3 Fantasy Football Quarterback Streaming Options for Week 6
Baker Mayfield, Cleveland Browns
Yahoo Ownership: 37%
Baker Mayfield surpasses our ownership threshold by a little bit, but on a tough week for streaming passers, it's worth mentioning him in case he's free in your league.
The Cleveland Browns' rookie is coming off a solid showing -- 25 of 43 for 342 yards, 1 score and 1 pick -- at home against a tough Baltimore Ravens defense, a unit our schedule-adjusted metrics have as the second-best D in the league. He's got a much easier matchup in Week 6 as Cleveland hosts the Los Angeles Chargers.
LA was supposed to have a stout defense, but they've given up the ninth-most fantasy points to quarterbacks and sit as a middle-of-the-road unit, per our numbers.
Our projections have Mayfield as this week's QB17, forecasting him to score 17.36 points. And as a plus, you can hold onto him for a few weeks as he's got a nice upcoming stretch with games against Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and Atlanta -- defenses that are struggling mightily -- before the Browns' Week 11 bye.
