Welcome to Week 1 of The Worksheet, a comprehensive fantasy football preview, by Rich Hribar.
What is The Worksheet from Rich Hribar?
The Worksheet is a comprehensive weekly fantasy football preview for each NFL game. Rich Hribar analyzes the matchup for every notable fantasy player for every game every week of the NFL season.
Months and months of fantasy preparation were poured in over the summer, and all that work is about to be put to the test as Week 1 of the NFL football season is finally upon us. It's important to remember:
- The NFL is inherently a fluid game with things in constant motion.
- What was yesterday is not always tomorrow and then will be different in the middle of the season.
- There is always a lot of ambiguity in the first week of a new NFL season.
- With a fresh start to a new season, taking an evidence-based approach is easier said than done.
While the crux of this article thrives on diagnosing players that will outproduce their expectations, these opening few weeks will be about establishing the groundwork that allows us to accurately do that.
You will see some peppered “Trusts” in for players that I feel strongly about, but they will be far lighter early on as we are learning what we can apply to this season accurately. Early “Trusts” are more due to feel than mountains of objective data this early in the season.
This article will be updated throughout the week to reflect major news or injury implications. I encourage you to use the game-by-game tables and data points here in conjunction with the player rankings that will be available every week this season on Wednesday and enjoy the games.
Click the matchups below for the individual game previews.
Week 1 Fantasy Football Matchups
- DET at KC: Thursday, Sep 7 -8:20 p.m. ET — FREE
- CAR at ATL: Sunday, Sep 10 – 1 p.m. ET
- HOU at BAL: Sunday, Sep 10 – 1 p.m. ET
- CIN at CLE: Sunday, Sep 10 – 1 p.m. ET
- JAX at IND: Sunday, Sep 10 – 1 p.m. ET
- TB at MIN: Sunday, Sep 10 – 1 p.m. ET
- TEN at NO: Sunday, Sep 10 – 1 p.m. ET
- SF at PIT: Sunday, Sep 10 – 1 p.m. ET
- ARI at WAS: Sunday, Sep 10 – 1 p.m. ET
- LV at DEN: Sunday, Sep 10 – 4:25 p.m. ET
- PHI at NE: Sunday, Sep 10 – 4:25 p.m. ET — FREE
- MIA at LAC: Sunday, Sep 10 – 4:25 p.m. ET
- GB at CHI: Sunday, Sep 10 – 4:25 p.m. ET
- LAR at SEA: Sunday, Sep 10 – 4:25 p.m. ET
- DAL at NYG: Sunday, Sep 10 – 8:20 p.m. ET
- BUF at NYJ: Monday, Sep 11 – 8:15 p.m. ET — FREE