Fantasy Football Week 9 Kicker Rankings: Is Greg Zuerlein Back?

Getty Greg Zuerlein #2 of the Dallas Cowboys.

Welcome to our Fantasy Football Kicker Rankings for Week 9 of the 2020 NFL regular season. This week our lineups are stripped of Randy Bullock, the position’s highest total point-getter on the season. Could Greg Zuerlein be a viable fill-in option for Bullock owners? Plus, is the Money Badger a weekly play with the backing of the Chargers’ sudden high-octane offense? Let’s take a look.

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Kicker Outlook Week 9

As you can tell by his ranking, we are not sold on Greg Zuerlein‘s (K23) reemergence as a viable fantasy option. A former must-start during his Rams days, Zuerlein racked up 13 points on Sunday night football, hitting on three kicks from 40-plus yards out. However, operating in a Cowboys offense so malnourished with talent at the quarterback position, it’s impossible to trust that the unit will give Zuerlein consistent opportunities to produce. Excluding his Week 8 performance, Zuerlein has scored double-digits just twice this year. He’s also been held to 5.0 points or fewer on four occasions. To make matters worse, the Cowboys take on a Steelers team that has not allowed a single kicker all season to eclipse 8.0 points, while holding four of their opponents to 4.0 points or fewer.

Over the past two weeks, Michael Badgley (K3) has averaged 12.0 ppg, third-most amongst kickers league-wide. The Chargers placekicker has now gone two consecutive games hitting on at least two kicks from 30-plus yards out, totaling five such kicks over that span. The Raiders are far from the most welcoming matchup at the position, allowing just three performances of 9.0-plus points to opposing kickers this season. With that said, they’ve allowed seven kicks between the range of 30-39 yards (3rd-most in NFL). Whereas the combination of Ben DiNucci and Andy Dalton at QB for the Cowboys hurt Greg Zuerlein’s stock, the stellar play of Justin Herbert for the Bolts will continue to put Badgley in plus situations to succeed.

Week 9 Fantasy Rankings: Kicker

1. Rankings
2. [QBs | RBs | WRs | TEs | DEF | Ks]
3. Start-Sit
4. [QBs | RBs | WRs | TEs | DEF | Ks]

• Matchup: Great l Avg l Tough

1. – NOTABLE K BYE WEEKS: Randy Bullock (CIN), Cody Parkey (CLE), Jake Elliott (PHI), Sam Sloman (LAR)

2. #	Kicker TEAM	Opp.
   1	Younghoe Koo ATL	vs. DEN
   2	Wil Lutz NO	@ TB
   3	Michael Badgley LAC	vs. LV
   4	Harrison Butker KC	vs. CAR
   5	Justin Tucker BAL	@ IND
   6	Daniel Carlson LV	@ LAC
   7	Ka’imi Fairbairn HOU	@ JAC
   8	Matt Prater DET	@ MIN
   9	Zane Gonzalez ARI	vs. MIA
   10	Nick Folk NE	@ NYJ
   11	Brandon McManus DEN	@ ATL
   12	Ryan Succop TB	vs. NO
   13	Josh Lambo JAC	vs. HOU
   14	Graham Gano NYG	@ WAS
   15	Dustin Hopkins WAS	vs. NYG
   16	Mason Crosby GB	@ SF
   17	Tyler Bass BUF	vs. SEA
   18	Chris Boswell PIT	@ DAL
   19	Stephen Gostkowski TEN	vs. CHI
   20	Jason Sanders MIA	@ ARI
   21	Sergio Castillo NYJ	vs. NE
   22	Jason Myers SEA	@ BUF
   23	Greg Zuerlein DAL	vs. PIT
   24	Cairo Santos CHI	@ TEN
   25	Joey Slye CAR	@ KC
   26	Rodrigo Blankenship IND	vs. BAL
   27	Robbie Gould SF	vs. GB
   28	Dan Bailey MIN	vs. DET
   29	Sam Ficken NYJ INJ	vs. NE

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