Cowboys vs. Eagles Fantasy Football Worksheet, Week 12

The Worksheet, a comprehensive fantasy football preview by Rich Hribar, breaks down everything you need to know about the Week 12 matchup between the Cowboys and Eagles.

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Quarterback

Jalen Hurts: Hurts and the Philadelphia passing game stumbled again on Sunday night.

Hurts completed a season-low 50% of his passes (14 of 28) for 135 yards (4.8 Y/A) with no touchdowns or interceptions.

He added 31 yards and a touchdown on the ground, his first rushing score since Week 6.

Out of the bye, Hurts has been the QB18 (12 points) and QB13 (14.5 points).

He has faced Green Bay and Detroit, but we have lacked spike weeks from Hurts all season.

He has only had two weeks as a top-six scorer this season.

He also only has two weeks lower than QB13, so the floor has remained high.

This game is indoors in Dallas with a lofty game total, so there is upside potential here to keep Hurts on the board as a QB1.

There is still some fragility.

We have to keep taking a step of faith in believing that this offense can flip a switch based on talent.

Lane Johnson will not play in this game.

The Eagles have run 153 plays without Johnson on the field this season and are averaging 4.2 yards per play on those snaps.

That would rank ahead of only the Browns on the season (4.0).

With Johnson on the field, they average 5.4 yards per play, which would be 14th in the league.

Hurts has completed 57.6% of his passes (38 of 66) with Johnson off the field for 6.8 yards per pass attempt.

Those rates would rank 33rd and 22nd on the season if they were full-season rates.

This matchup also highlights some of the issues where this passing game has struggled.

Dallas came out of the bye last week with a host of new players on defense.

They traded for Quinnen Williams and Logan Wilson before the deadline, while getting Malik Hooker, Donovan Wilson, and DeMarvion Overshown back from injuries.

Williams had 7 pressures and 2 sacks in his Dallas debut.

Dallas has still allowed a league-high 19.3 passing points per game, along with 4.8 rushing points per game (29th).

We are not just going to throw those out based on a one-week sample against the Raiders.

I am not going to immediately suggest that this is now a good unit we need to avoid, but there are a lot of moving parts here, and what Dallas has done defensively to date may not represent who they are moving forward.

Dallas has been a heavy zone-based team under Matt Eberflus.

The Cowboys have played zone coverages on 79.4% of passing plays, fifth in the league.

When these teams played in Week 1, Eberflus played a completely passive defense, playing man coverage on 3.2% of plays (none of which resulted in a pass).

Hurts has had issues with zone-based defenses all of 2025, since this offense has little creativity.

Against zone coverages, Hurts has completed 69.6% of his passes (17th) for 7.0 yards per pass attempt (22nd) and a 2.1% touchdown rate (18th).

A big part of that is that his wide receivers are running so many static routes.

The Eagles have three wide receivers in the top 10 of the rate of routes run that are hitches.

Jahan Dotson is first (29.7%), DeVonta Smith is second (28.6%), and A.J. Brown is 10th (24%).

Dotson is second in the rate of go routes (28.8%), Brown is 9th (24%), and Smith is 17th (22%).

The first matchup between these teams was an odd one for Hurts.

He completed a league-high 82.6% of his passes but only managed 152 yards passing (6.6 Y/A) and 0 passing touchdowns.

Hurts threw the football to his wide receivers at a career-low rate.

Only 34.8% of his passes traveled five or more yards in the air, the lowest rate in the league in Week 1 (the league average was 54.2%).

Only 13% of his throws were 10 or more yards downfield.

The next-closest quarterback was at 22.5%, while the league rate was 34.4%.

Another component of that approach is that it forced Hurts to scramble more than he ever has.

Hurts scrambled on a career-high 27.3% of his dropbacks.

He had 2 rushing touchdowns on scrambles.

His other 4 touchdowns on the ground this year have been via the pushing of the tush.

To go along with 63 scramble yards, Hurts still managed 24.3 fantasy points (QB8).

Dak Prescott: Prescott came out of the bye hot, completing 25 of 33 passes (75.8%) for 268 yards and 4 touchdowns on Monday night against the Raiders.

That snapped a two-game slide in which Prescott was a QB2 against the Broncos and Cardinals.

This will be a challenging task for Prescott and this passing game.

The Eagles are hot defensively.

They have not allowed multiple passing touchdowns since Week 4.

They are allowing a league-low 56.8% completion rate, 6.6 yards per pass attempt (6th), and a 2.7% touchdown rate (2nd).

The Eagles are fourth in passing points allowed per attempt (0.391).

Prescott has faced four opponents in the top 10 in that department.

He had a QB1 overall-scoring week against the Packers (31 points) to remind us that this game still has shootout upside.

There is also volatility, which is why I am handling Prescott as a boom-or-bust option on the QB1/QB2 line.

He does not have the rushing upside of Hurts, and even if you believe the Dallas defense is better, that rushing component, along with the matchup, separates the two.

The other three games were against the Cardinals (15.4 points), Broncos (6.6 points), and, of course, the Eagles back in Week 1 (7.8 points).

It was a nondescript fantasy night for Prescott in Week 1, but he played a better real-life game than the box score showed.

He had the highest aggressive thrown rate per Next Gen Stats (26.5%) and was fourth among all passers in big-time throw rate per Pro Football Focus (10.3%).

He was not sacked and had the highest drop rate (11.8%) in Week 1.

The Eagles have some new faces of their own in this rematch.

Jalen Carter was ejected before the first offensive snap in Week 1.

They have added Jaelan Phillips to the front.

Phillips has 12 pressures in two games since joining the Eagles.

Running Back

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