The Worksheet: Week 4 NFL Fantasy Football Game Previews

Welcome to Week 4 of The Worksheet, Rich Hribar's comprehensive fantasy football preview.

What is The Worksheet?

The Worksheet is a comprehensive weekly fantasy football preview for each NFL game. Rich Hribar analyzes matchups for every notable fantasy player in every game, every week of the NFL season.

We have gone up and down to start the year, with two polar-opposite weeks to kick off the season.

Week 3 showed us some middle ground between the high-scoring Week 1 and down Week 2.

Offenses scored 23.0 points per game in Week 3, up from 19.7 in Week 2.

We had our lowest sack rate of the season (5.6%), down from 7.2% in Week 1 and 7.7% in Week 2.

Offenses had their best week on third downs, converting a season-high 41.7%.

Passing yardage was also at a season high, with teams averaging 226.6 yards through the air.

One thing that is still rather annoying is that penalties remain up.

Teams averaged 7.4 penalties per game, matching Week 1 for the most in a week this season.

We had our highest automatic first downs via penalties (2.1 per game) of the early season.

We are still one week away from bye weeks starting, but we've reached the point in the season where there are international games kicking off before the main slate.

We have early kickoffs for each of the next four weeks.

This week, the Colts and Commanders play in London.

Be sure to account for players in that game ahead of the early kickoff.

We are still working with small samples as we approach the close of the first four weeks of the season.

For the most part, we are still focusing on initial usage notes to understand what's working and diagnose where players met or exceeded expectations.

For defenses, we factor in opponents and team performance relative to what those opponents have done against other teams.

If you have been following this post for the past few seasons, tangible information builds up, and this post keeps growing.

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, along with the player rankings available every Wednesday.

Enjoy the games!

Click the matchups below for the individual game previews.

Week 4 Fantasy Football Matchups