Fantasy Football Weekly week 4

edition on the Fan. I am Paul church in Coast are not, in fact Matt Harrison. In fact, we should probably change the opener because he's only on like half of the shows. Uh. It is the triumphant return of Christian Peterson. Hello, welcome back, Thank you. What's the guy got do to get on the opener around here? I know, well for a show. You know, we've had like ten shows, you haven't been on any So there's that. Brian Johnson, as always, you're dependable. I can count on you, shockingly.

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of their ongoing support for our show. We've got plenty to get to of course, as always, like five tough questions, premature speculation, take a chance on me, and matchups from every damn game in this whole slate, and there's a bunch of them, including another early start another London game. But we begin first with the Los Angeles Rams taking on the Dallas Cowboys. Rams offense, of course, has been

fantastic to this point. I think even those of us that were optimistic about the Rams did not see forty point explosions coming from a team that averaged fourteen points last year, dead last in the NFL. Now they get the Dallas Cowboys. What do you think, Christian Well, I think this is a little bit of a different story. You know, last week was really the true, the true offensive explosion against against the forty nine ers in that Thursday night game that everybody saw, kind of Jared Goffs

coming out party. But on the road against Dallas, I think this is a little bit of a different animal. And God, let's face it, he was. He was just okay for the first two weeks, which is significantly better than he was last year. But really that breakout of two yards and three touchdowns against San fran I guess I'm not really buying that at this point. I need

to see it a little bit more. Dallas gave up four touchdowns to Trevor Simeon in week two three and twenty five yards and two touchdowns to Carson Palmer in week three, So you can move the ball here, I guess start Jared Goff with about a cell that secondary is going to be all banged up again, then yeah, I think you do. Yeah, and then starting great on him and then at wide receiver. That brings Sammy Watkins

into play. Of course, he had the breakout game last week over a hundred yards and two touchdowns, more than doubled his yardage in the first two games combined. Um expected to play too, We should mention expected to play right. He had that. He had the concussion right, and he's recovered in in like three days, which is Yeah, it's amazing how quickly or slowly that concussion protocol can go.

That's right, Dallas. Let Larry Fitzgerald go off for a hundred and forty nine yards and a touchdown in week three, So let's give. Let's give. Watkins is starting grade here as well. I've got let's let's go be minus again. I don't really trust this, but what we've seen so far indicates that you could play them. I've got Robert Woods and Cooper Cup on the bench here. Uh, I'm not buying the Robert Woods breakout from that. I got to see that a little bit more. So keep those

guys on the bench. And of course, Todd Gurley uh six touchdowns through the first three games, which is pretty absurd, equaling his total from last year. Right, he is averaging just three point eight yards per carry, So there's there feels like there's a little flukiness here. Right, He's got a bunch of short touchdowns, so at some point that's going to regress to the mean here. But the but the Cowboys defense just kind of mediocre. Nothing much to

see here. C J. Anderson went for a hundred and fifty four combined rushing and receiving yards and two touchdowns against them a couple of weeks ago, so keep Gurley going. I've got an a grade on him. On the Cowboys side, a bunch of starters here. Um, they've survived against a pretty tough slate of defenses in their first three weeks against the Giants, the Broncos, and the Cardinals. Dak Prescott now has five touchdowns, including a rush rushing score in

the last two games. The Rams melted down against Brian Hoyer of course, the last time we saw them through and in thirty two yards and three total touchdowns for Hoyer. So I've got an a grade on Prescott this week. I think, uh, I think the Cowboys are gonna be able to move the ball here and that brings does Brian into play maybe as an a here. You talk

about a tough three game matchup stretch. He started out with generous Jenkins and then a keep to leave or take your pick of the Broncos corners, and then Patrick Peterson and he managed he's kind of salvaged that with touchdowns in two straight games. Not a lot of catches, not a lot of yards. But now that he gets the Rams, who just gave up hundred forty two yards to Pierre Garson a week ago. So I've got Bryant in as an a level start here. Let's hope he uh,

Let's hope he finally done. Uh. And then just not enough, not enough to go around here for Terence Williams and Cole Beasley. They just don't throw to those guys that much. Jason Witten, I've got a starting grade on um kind of fell flat last week after a big first couple of weeks. The Rams are top ten against opposing tight ends they were last year. So not a great start here, but I think Whitten deserves a starting grade. Let's give

him a b uh. And then Ezekiel Elliott bounce back with eight yards and a touchdown against a very good Cardinals run defense last week. Now gets a really bad Rams running defense. They allowed five rushing touchdowns. In the last two weeks, Um Redskins and forty Niners running backs have combined for three and twenty six rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns. So this might be the big Ezekiel

Elliott outburst that we've been waiting for. Yeah, and Zeke over the course of his career at home never better at home, never failed to either hit one yards and or a touchdown, so he has always been a fantasy factor in every home game in his career. He's my number one running back for this week overall. Bills take out in the Falcons and for Lashawn McCoy it was a great week one and then two straight absolute clunkers. Does he bounce back here against the Atlanta Falcon is Brian?

