It’s Week 6 and Jay Ajayi is out for the year after tearing his ACL, Brandin Cooks and Cooper Kupp may or may not play due to their concussions, and Matt Breida is dealing with an ankle injury. Throw in byes for two of the more fantasy friendly teams—the Saints and the Lions—and more than a few owners are going to be scrambling to find a diamond in the rough for Week 6.
A great way to identify a potential spot start is to leverage 4for4’s signature strength-of-schedule metric, adjusted fantasy points allowed (aFPA). Many sites publish raw fantasy points allowed by position, but 4for4 goes a step further and adjusts those numbers for a defense’s relative year-to-date schedule strength.