Best Fantasy Football D/ST Streaming Options for Week 14: Saints, Titans, Buccaneers, Jaguars

That’s it. In most fantasy football leagues, Week 14 is the final week of the regular season. This means Week 14’s streaming defense options will make or break entire fantasy seasons. Especially with six teams on byes, more managers than usual will be paying attention to waivers for the top streaming options.

But before we dive into this week’s picks, let’s take a look back at our results from Week 13. Even without delving into them, the Cowboys were the top pick of the week, dropping 18 points to and Co. The Commanders came through also through with a solid eight-point result. Unfortunately, my other two picks weren’t as successful as the Colts (three points) and Giants (zero points) couldn’t take advantage of theoretically favorable matchups. Hopefully we can get back on our feet this week with everything at stake. Let’s get started!

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Week 14 Fantasy Football Defense Streaming Options

New Orleans Saints (25.9% on roster) @ New York Giants

It worked perfectly last week, so let’s go right back to where we started and take a look at the Giants’ offense. It is currently unclear who the Giants will have as center: Tommy DeVito or Drew Lock. What’s clear is that it really doesn’t matter.

With six sacks in his first start of the season on Thanksgiving, Lock now has an absurd sack rate of 14.6% for the season. But DeVito isn’t far behind with a still-horrible sack rate of 11.4%. This isn’t entirely due to any of these QBs, as the Giants’ O-line leads the league with a pressure rate allowed at a massive 38%. But we don’t care who’s to blame, and nothing leads to fantasy points like sacks. Meanwhile, Lock and DeVito also rank 47th and 40th in EPA per play out of 49 QBs, with at least 40 plays recorded this season. The Giants’ offense scores the fewest points per game overall of any team in the league.

The Saints defense isn’t great. In fact, they are well below average. They look okay in terms of scoring, ranking 16th in EPA per game allowed and 19th in points per game. But they give up yards in groups, having the third-most yards per game and the second-most yards per game of any team in the league. But that just doesn’t matter in a match this good. Even if they give up 400 yards on the road, the Saints defense should get enough sacks (and maybe a turnover or two) to have a solid showing.

Tennessee Titans (9.8% on roster) vs. Jacksonville Jaguars

will almost certainly be missing from the concussion protocol this week, so we’re back to the show for the Jaguars. Among QBs with at least 100 games played this season, Jones ranks third-worst in EPA per game and second-worst in save percentage. In addition to general incompetence, he also impresses in the areas that generate defensive fantasy scoring: his sack rate is near average, but his turnover worth play rate is the third-worst among qualified QBs.

For their part, the Titans are really a solid defense. They rank 14th in EPA per plays allowed and eighth in success rate. Despite being paired with a significantly below-average offensive unit, they rank second in the league with just 291 yards allowed per game. At home against Mac Jones, they are well-positioned to produce the kind of performance that could secure them a spot in the fantasy football playoffs.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers (43.6% on roster) vs. Las Vegas Raiders

This is risky because the Buccaneers defense is truly terrible. In Week 13, they gave up 23 points and managed just two fantasy points against the woeful Panthers (to be fair, things have been looking a lot better lately). But we just can’t ignore their matchup with the Raiders in this battle of two vaguely pirate-themed teams.

This season, the Raiders’ offense ranks last in EPA per game. They rank sixth-worst in points per game and eighth-worst in yards per game. It’s true that Aidan O’Connell, who will start this week, was marginally better than . He also doesn’t have the worst numbers in terms of sack rate (where he actually exceeds the league average) and turnover-worthy play rate (he’s still 12th worst out of 42 qualified QBs). But even though he largely avoids negative plays, he is one of only 14 QBs to average negative EPA per play on over 100 plays in 2024.

If you can get either of the two teams listed above (or have access to a team with a deeper roster like the Eagles or Steelers in a good matchup), I would recommend playing against them against Tampa Bay. But in a week with limited options, the Buccaneers should be able to come through.

Jacksonville Jaguars (6.0% on roster) @ Tennessee Titans

We’re not done with the Florida-based teams’ poor defenses, as I’ll also cover the other side of what’s expected to be an ugly AFC South matchup. Like the Buccaneers, let’s start with the bad. The Jaguars lead the league by a wide margin in EPA per plays allowed and rank first in yards per game and second in points per game. They are probably the worst defense in the league in a year that featured some truly atrocious defensive plays.

However, the Jaguars get the dream matchup for fantasy defenses this week: . The second-year QB is an absolute defensive fantasy points machine. He leads qualified QBs with a sack rate of 13.4% and also has a very poor turnover worth play rate of 3.7%. If we look at EPA per play, he is the sixth-worst among 100-play QBs, fourth-worst among 200-play QBs, and absolutely dead last among the 28 300-play QBs.

Last week I pointed out that the defense against the Titans with Levis under center averaged a whopping 14.6 fantasy points per game. The Commanders lowered that average slightly with just eight points, but that’s still a more than respectable performance. That’s what we hope from the Jaguars this week.

Ted Chmyz is a fantasy football contributor for FantasyPros.com. Find him on Twitter @Tchmyz for more fantasy content or to ask questions.