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The ESPN+ Cheat Sheet for Week 12 is your one-stop shop for fantasy football advice. We've curated all our best start/sit advice from this week, including insights from Matt Bowen, Mike Clay, Tristan H. Cockcroft, Eric Karabell and Liz Loza. Don't have time to read it all? That's why cheat sheets were invented! Catch up on a week's worth of reading in mere minutes, see which players are on the injury report, consider the betting data and then set your lineup with confidence knowing you've put your team in the best position to win. Lines accurate as of latest time stamp. For latest odds, go to ESPN BET.  Injury aggregation powered by RotoWire. Football Power Index by ESPN Analytics.
  Tampa Bay Buccaneers -6 vs. New York Giants
Locks: Sunday 1 p.m. ET
Over/under total: 41.5 (ninth highest)
FPI favorite: Buccaneers by 7.6, 70.1% to win outright Buccaneers injury watch: WR Cody Thompson: O Giants injury watch: WR Malik Nabers: Q; WR Darius Slayton: Q; WR Bryce Ford-Wheaton: Q Best of the Week Mike Clay: Tommy DeVito has replaced Daniel Jones as the Giants' starting QB. The key here will simply be whether DeVito can successfully get the ball into the hands of Malik Nabers, Tyrone Tracy Jr. and Wan'Dale Robinson. This is a terrific matchup for the Giants' offense and it has a lot of them down the stretch. Tampa Bay sits top six in fantasy points allowed to QBs, RBs, WRs and TEs. Nabers and Tracy should remain in lineups, whereas Robinson is a PPR flex option. DeVito is a back-end starting option in superflex formats. Tristan H. Cockcroft: Tracy has clearly taken hold of the backfield, in both rushing and receiving roles. The Buccaneers are the second-best matchup for running backs during the past five weeks, and considering the Giants are expected to trail in this game, expect Tracy to play a more meaningful role in the passing game in addition to his usual rushing exploits. Matt Bowen: The Buccaneers have logged multiple sacks in seven straight games, with a total of nine over their past three, and have takeaways in four of their past five. This looks like a game where Bucs head coach Todd Bowles dials up some heat, blitzing defenders from the second and third level to speed up DeVito's internal clock. Liz Loza: Theo Johnson figures to remain central to the G-Men's offensive plan this week. Tampa Bay has allowed the third-most fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends, giving Johnson top-15 positional appeal.
  Kansas City Chiefs -10.5 vs. Carolina Panthers
Locks: Sunday 1 p.m. ET
Over/under total: 42.5 (eighth highest)
FPI favorite: Chiefs by 11, 76.5% to win outright
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