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New England Patriots D/ST
New England Patriots · Defense/Special teams
A defense's own recent form is a fifth as informative as the market's view of its opponent: implied opponent total correlates -0.29 with next week’s points against +0.11 for trailing production. Defensive touchdowns reproduce at 0.02, so nothing here tries to predict one.
Week 4 projection
Fantasy points
4.6
vs BUF
Opponent implied total
27.8
the market’s view
Career by season
| Season | Games | Sacks/gm | Takeaways/gm | Pts allowed | Def TD | Pts/gm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | 3 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 17.0 | 1 | 8.7 |
| 2025 | 17 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 18.8 | 4 | 7.1 |
| 2024 | 17 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 24.5 | 1 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 17 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 21.5 | 1 | 5.5 |
| 2022 | 17 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 20.4 | 11 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 17 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 17.8 | 3 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 16 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 22.1 | 4 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 16 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 14.1 | 8 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 20.3 | 3 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 16 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 18.5 | 0 | 6.5 |