If he doesn't, then you need to start worrying. But I'm going to give him an a. Atlanta is still getting owned by pass catching running backs that are allowing eight and a half catches and seventy three receiving yards per game to the position. Shady has also done really well indoors on turf. In fifteen games, he's averaging more than five and a half yards per carrying a hundred combo yards. He scored ten times in those fifteen games. So I like Shady this week? Do you like Charles

Clay as well? Going to give him a B. He leads all tight ends and targets from inside the ten yard line, so it's no surprise He's scored in two of three games, and the Falcons have allowed at least six catches to opposing tight ends in two three games, so it's a good spot for Clay here. Jordan Matthews, I'm actually gonna give him a starting grade. Only eight catches through three games, but averaging nineteen yards per reception. This is a likely shootout over Unders at forty nine points.

Matthews has run nearly seventy percent of his routes from the slot. Brian pool Atlanta slot corner has allowed the most receptions amongst lot corners with seventeen, so I think Matthews will be a helper here. Where was this for take a chance on me? I don't know. That would have been a perfect taking chance to me. You better right then, Tyrod Taylor. I went to see how he has done indoors during his career. He has never played inside. What I know the Bills have played in like Toronto

and a couple of random indoor games. He never started any in those games, so wow, weird. Okay, So Atlanta's new stadium, which some have dubbed Megatron's b Hole. Um, the roof might be open. What well you have to see how it opens? The top opens Megatron Calvin Johnson, Now okay, sorry, So either way, I'm counting this as a dome game, so I'm excited to see Taylor on the fast track. Atlanta owns the highest opponent passing play percentage at sevent so, like I said, it's gonna be

a shootout. So I like Taylor in this game. I'm gonna give him the b over to Atlanta. Julio Jones gonna give him an a back. Issues have limited him in practice, but he should be fine. Buffalo has allowed the third most catches to wide receivers. He's an easy start. You can also start Mohammed Sanu, who was averaging seven targets and five catches per game so far. He's in a good spot here. Taylor Gabriel is kind of close to his starting grade, but not this week. But he's

a guy you should really grab if you're a Julio owner. Uh, He's one of the rare wide receiver handcuffs. And when Julio went down for that handful of games at the end of last year, Gabriel was money. Absolutely, that's anybody left. Uh, A couple more guys, Austin Hooper on the bench. Outside of his flukey eight eight yard touchdown, he's only caught five passes for fifty six yards and three games, just

two targets in each game. Matt Ryan and to give him a B, Buffalo is fifth an opponent pass play percentage. They haven't allowed a passing touchdown, but they faced Josh McCown, Cam Newton and Trevor Simeon. Then for the running backs,

and then it's a tough matchup. Saponte Freeman gets a B. Tevin Coleman gets a See, Buffalo was allowing less than three point four yards per carry and only twenty two rushing attempts per game, and they've only allowed one receiving touchdown to running back since Week fourteen of two thousand and fifteen. Wow, but you got to play these Atlanta backs and I'm sitting call I got Coleman in one league. I'm sorry to say, and I'm sitting I can't follow

you if you have the ceiling. In this one, Detroit takes on the Vikings and we start with Golden Tate, who moves to the slot this year. I think largely because Kenny Golladay was so good, they were able to put Tait in his natural position. But the important thing that you need to understand here is that means he's going to avoid the vikings best cornerback, Xavier Rhodes, who only plays five percent of his snaps from the slot position.

I don't believe he's gonna follow Tate into the slot. Instead, he'll likely get a lot of Terence Newman, maybe some Mackenzie Alexander and those are those are plus matchups for him. So Golden Tate comes in has an a grade here, and in part because I like him, I like Matthew

Stafford isn't a grade as well. The Vikings of do you know the Vikings, As I mentioned, you're not gonna have to worry about Xavier Rhodes on Golden Tate and through three games, opposing quarterbacks averaging a whopping two eighty seven yards, and the Vikings have already given up five touchdowns through the air now, so I'm not spending garbage time, but now it still counts garbage time. Maybe it happen.

It's here too. Over the past two years against the Vikings, Stafford is average two fifty bards passing and almost two touchdowns per game, and I think that feels about right here. So a minus level for Matthew Stafford. Kenny Golladay, assuming he plays in is that near health, which is not a given necessarily. UM still getting looks from Matthew Stafford. He I think he will get a lot of Trey

Waynes in this one. Xavier Rhodes probably shadows Marvin Jones, who's on the bench for a grade for us and our purposes here, That means that UM and I think Holliday ends up with a slight advantage here. Linebackers will be keeping tabs of theoretic and I think that can open up some of the field for Holiday. Will give him a C grade in this matchup. You can bump into be if you feel more confident about his health than I do. Everybody else is on the bench and

Doula averaging three and a half yards per carry. Vikings have been fantastic against the run, giving up just three yards per carrying, one of only two teams that has not given up a running back touchdown yet this year, and theoretic on the bench, Vikings have only allowed six catches and they only gave up six catches nineteen yards to Riddick in the two matchups of last year. Nineteen

yards through the air. That's it. They held levy on Bell to four yards through the air in Week two and the opponent posing runners as a group getting just twenty nine scoreless yards against the Vikings through the air, and that's all theoretic brings to the table. Let's go to the Viking side. Dalvin Cook straight up a. Detroit's run defense has been up and down. They shut down David Johnson in Week one, but then they gave up one hundred yards and a touchdown to DeVonta Freeman last week. One.

