DL Streaming 101: Week 11
Professor IDP looks at the best DE and DT streaming options in your IDP fantasy football leagues for Week 11 in a new (expanded) format to help you in your playoff push.
Welcome to the Week 11 edition of DL Streaming 101!
As we enter the playoff push and home stretch of the season, I’m excited to announce a few updates to the format of this article to help you be best prepared to stream your way to success for the rest of 2025.
The list at the end of this article will now include 30 names each week—up from 20—to give you more roster flexibility (be sure to use the arrows in the upper right corner of the chart to toggle between pages)
The list also now contains availability in MyFantasyLeague and Sleeper leagues, and will include some players barely over 50% availability, all the way up to guys who are free in greater than 98% of IDP leagues
The deep dive feature section has been reduced from six players to four, since you are probably getting sick of hearing me gush about some of the same guys over and over again
Before getting into that excitement, let’s take a quick look back at Week 10 and the season to date. After a bit of a dip in Week 9, the Week 10 average bounced back to 10.36 Big 3 points per game, thanks in part to 8 of 19 players recording at least a half sack. Two players boomed in Week 10 with Travis Jones and Jalon Walker each breaking the 20-point mark and finishing among the top 9 DL for the week.
Overall, streaming has now had a 43.1% success rate (streamers scoring over 10 pts) with 12.1% boom games (over 20 pts), and only 4.2% who would have left you with a 0 for the week (excluding injuries and ejections). I also tier options each week, and those tiers are holding strong with Ideal plays averaging 14.6, Solid averaging 10.0, and Solid (deeper) is at 8.3 points per game.
The full sorted list of streamers (with underlying data) is presented below, but one quick word of caution. This is the time of year when injuries can pile up. From players with lingering injuries from the previous week to guys getting dinged in practice, be sure to check the injury status of a player before you snag them, and please play according to your risk tolerance.
Featured DL Streamers
Khalil Mack, DE, LAC (🎓🎓🎓🎓)
Count me among those who lost the confidence to start Chargers edge Khalil Mack after his injury, followed by the trade for Odafe Oweh.
While Oweh has been a great pass rusher for Los Angeles, generating 13 pressures and 4 sacks since Week 6, he has come off the bench each of the past three weeks with a downward snap share trajectory (55%, 49%, 40%) while Mack’s snap shares have been steadily increasing over the same period (57%, 66%, 73%).
I am now starting Mack with some confidence this week (in one league over Rashan Gary) as the Chargers take on the Jaguars in Week 11. Mack is likely to draw Walker Little, who played one of his worst games of the season in Week 10 against Danielle Hunter. Hunter and his fellow Texans edge rushers accumulated over 80 fantasy points in that game against the Jaguars, and Mack (who has 10 pressures in his last two games) looks primed to pick up where he left off.
Donovan Ezeiruaku, DE, DAL (🎓🎓🎓)
Abdul Carter of the New York Giants is leading rookie edge rushers in pressures with 33 (averaging roughly one pressure per nine pass rush snaps). Fellow rookie Donovan Ezeiruaku of the NFC East rival Dallas Cowboys is second in the group with 22 (one per eight pass rush snaps), but leads all rookies in PFF pass rush grade at 75.7. While Carter is hard to find on waivers, Ezeiruaku is rostered at one-third of Carter’s share, making him an impressive and accessible DE play in Week 11.
After concerning usage Weeks 1-8 (a high snap share of 57%), Ezeiruaku played 76% of Cowboys snaps prior to their Week 10 bye. He made the most of his first opportunity to start by generating a career-high five QB pressures (one sack) and posting a solid 71.3 PFF pass rush grade.
The Cowboys take on the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 11. The Raiders are the 9th-best fantasy matchup for edges in 2025, allowing an average of 34.01 points to the position per game, but have allowed 46.67 per game over their last two. Ezeiruaku should match up heavily against Stone Forsythe, who is currently the 59th out of 77 tackles in pass blocking grade. Should the Raiders run the ball with Aston Jeanty, Forsythe ranks 59th in run blocking, whereas Ezeiruaku is a competent run defender who grades out at 61.4 and is second among rookie edges in tackles.
Ruke Orhorhoro, DT, ATL (🎓🎓🎓)
While I will be a lifetime member of the David Onyemata fan club, I opted to suggest his teammate, Ruke Orhorhoro as a streaming option in Week 11. While Orhorhoro has an abysmal PFF grade overall (39.8), the Falcons seem to be committed to seeing what they have in the second-round pick from 2024.
Given that opportunity trumps talent in the game of DL streaming, Orhorhoro warrants some consideration this week for three reasons:
His 81% snap share in Week 10 was the highest among all Falcons DL.
Panthers QB Bryce Young has been responsible for 18% of all pressures faced this season (the 10th highest rate in the NFL).
The Panthers are allowing 33.2 fantasy points per game to opposing defensive tackles over their past four games (5th highest in the NFL).
Arik Armstead, DT, JAC (🎓🎓)
I am admittedly plugging my nose a bit when playing Orhorhoro, hoping that snaps equal floor, but I would be excited to start Jaguars big man Arik Armstead as a high ceiling streaming play. Armstead is a player I have been streaming periodically since 2022, and was one of the six players in the ring of honor on my old site for having a massive game as a streamer call.
Nostalgia aside, Armstead has had a great two-week stretch. He has played over 70% of snaps and accumulated 10 pressures (one sack) in this timespan. On the season, Armstead is just five pressures away from his 2024 total and, while his underlying pass-rush grade has dipped compared to the past two seasons, it sits at a respectable 64.4 after grading out at 72.4 in Week 10.
Armstead also draws a favorable team matchup in Week 11 as the Jaguars take on the Chargers, who have been a phenomenal matchup for opposing interior defenders. On the season, the Chargers average a league-high 35.61 fantasy points per game to opposing interior defenders. Since Week 2, every DT room that has faced the Chargers has exceeded its season average. While the Jaguars only average 13.8 DT points per game as a team, this feels like a something’s got to give game, particularly considering PFF rates the Chargers’ offensive line as the worst in the NFL.
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