Sit Ryan Fitzgerald in Week 10 if you have a real alternative — 4 projected points lands 3.5 under the K starter line.
- Projection
- 4 pts
- K rank
- #23
- Matchup
- at NO
Ryan Fitzgerald's fantasy role in Week 10
Ryan Fitzgerald goes into Week 10 of the 2026 season as a deep-league K flyer for the CAR. He is rostered in 7% of leagues and actually started in 5% of them, and we rank him K23 on our own weekly board at 4 projected points.
Interest is cooling — roster rates slipped roughly 1% in the last week, so he is getting cheaper to acquire if you believe in the role.
No injury designation to work around right now, which keeps his projection honest.
Week 10 matchup breakdown
The matchup: at NO. Our Pepper Meter heat rating for this spot is 1 out of 5, which is how we grade the combination of role, projection and opponent difficulty.
Against a typical starting K baseline of 7.5 points, his 4-point projection is 3.5 points short. That gap is the whole start/sit argument in one number.
How to play it
Sit Ryan Fitzgerald in Week 10 if you have a real alternative — 4 projected points lands 3.5 under the K starter line.
If you are deciding between him and another K, compare projections first, then lean on the Pepper Meter heat rating as the tiebreaker.
Sally's take
Peppers & Picks ranks Ryan Fitzgerald (CAR K), our K23 this week for Week 10 of the 2026 NFL season at NO, projecting 4.0 projected points with a mild Pepper Meter rating. Sally wants fireworks, and 3.5 points below a typical starter isn't fireworks. Nothing in the projection defends him — 47% below positional par is a bench line for me. The at NO draw matters here — road snaps against NO shape how often he's asked to do something. Mild on the Pepper Meter is generous, honestly.
Tina's take
Peppers & Picks ranks Ryan Fitzgerald (CAR K), our K23 this week for Week 10 of the 2026 NFL season at NO, projecting 4.0 projected points with a mild Pepper Meter rating. Tina calls it a floor problem: 3.5 points under the starter line is a lot of risk for a lineup spot. 5% of managers already start him, and the depth-chart role behind that number looks stable. The projection sits about 47% under what a startable K returns, so I honestly can't pretend the price tag matches the output. The Pepper Meter cools him to Mild, and that reading is doing its job.