Fantasy Football Week Day 5: Kickers/DEF

Kickers and defense round out most fantasy drafts. And that's for a reason. Kickers should not be the number one option on the field and shouldn't be the number option on your team, either. What I like to do with kickers and defenses is to watch the waiver wire week to week. If Baltimore and Pittsburgh are playing mid-December football, I'd put money down that it will be a low-scoring game. So I search the wire for one of those two kickers and keep your fingers crossed.

I'll tell ya one thing though. If you're looking for an all-around fantasy player, hope fantasy engines make Bengals WR Chad Ochocino kicker eligible. Did you see him kick that extra point against the Patriots last night? Did you see that form? He may have a better year at kicker than wide receiver. AND we'd get to see a lot more celebrations from Ochocinco. It's win-win.


Seeing how it's Friday, let's do the top 5 fantasy kickers:

1. Stephen Gostkowski, NE
2. Rob Bironas, TEN
3. Ryan Longwell, MIN
4. Kris Brown, HOU
5. David Akers, PHI

Drafting defenses can be a little more complicated. When you go to draft a defense remember that special teams is apart of the scoring too. Keep that in mind when you're drafting your wide receivers. There's little doubt about the Bears defense or Devin Hester's return ability. So drafting a Bears defense to compliment Devin Hester as a wide receiver will not only double your points, but double your football ego amongst friends. Here are some more defense/WR combination. (See Philadelphia/DeSean Jackson, Minnesota/Bernard Berrian or Percy Harvin, New York Jets/Leon Washington).

Other than that I like to watch the match-ups week to week to see who's drawing a favorable match-up. Arizona squares off against Kansas City, I'm going to pick up a Cardinals defense that was fifth in the league in defensive TDs with 5. See where I'm going here?

Top 5 Fantasy Defenses:

1. Baltimore Ravens
   
2. Pittsburgh Steelers
   
3. New York Giants
4. Philadelphia Eagles
5. Minnesota Vikings