Drew Lock Week 6 Outlook - Commanders at Giants

By Mike Tagliere (FantasyPros), Thu, Oct 15th 2020, 10:01am EDT

Through one and a quarter games, Rypien has averaged 7.4 yards per attempt, which is more than both Drew Lock and Jeff Driskel can say. Granted, one of his games was against the Jets, but he's still got to take advantage of the good matchups. Lock did return to a limited practice this week last week, so we probably have to assume he plays this week. There are so many questions surrounding this team, but the scheme hasn't really changed no matter who's under center in Pat Shurmur's offense. The Patriots went from a team you didn't want to play anyone against, to one who you could actually target. They allowed just 5.99 yards per attempt in 2019, to one who's allowed 8.20 yards per attempt in 2020 and are now going to be without their top cornerback Stephon Gilmore who is now on the COVID list. Teams haven't thrown a whole lot against them though, as the 29.8 attempts per game suggests. As far as run to pass ratio, they have faced a pass play on 54.6 percent of plays (11th-lowest) while the Broncos have passed on 61.3 percent of their plays (10th-most), so something has to give. Gamescript should determine that and this game should be close throughout. The Broncos have thrown the ball just 54 percent of the time in neutral gamescripts (within three points either way), so I'd guess we see somewhere in the range of 30-35 pass attempts, which isn't enough to start either of these quarterbacks confidently.