Joey Slye or Nick Folk: Who Should You Start?

Slye's better game script cancels Folk's cleaner accuracy sheet

Neither kicker separates himself enough to call this anything but a real coin flip. Slye's Titans are favored and projected for the higher team total, which usually means more red-zone snaps and drive volume even though Tennessee stalls short of the end zone less often than Atlanta does — a plus for a kicker who needs possessions, not touchdowns, to rack up attempts. Folk counters with a much cleaner accuracy season and playing as a slight underdog, which can actually pad his attempt count if Atlanta's offense bogs down in Pittsburgh territory. The tiny gaps in points and attempts are noise here; whichever way you lean, you're not reaching for a fringe option.

What flips it: A material change in either team's spread or a red-zone role change would tip this toward the team getting more likely scoring trips.

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Signal breakdown

• 7.6 vs 7.8 projected PPR pointsNick Folk +
• Rank 20 vs 21Joey Slye +
• 1.9 vs 2.0 projected attemptsNick Folk +
• 0.9 vs 1.2 red-zone stalls per gameNick Folk +
• Kicking weathereven
• Implied 21.3 vs 19.8 team pointsJoey Slye +
• No injury designationseven

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