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Week 16 kickers

Ryan Succop looks like possible waiver wire add for next week

Taking an early look at the kickers for Week 16, I would say the best available waiver wire kicker in a lot of leagues would be Ryan Succop. He’s on a good, contending team, and the matchup couldn’t be better – against a lesser team transitioning to a new coach.

Jacksonville has been remarkably bad this year, allowing a league-high 139 kicking points. If each week you had started the kicking going against the Jaguars, right now you would be 3 field goals and 15 points ahead of Justin Tucker.

The Jaguars have the right blend of being bad and also having enough talent on defense to ensure plenty of field goal attempts. They’ve allowed 4 more field goals than anyone else (and 3 more than any other team has scored).

In the earlier meeting, Succop scored a season-high 12 points against them.

The offense-defense numbers, meanwhile, suggest three teams that probably will wind up in the playoffs should rank in the bottom-10 in kicking points – Steelers, Giants, Dolphins.

On the chart below, the extra point and field goal numbers represent the totals for each team’s offense relative to the defense it will see in Week 16.

KICKER AVERAGES FOR WEEK 16
TeamXPFGPoints
Atlanta78548.89
Oakland63618.79
Washington (MNF)58588.59
Philadelphia44648.43
Tennessee65568.32
New England76477.75
Houston47567.68
New Orleans76467.64
Tampa Bay63507.61
Baltimore50547.57
Seattle61507.54
Green Bay60507.50
Kansas City50537.46
Dallas67467.32
Detroit46537.32
San Diego81417.29
Indianapolis69457.29
Denver54497.18
Cincinnati56487.14
Minnesota53487.04
Los Angeles67426.89
Cleveland54466.86
Carolina (MNF)59406.63
Jacksonville56436.61
Buffalo62406.50
• Miami64396.46
Chicago62356.19
NY Jets42436.11
• NY Giants58376.04
• Pittsburgh56365.86
San Francisco65315.64
Arizona56335.54

—Ian Allan

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