Green Bay Packers Week 6 Fantasy profile
By Kenn Korb
K – Mason Crosby
Week 5 Statistics: 2/2 PATs, 3 FGs (44, 33, 25); 12.00 fantasy points
With few things making much sense in terms of what is working (and what isn’t) for this team in 2016, there’s at least one place Packers fans can still turn to for a sense of positive normalcy; that’s Crosby.
As usual, when Crosby is called upon, he simply does his job without fail. He’s made all 7 of his field goal attempts this year, and hasn’t missed (including playoffs) since Week 15 of last season. Including playoffs, since Week 16 of 2012 (if you’ll remember, that was the year he went 21/33 in the regular season, owing to a stretch from Weeks 5-14 where he went 12/24), he has made 103 of his 117 field goal attempts.
Also impressive: since the rule change to extra points to start 2015, he has made all 52 of his attempts (including playoffs) on the now-33 yard kicks.
To me, nobody feels more automatic than Crosby right now, and as long as he’s given the chance to score he will make it happen.
In this game, the offense should have a great opportunity to move the ball with consistency; if they do, he’ll come through for them. I wouldn’t expect all the kinks to be worked out yet — especially with the running game suffering from injury issues — so a couple field goal tries even on an overall good offensive day.
Add that to some extra point kicks on the drives that do finish with TDs, and you get a third straight 10+ fantasy scoring performance for Green Bay’s stalwart kicker.