The Worksheet: Week 1 Fantasy Football, All You Need To Know

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.

The NFL is inherently a fluid game, with things in constant motion. What was yesterday is not always tomorrow and will be different in the middle of the season.

There is always a lot of ambiguity in the first week of a new season.

With a fresh start to a new season, taking an evidence-based approach is easier said than done. While this article thrives on diagnosing players that will outproduce their expectations, these opening few weeks will be about establishing the groundwork to accurately do that as the season progresses.

You will see some peppered in “Trusts” for players  I feel strongly about early, but they will be far lighter early on as we are learning what we can apply to this season accurately since those 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 each Wednesday. Most importantly, enjoy the games.

Click the matchups below for the individual game previews.

Week 1 Fantasy Football Matchups