Joey Slye or Tyler Bass: Who Should You Start?

Slye vs. Bass: Two Bench Kickers Who Cancel Each Other Out

Neither of these two deserves a lineup spot this week, and the numbers explain why it's genuinely a coin flip between them. Slye gets a sliver more volume with Tennessee projected for a touch more attempts, but Bass benefits from a Buffalo offense that stalls in the red zone more often — exactly the trait that turns drives into kicks instead of touchdowns. Buffalo's higher implied total also means more scoring possessions overall, offsetting the fact that some of those end in the end zone rather than a field goal. The two signals pull in opposite directions hard enough that they wash out, leaving this as a bench-both situation where the tiebreaker barely matters.

What flips it: A late red-zone efficiency shift for either offense, or a weather change in Buffalo's forecast, would be enough to separate them.

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Signal breakdown

• 7.6 vs 7.5 projected PPR pointsJoey Slye +
• Rank 20 vs 20Tyler Bass +
• 1.9 vs 1.8 projected attemptsJoey Slye +
• 0.9 vs 1.3 red-zone stalls per gameTyler Bass +
• Kicking weathereven
• Implied 21.3 vs 23.5 team pointsTyler Bass +
• No injury designationseven

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