Footballguys has published Rent-a-Kicker: Week 6, a matchup-first guide built for fantasy managers trying to squeeze useful points out of a position that changes fast and usually changes badly. The piece leans into the reality that kicker scoring is the least predictable part of fantasy football, then turns that chaos into a weekly waiver-wire exercise.
That matters now because most fantasy teams carry only one kicker, and the options on waivers are usually plentiful enough to make the choice feel temporary rather than permanent. The ranking approach is simple: ignore the name on the jersey, sort the week by the quality of the situation, and take the leg with the cleanest path to points. In other words, Week 6 Kicker Rankings are less about talent than about which offense is most likely to keep giving its kicker chances.
The logic is made clearer by the examples used to explain it. Mevis was the top pick, but a missed 50-yarder on the Rams' first possession and a blocked 48-yarder on the last left him with four points and tied for 24th among kickers. That is the point of the format: a kicker can look like the best option before the game and still finish buried by one bad sequence. Bass offers the opposite kind of reminder. In Week 5, he tied for 4th after missing an extra point, scoring three of his eleven points on the game-winning kick in overtime. The production was useful, but it was also fragile, which is exactly why weekly streaming exists.
Ryland fit the same idea from another angle. The Cardinals were a 5.5-point underdog, the game projected as a shootout in a dome, and the Cardinals still trailed by 17 at halftime. That is the kind of mismatch the rankings are built to read: not who the kicker is, but whether the game script gives him enough volume to matter. Footballguys is using the same framework to help fantasy GMs find perfectly startable production off the waiver wire, and for Week 6, that means treating the kicker spot as a weekly decision instead of a set-and-forget position.
There is no mystery about the next move. Fantasy managers looking at Week 6 should use the matchup rankings, not reputation, and wait for the safest combination of opportunity and game environment. The full list may be the missing piece, but the message is already clear: at kicker, the smartest play is usually the one that looks boring before kickoff and productive after it.
