Welcome to Week 5 of The Worksheet, a fantasy football overview, by Rich Hribar.

Unbelievably, we are already into October and a third of the fantasy regular season as blown by. Hopefully, you are sitting in a good place through four weeks. Week 5 has two teams on bye, so make sure you remove all of your Lions and Packers from lineups this week and hopefully, we have no surprises this week. We are now fleshing out a real sample on what we have on a team basis. As always, with the more information we acquire, the most robust our evidence-based approach can be. 

This article will be updated throughout the week to reflect major news or injury implications. I encourage that you use the game by game tables and data points here in conjunction with the player rankings that will be available every week this season each Wednesday and enjoy the games.

Click the matchups below for the individual game previews.

Week 5 Matchups

TB at CHI: Thursday, Oct 8 – 8:20pm ET
ARI at NYJ: Sunday, Oct 11 – 1pm ET
LVR at KC: Sunday, Oct 11 – 1pm ET
BUF at TEN: Sunday, Oct 11 – 1pm ET
DEN at NE: Sunday, Oct 11 – 1pm ET
LAR at WFT: Sunday, Oct 11 – 1pm ET
CAR at ATL: Sunday, Oct 11 – 1pm ET
CIN at BAL: Sunday, Oct 11 – 1pm ET
JAX at HOU: Sunday, Oct 11 – 1pm ET
PHI at PIT: Sunday, Oct 11 – 1pm ET (unlocked)
MIA at SF: Sunday, Oct 11 – 4:05pm ET
NYG at DAL: Sunday, Oct 11 – 4:25pm ET
IND at CLE: Sunday, Oct 11 – 4:25pm ET
MIN at SEA: Sunday, Oct 11 – 8:20pm ET
LAC at NO: Monday, Oct 12 – 8:15pm ET