The Worksheet, a fantasy football overview by Rich Hribar, breaking down everything you need to know for the Week 18 Seattle Seahawks at Arizona Cardinals Sunday afternoon game.
| Seattle | Rank | @ | Arizona | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | Spread | -6.5 | ||
| 20.5 | Implied Total | 27 | ||
| 22.3 | 17 | Points/Gm | 26.2 | 11 |
| 21 | 10 | Points All./Gm | 20.5 | 5 |
| 56.1 | 32 | Plays/Gm | 65.9 | 7 |
| 70.6 | 32 | Opp. Plays/Gm | 60.7 | 7 |
| 5.7 | 15 | Off. Yards/Play | 5.7 | 11 |
| 5.4 | 18 | Def. Yards/Play | 5.3 | 15 |
| 42.70% | 13 | Rush% | 44.40% | 9 |
| 57.30% | 20 | Pass% | 55.60% | 24 |
| 42.60% | 19 | Opp. Rush % | 40.78% | 13 |
| 57.40% | 14 | Opp. Pass % | 59.22% | 20 |
Motivation or Rest Alert
The Cardinals can win the NFC West with a win here and Rams loss, so they will be playing for the potential of a home game in the postseason. Given their wonky home and road splits maybe that is a bad thing but expect them their core players to go play in full.
Seattle has been eliminated for the postseason and this could potentially be the final game we see Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll together.
Quarterback
Kyler Murray: Murray has now thrown for fewer than 7.0 yards per pass attempt in each of his past three games, but once again showed how he can get there for fantasy still no matter what given his ability to run and play a clean game. Murray threw for 6.9 yards per pass attempt Sunday but added a pair of passing scores and 44 yards on the ground. The past two weeks have been far from perfect outings, but Murray has still posted 21.9 and 22.9 fantasy points in those games, which is why he is always a locked-in QB1 option.
Murray will look to close the regular strong against a Seattle defense that is 27th in passing points allowed per game (15.9) and allowed a 79.5% completion rate and 328 yards to Colt McCoy when these teams played in Week 11.
