Context is important when you look at numbers. This is obvious, but when you read the reactions of fantasy football owners, it’s apparently not.

Take Jerricho Cotchery – you’re not reading that incorrectly – ranks sixth in the entire league in the metric. Sixth! And teammate Antonio Brown, who just caught three more passes this morning while toasting a bagel, is third.

Any fan of football sees Cotchery’s performance this year as fluky, but you can’t ignore what he’s done. He’s fantasy football’s 22nd-best half-point PPR receiver, and has five double-digit fantasy point performances this year. He’s become Ben’s top red zone target on a team that lacks size in the receiving game.

If he’s on your waiver wire, he’s certainly a worthwhile add, especially if Emmanuel Sanders’ Sunday injury becomes any more serious.

The Atlanta Falcons have an Adjusted Defensive Net Expected Points total of 123.71, by far the worst in the league.

If you haven’t noticed yet, the Falcons defense is really bad.

As of today, their Adj. DNEP equals 123.71, the worst in the league. To have fun with their horrific feat, I thought we could play a game called, “What if the Chiefs defense played in Atlanta?”

Atlanta’s score of 123.71 means that, if you were to throw another team in their situation – an average one, too – they would have allowed 124 fewer points (or created a 124-point swing in their favor) than the Falcons have this year. p>

Conversely, the Chiefs defense is playing 72.67 points above expectation. Like the Falcons situation, this means a team would have allowed about 73 more points than the Chiefs have in a similar situation.

The difference between Kansas City's defense and Atlanta's defense is 196.38. Divide that by the number of games played – 10 – and we’re talking 19.63 points being saved in the Falcons favor per game this year if Atlanta had the KC defense.