Cleveland @ Carolina
Team Totals: Panthers 22, Browns 19.5
Browns-Panthers projects as a fantasy-unfriendly contest, tied with 49ers-Bears for Week 1’s lowest-totaled game. Cleveland’s 11-game bridge to Deshaun Watson, Jacoby Brissett has long struggled with delivery quickness and tends to create pressure for himself, problematic against Carolina’s imposing defensive front consisting of explosive EDGEs Brian Burns and Yetur Gross-Matos with top-10 pick Derrick Brown and high-motor veteran Matt Ioannidis inside. Under returning DC Phil Snow, last year’s Panthers finished No. 3 in blitz percentage (33.7%) and No. 7 in pressure rate (26.1%). Carolina’s D/ST is playable in Week 1. … Although he will lose sporadic work to Kareem Hunt and perhaps a sprinkling to D’Ernest Johnson, Nick Chubb figures to operate as the focal point of the Browns’ Week 1 offense. Cleveland-Carolina profiles as a largely neutral-script affair, which would allow HC Kevin Stefanski’s club to stay game-plan committed, feeding Chubb upwards of 20 touches and Hunt in the double digits.
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