Be sure to check back often; these rankings will be updated frequently up until kickoff. Week 5 Fantasy Football Rankings: Kickers Rankings can be sorted by expert. SK = Sean Koerner; CR = Chris Raybon; MF = Matthew Freedman. Sean Koerner is The Action Network’s Director of Predictive Analytics and has been the No. 1 in-season FantasyPros ranker for three straight seasons. Chris Raybon is a Senior Editor at The Action Network and a co-host of “I’ll Take That Bet” on ESPN+. He has watched every play of every NFL game since 2010. Matthew Freedman is the Editor-in-Chief of FantasyLabs and finished sixth overall in last year’s FantasyPros competition. PPR: Flex | QB | RB | WR | TE | D/ST | K Standard: Flex | QB | RB | WR | TE | D/ST | K Half-Point PPR: Flex | QB | RB | WR | TE | D/ST | K<doc-sep>Week 4 saw several high scoring games for offenses around the league. When offenses score more points, kickers get more swings of the leg, which means they are scoring us more points. While some of the usual suspects were at the top of the charts, we some saw new faces like Matt McCrane and Ka'imi Fairbairn. Heading into Week 5, there are a number of high profile matchups that could lead to a lot of scoring. However, there aren't a ton of stalemate defensive matchups that should cause kickers to have an excess of field goal opportunities. It will be interesting to see how this week's matchups go. Chandler Catanzaro and Cody Parkey are on byes this week, and they have developed into consistent fantasy options in the past few weeks. While waivers might not be flush with big points this week, there are still some solid values that can be found. All you early birds can get a full-season NFL Premium Pass. Exclusive access to our preseason Draft Kit, rankings and projections, 15 in-season lineup tools and over 150 days of Premium DFS tools and cheat sheets. Sign Up Now! Week 5 Kickers To Start & Stream: Tiers & Rankings Tier 1 NFL Kickers 1. Ryan Succop (TEN) @ BUF 2. Caleb Sturgis (LAC) @ OAK 3. Stephen Gostkowski (NE) vs IND 4. Cairo Santos (LAR) @ SEA 5. Adam Vinatieri (IND) @ NE The Buffalo Bills defense continues to struggle, and the Tennessee Titans are on the upswing as Marcus Mariota gets healthier. Even on the road, Succop is a top option this week. Sturgis and the Los Angeles Chargers play the Oakland Raiders that just gave up 42 points to the Cleveland Browns. Sturgis is a great option this week, as the Phillip Rivers-led offense should bounce back this week. Gostkowski and the New England Patriots flexed their muscles in a beatdown on Sunday. They have dominated the Indianapolis Colts in the past, and that isn't likely to change on Thursday night. Ficken and the Los Angeles Rams lit up the scoreboard Thursday night. Against a weak Seattle Seahawks defense, that should continue. Vinatieri continues to be a consistent option in real and fantasy football. Tier 2 NFL Kickers 6. Ka'imi Fairbairn (HOU) vs DAL 7. Wil Lutz (NO) vs WAS 8. Dan Bailey (MIN) @ PHI 9. Matt Bryant (ATL) @ PIT 10. Mason Crosby (GB) @ DET Fairbairn finished fourth this past week in scoring, and he and the Houston Texans draw the struggling Dallas Cowboys defense. Quarterback Deshaun Watson has improved, and he should keep getting better. Lutz and the New Orleans Saints continue to be a high-powered offense. The Washington Redskins have been had this season, and that should continue this week. Bailey and the Minnesota Vikings are a great offense when they're rolling. Against a struggling Philadelphia Eagles team, they should keep firing. Bryant and the Atlanta Falcons have started regaining their mojo. A matchup against an underachieving Pittsburgh Steelers team is exactly what they need. Crosby and the Green Bay Packers have struggled in the red zone this season. That keeps the kicker in great play territory. Tier 3 NFL Kickers 11. Brandon McManus (DEN) @ NYJ 12. Justin Tucker (BAL) @ CLE 13. Dustin Hopkins (WAS) @ NO 14. Randy Bullock (CIN) vs MIA 15. Chris Boswell (PIT) vs ATL McManus and the Denver Broncos have been in close games all season. Against a tough New York Jets team, McManus should continue to be an active player for them. Tucker has long been a top kicking option. On the road in Cleveland, he has value, but he could slip some this week. Hopkins and the Redskins have been up and down this season. A soft Saints defense gives him sneaky value this week. Randy Bullock and the Cincinnati Bengals have been one for the better offenses in the NFL this season. They draw a reeling Miami Dolphins team that was overachieving, and they should help Bullock's value this week. Boswell has fallen far from the consistent top-10 option that he was last season. He still has value in the right matchup, and the Atlanta Falcons are that type of matchup. Kickers to Avoid Sebastian Janikowski and the Seattle Seahawks have a tough matchup this week against the Los Angeles Rams. While Russell Wilson typically gets better over the course of the season, this isn't a week for that. Janikowski should be left alone this week. At home, against the bad New Orleans Saints defense, Aldrick Rosas and the New York Giants only managed 18 points. The Carolina Panthers are a much better defense, so bad things are in the future for the Giants offense this week. Greg Joseph and the Cleveland Browns put up 42 points last week against the Raiders. However, this week, they have a much more difficult matchup. The Baltimore Ravens slowed down the Steelers offense last week, and they should do the same to the Baker Mayfield-led Browns. More Weekly Lineup Prep<doc-sep>
The Telegraph Two of the surprise packages of this clay-court season have been British – initially Dan Evans, who made a deep run in Monte Carlo, and more lately Cameron Norrie, who played his second final in three weeks on Sunday. Unfortunately, Norrie wasn’t able to land a maiden ATP title in Lyon. But then he was up against Stefanos Tsitsipas, who has been the dominant force of 2021 outside the slams, and now stands at No 1 in the table of most rankings points gained since January 1. Nevertheless, it had been a hugely creditable effort for Norrie to go this far, especially when you consider that he took out top seed Dominic Thiem on Thursday, and then trounced big-hitting Russian Karen Khachanov in Saturday’s semi-final, losing only two games in the process. Norrie has come to clay late in his career, but it feels like this is developing into his favourite surface. He has one of the heaviest left-handed forehands in the game, loaded with top-spin, and uses it like a miniature version of Rafael Nadal. The result has been a tally of 14 wins and only four losses since he began his European clay-court swing in Barcelona. So while the French Open, which starts next Sunday, has traditionally been a graveyard of British hopes, there are reasons to hope that this year’s event could deliver some more positive results. Norrie’s previous final in Estoril had been a nervewracking affair which he eventually lost on a deciding-set tie-break to the more experienced Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas. Sunday was more straightforward for Tsitsipas, who needed only 69 minutes to hammer home a 6-3, 6-3 victory. It was Tsitsipas’ second title of the clay-court sequence, after he won Monte Carlo in mid-April, taking out Evans in the semi-final along the way. He has become a serious contender to upset the establishment – specifically Nadal and Novak Djokovic – at Roland Garros over the next few weeks. “I felt in good shape from the beginning of the tournament,” said Tsitsipas afterwards. “I am proud of today’s match, I knew it would be a difficult one against Cameron, who has been showing great tennis this week. He has been winning against good players and showing what the left hand can do on clay. “It was not an easy match today. I had to handle the nerves and I am proud of my performance and the way I stayed focused towards my goal.” On this year’s results, meanwhile, both Evans and Norrie stand among the world’s 20 most successful men. Evans is at No 16 and Norrie No 14. The next challenge for them both is to convert that ATP Tour form into a deep run at a major.