their passes for 6.4 yards per pass attempt, a 2.0% touchdown rate, and a 4.3% interception rate.

One of Purdy’s worst games over his early career came in Cleveland in 2023.

In that game, Purdy was 12 of 27 (44.4%) for 125 yards (4.6 Y/A) with a touchdown and an interception.

That game was played in ugly, rainy conditions, but there is potential for that here as well, given that Cleveland's weather is always in play at the tail end of November.

Shedeur Sanders: Sanders will draw another start this week after Cleveland pulled out a win on the road in Las Vegas.

Sanders was the first Cleveland quarterback to win his first career start since Eric Zeier in 1995, snapping a 17-game losing streak for those first-time starters.

Sanders was a mixed bag, to say the least.

He completed 11 of 20 (55%) passes for 209 yards with a touchdown and an interception.

He closed the week as the QB18 (10.3 points) for fantasy.

Sanders completed 6.1% fewer passes than expected, which was QB25 on the week.

We came in expecting Sanders to at least push the football for better or worse, and he did.

Sanders averaged a league-high 10.4 air yards per attempt.

He made two outstanding plays downfield out of structure.

The first was a 52-yard strike to Isaiah Bond, and the second was a 39-yard play finding Jerry Jeudy downfield.

Paired with a 66-yard screen pass that Dylan Sampson took to the house, the Browns had their three largest passing gains of the season on Sunday.

Sanders built the crux of performance around those plays.

That does not inspire sustainability, but at least it was something different for an offense that was failing in one of the most uninspiring ways.

The Browns used last week’s game script to insulate Sanders.

Cleveland threw the ball 7% below expectations.

Sanders also only took 1 sack despite a league-high 57.1% pressure rate.

Sanders was credited as the culprit for a league-high 44.4% of those pressures, something that was an issue for him in college.

The way Sanders performed last week makes it hard to view him as anything but a back-end option for needy 2QB gamers with all of the teams active this week.

He will face another soft pass rush, as the 49ers are 31st in pressure rate (29.4%) and last in the NFL in sack rate (3%).

While the 49ers have been a defense we have targeted over the back half of the year, they have held up against streaming options.

The 49ers have allowed six QB1 scoring weeks over their past eight games, but they were against Matthew Stafford (twice), Baker Mayfield, Jaxson Dart, C.J. Stroud, and Jacoby Brissett.

They held Michael Penix (12.2 points) and Bryce Young (8.3 points) down over that stretch.

They are not a scary matchup for those chasing Sanders here, but we are not flying in with high aspirations, either.

Running Back

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