Week 16 IDP Rankings- LB: Start Pat Angerer & Nick Barnett

Here we are folks, Week 16!

For many of you this is Championship week and if you have made it this far, Congrats!

This week make sure to get Pat Angerer back in your lineups. He was slwoing down recently and even missed a full game a couple weeks ago with a knee injury. However, he came back solid against Baltimore and then very strong last week against Tennessee. This week he plays a Houston team that will run, run, run. Angerer should approach double digit tackles.

I also would make sure to start Nick Barnett. He is currently ranked 15th in our Week 16 LB Rankings and he is facing a run-first Denver team and Denver could actually be up early in this one and protecting a lead. I expect Barnett to accumulate a bunch of tackles against the RBs and Tim Tebow.

LB RankPlayer NameVsComments 1D'Qwell JacksonBALHe will see a lot of Ray Rice as Rice tries to top 200 yards again 2London FletcherMIN 3Patrick WillisSEAI like the matchup for him if he can get back on the field this week 4Colin McCarthyJAXSlumping the past couple of weeks but should see lots of MJD and get lots of tackles this week 5Derrick JohnsonOAK 6James LaurinaitisPIT 7D.J. WilliamsBUF 8Pat AngererHOUCame back in full force last week and will see a whole lot of Foster and Tate here 9Ray LewisCLE 10Paul PoslusznyTEN 11Jerod MayoMIASomehow, someway Reggie Bush has stepped up his game. Mayo may actually be needed to slow him down here. I cannot believe I am saying this 12David HawthorneSF 13Curtis LoftonNO 14Navorro BowmanSEA 15Nick BarnettDENBarnett should approach 10 tackles as he tries to slow the running game and spy Tebow 16James AndersonTBUnheralded and quite awesome. More of the norm for Anderson 17Karlos DansbyNE 18Stephen TullochSDWith how well he is playing, Detroit better re-sign him as they have currently toyed with 19Daryl WashingtonCIN 20Brian CushingIND 21Chad GreenwayWAS20 or so carries of Roy Helu should mean 8-10 stops for Greenway 22Lance BriggsGB 23Sean WeatherspoonNO 24Jamar ChaneyDAL 25James HarrisonSTLComing off his suspension to face a poor QB and an even wore OL. This could easily be a mutli-sack game for him 26Brian UrlacherGB 27Von MillerBUFAnother candidate for the multi-sack game 28Lawrence TimmonsSTL 29Demarcus WarePHI 30Rolando McClainKCThe more KC runs the ball and throws over the middle, the more McClain will continue to pad his tackle numbers 31D.J. SmithCHI 32Sean LeePHI 33Rey MaualugaARI 34Jonathan VilmaATL 35David HarrisNYGHe hasn't been exceptional but he has been solid. More of the same this week 36Kelvin SheppardDEN 37Kevin BurnettNE 38Perry RileyMIN 39Donald ButlerDET 40Daryl SmithTEN 41Thomas HowardARIQuietly having a very respectable year 42Mason FosterCAR 43E.J. HendersonWAS 44DeAndre LevySD 45Michael BoleyNYJBest bet amongst the Giants LBs for tackles as the Jets pound the rock and work the middle of the field 46Clay MatthewsCHI 47Brian OrakpoMIN 48Jordan SennTBHas been pretty good for double digit points since taking over the WLB job 49Takeo SpikesDET 50Paris LenonCIN 51Leroy HillSF 52Wesley WoodyardBUF 53Aldon SmithSEAHe has become a fierce pass rusher and will give the Seahawks and their backup OTs fits 54Larry GrantSEAJumps into the top-25 if he plays over Willis this week 55Desmond BishopCHIJumps into the top-15 if he can play this week