Jared Allen has 20.5 sacks in his last 14 games and 32 in his past 25 contests. He also has 105 sacks since the start of the 2004 season, the highest total in football.Cliff Avril led the Lions with 11 sacks last season. He also led the NFC with six forced fumbles. In two career outings against the Rams he has no sacks and no forced fumbles. Cedric Benson is one of only five NFL runners who has run for 1,000 yards each of the past three seasons. This week he faces a 49ers defense that led the NFL last season allowing just 77.3 yards per game on the ground. The Niners also allowed three rushing scores all season. The Bucs had an NFL worst 26 rushing scores allowed in 2011. Most seem to have forgotten that Drew Brees set NFL records for yardage (5.476) and 300-yard games (13) last season. He also set NFL records for completions (468) and completion percentage (71.2). Oddly, the Redskins seem to he his Kryptonite. In four career matchups he has thrown for only three touchdowns while tossing seven inceptions. However, in the last meeting he turned all that around and threw for 419 yards and two touchdowns.Calais Campbell has 4.5 sacks the last four times that he has faced the Seahawks.Chris Clemons of the Seahawks has 11 sacks in his last 15 games. In six career games against the Cardinals he's picked up four sacks while forcing a fumble.Marques Colston finished last season on a roll with an average of 105.5 yards a game over his last four contests while scoring five times. His worst effort in that stretch was seven catches for 81 yards. In his last game against the 'Skins he had a TD but he caught only two passes for 46 yards.Vernon Davis had four catches for 126 yards an a touchdown in his last game against the Packers. In three career matchups he has 308 yards and three scores.Larry Fitzgerald has played one full season against the Seahawks – 16 games. In that time all he has done is catch 102 passes for 1,371 yards and 10 touchdowns. Ho hum.Matt Forte is the only player in league history with at least 900 yards rushing and 400 yards receiving in each of his first four seasons. He's also the only player in league history with at least 900 yards rushing and 50 receptions in each of his first four seasons.Josh Freeman has faced the Panthers four times in his career and thrown just five touchdown passes. Even worse, he's also tossed six interceptions while losing two fumbles in the matchup. Tony Gonzalez has never faced the Chiefs in his career. Of course, that's because he played for the club from Kansas City for 12 seasons.Steven Jackson has rushed for 1,000 yards in seven straight seasons. That marks him as one of only seven runners in league history to attain that level. Since the start of the 2006 season he leads the NFL with an average of 114.7 yards from scrimmage (minimum 60 games played). In three career games against the Lions he has scored twice while running for 344 yards and catching 10 passes for 94 yards. That's an average of 146 yards from scrimmage per game.Chris Long has 10 sacks in his last 10 games. In seven of those 10 games he's actually picked up a sack. In two games against the Lions Long has one sack and six tackles. Brandon Marshall is going for a sixth straight season of 1,000 yards. He caught 206 passes for 2,590 yards in 2007-08 when he was working with Jay Cutler, who is now his QB once again in Chicago. In two career games against the Colts Marshall has 24 receptions for 223 yards and three scores.LeSean McCoy led the NFL last season with 20 touchdowns (17 rushing, three receiving) and 102 first downs. He's also the only back in the NFC with 1,000 rushing yards and 45 receptions each of the last two seasons.Santana Moss is one of just four players in the league who have caught 45 balls for at least 500 yards in each of the past nine seasons. Still, with a dwindling role, it would be shocking if he matched his per game performance against the Saints of 89.7 yards and 0.67 scores (three games).Cam Newton lit up the Bucs last year in two games posting a 130.9 QB rating as he produced eight, eight, scores (four passing and four rushing).Christian Ponder has made two starts against AFC clubs in his young career. Facing the Jaguars this weekend he will try to build on a ledger that has seem him record 592 yards and five touchdowns.Aaron Rodgers has been predictably terrific against the Niners in his career. In two games he has thrown for five scores without an interception on his way to a 118.9 rating.Evan Royster ran for 132 and 113 yards the last two weeks of the 2011 season. Alfred Morris was second in the NFC with 195 yards rushing in the preseason. Roy Helu is the most talented runner of the trio, and he caught 49 passes while rushing for 640 yards in his rookie season. Good luck figuring out this three-headed monster. When Matt Ryan has a 100 QB rating the Falcons are undefeated (23-0). He's also won 43 games as a starting QB, the second most by a QB in his first four seasons since 1950. In his one outing against the Chiefs Ryan posted a QB Rating of 120.6. John Skelton went 5-2 as a starter last season for the Cardinals. He's also led six game winning drives in the fourth quarter and OT in his last 10 games. In his one outing against the Seahawks he threw for 271 yards, one score and one interception.Alex Smith has posted a QB rating of 100.0 ten times in his career and the Niners have won each of those 10 contests. In two regular season meetings with the Packers he has a 69.8 QB Rating.Matthew Stafford threw for 5,038 yards and 41 scores last season, only the third time in league history a QB has reached both those marks. He also became the 2nd youngest QB ever to thrown for 4,000 yards with 30 scores in a season (Dan Marino). He had none of that success in his lone matchup with the Rams when he threw for just 168 yards, no score, and one interception.Michael Vick should be nearly 100 percent in Week 1 against the Browns. In his two outings against them in his career he has not performed well, not even close. Vick has completed just 41.3 percent of his passes for two scores while he has thrown three interceptions and lost a fumble.DeAngelo Williams has run for eight scores in 10 games against the Bucs. He also scored two times in their last matchup, and the three times that he has carried the ball at least 19 times against the Buccaneers he's averaged 153 yards a game.Russell Wilson will start his first NFL game in Week 1. He set an NCAA-FBS record by throwing 379 straight passes without being picked-off. I wonder how many passes he will throw in the NFL before his first turnover through the air?RANDOM START OF THE WEEK(That one player you would never consider starting but for some reason he might be worth a look if you're desperate.) Lance Mo0re, WR, Saints Adrian Arrington is dealing with a knee issue. Marques Colston is dealing with a foot issue. Darren Sproles has been slowed this preseason with a knee issue. Moore is player that Drew Brees trusts. He's also had a bushel of success against the Redskins in his career: one game, one catch, seven yards. See why it makes so much sense... because it doesn't make sense. Ray Flowers can be heard daily on Sirius/XM Radio on The Fantasy Drive on Sirius 210 and XM 87, Monday through Thursday at 7 PM EDT and Friday's at 9 PM EDT. Ray's analysis can be found at BaseballGuys.com and his minute to minute musings can be located at the BaseballGuys' Twitter account.