Covering the full Week 6 slate — 14 games, Bengals, Lions, Dolphins and Vikings on bye
28 teams play. The week opens with Seattle at Denver on Thursday night, so Seahawks and Broncos lineups lock first. Sunday starts early with the Texans and Jaguars at Wembley — a morning kickoff in the U.S., so set those lineups before you sleep in — then 11 more games, ending with Cowboys-Packers on Sunday night, and Washington at San Francisco on Monday night. These calls went up after Wednesday's first practice report. Thursday's and Friday's reports can still move a Monitor, so check those before kickoff.
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Players marked NO CALL are starting this week but had nothing worth arguing about, so they carry no verdict and are not graded on the Check Sheet.
Check These Before Kickoff
Genuine game-time decisions. Do not leave one of these in your lineup without confirming inactives 90 minutes before kick.
Week 6 · The Slate
How To Read This
The point of a Simple Sheet is that it ends an argument instead of starting one. Every player gets a verdict and a single sentence saying why. If the reason doesn't persuade you, override it — you know your roster better than any sheet does.
- Start means he should finish inside the top 12 at QB, 30 at RB, 30 at WR or 12 at TE — every starting spot in a standard 12-team full-PPR league (1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 Flex), with the flex split evenly between running backs and receivers. It is not a promise he will score.
- Monitor means the call is not mine to make yet — a practice report or an inactive list decides it.
- Sit means there is a better option on a normal bench. It is not a claim the player is bad.
- Week 6 keeps the method, and Week 5 shows why it is hard to beat. Week 5 went 17 of 36 on Must Starts, the best week yet, and the consensus top 36 also went 17, so the model kept pace rather than pulling ahead. The Sits went 5 of 10. Adding Week 5 to the backtest (now 19 weeks) did not change which ranking wins, and three new tests built on the point spread did not beat it, so this week's 36 Must Starts again come straight from the model, with Lamar Jackson moved to Monitor and Patrick Mahomes taking his slot. Seven of the ten Sits are in the middle of the plausible range. The three running-back Sits are the weakest-supported calls on the sheet: in that part of the range, backs finish outside the top 30 only about a third of the time. Every Week 5 call and its miss explained is on the Check Sheet.