Area where the Lions are consistently bad, it's against pass catching backs and that's where Dalvin Cook's really gonna earn his A grade. Here. They're giving up an average of seven running back receptions for eighty yards per game, and Cook is an excellent receiver. I mentioned by comparison, Vikings are given him twenty nine yards to running backs. So that tells you how good the or how bad the eight is for the Lions. Let's let's go to the passing game. Case Keendom is under helm, got a C

grade in him. The Lion and improved past defense has held three pretty good quarterbacks Carson Palmer, Eli Manning and Matt Ryan to just one point three touchdowns per game two hundred seventy yards per game, which isn't all that bad. Still, the Vikings have toyed with the two defenses in their in their home games, and so I think there is some upside with case Keenum here. Probably not close to

what he did last week, but nevertheless startable here. That keeps stuff on Diggs and Adam theland in play here with B grades. Diggs has been basically unstoppable at home, averaging one thirty three yards and two touchdowns in the two games. But he's gonna draw Darius slap That's a super tough matchup by far the biggest challenge of his season so far, and Slay has held Odell Beckham and Julio Jones to an average of six scoreless catches per game.

So I think Diggs comes back to earth a bit in this one, Adam theland will work from the slot, and that means he's going to draw the Lions. Improved slack corner KeAndre Diggs, who has handled Larry Fitzgerald, Sterling Shepherd and Mohammed Sanu in the three game, is holding him to an average of just forty one yards. So I'm still keeping a B grade on Feeling because he's been terrific at home and it's hard to bench the guy who's got the second most receiving yards. But he

might be closer to a C grade here. And then cal Rudolph has only been two games, but Rudolph's getting roughly half the production under case Keenum that he was he's traditionally gotten under Bradford. He's blocking a lot more and I think he is blocking a lot more and and frankly good because the off as a unit has

been good working. You know it is working. He he slumps down to a C grade in this one against the lines um, although I'll mention he scored touchdowns in three of his last four against the line so there is that when we came back. Take a chance on me, not nine players, not normally in your starting lineup. Any of these guys are available on the waiver wire, will tell you who they are when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Nine players not normally

in your starting lineup. Just find out who they are for take a chance to me beginning at the quarterback position and Christian Peterson. Yeah, I'm a little disappointed in myself on this one. I was the third one in on getting to choose might take a chance on me, guys, and there wasn't much like Yeah, I actually preferred Tyrod Taylor and case Keenum, who you guys mentioned in the previous matchup segment to my guy Andy Dalton, but because

it's Andy Dalton. But I don't know. Things are looking up a little bit after his two hundred and twelve yard two touchdown out in last week, in which he at least looked borderline competent. Uh. That borderline competent might also be used to describe Jacoby Brissette, who just scorched the Browns for two d and fifty nine yards and three total touchdowns last week. So that's the matchup here. It's better than Jacoby Brissette. He's better than Jacoby Brissette

and and what's that. We'll get to him. We'll get to him. Dalton also has history on acide. He's thrown at least two touchdown passes in four straight game. It's the Browns, so there's that, all right. Now let's go to apparently Jacoby Perset. No, you don't really deserve a peacock when you play the Browns. But I'm not going to gobi per set this week. We're trying to say and like nailed set for three touchdowns and one running. They're too easy, this kidding anyway, I'm gonna get four

touchdowns this we gotta notice it. Just the Shawn Watson against the Titans at home. Even though he's a rookie, it's fair to compare him to Russell Wilson, who just gashed Tennessee, who could still be without starting strong safety Jonathan Cyprian. Watson is coming off a three yard passing performance with two touchdowns against the Patriots. He's averaging eight point three yards per carry as well has scored a rushing touchdown. He's poised for a big game at home

against the Titans. I've got um Jay Cutler in the London game. Now critical to this, we gotta hope that Jay Cutler can get his scowl past Customs at Heathrow. But assuming he can do that, I like him in this matchup. He's uh. He faces the Saint secondary that was man handled in weeks one and two and ranks thirtieth against the past. Cornerbacks march On Latimore and Sterly Moore may not play in this game, and so a bad secondary gets even worse. J Culor comes off the

schneid this week. Can you can you get jammed up in Customs because of your facial expressions? Jay Cutler can for sure, if anybody can. It's that's right. If there's a sneer that's gonna stop you at the border, j Cutler's got it. Let's go to the running back position. I feel a little bit better about this one, all right, Elijah McGuire of the Jets going up the up against the Jaguars this week. This one is all about opportunity.

Matt Forte has already been ruled out of this game for the Jets, which is probably good because he's been awful all year long alright, as has been the starter Balal Powell, who's averaging two point six yards per carry. Sorry, Church, he looks bad. He looks like Balal Powell. Uh. And meanwhile, McGuire, a sixth round rookie. He's averaging four point eight yards per carry, granted in limited carries, but he's got six or seven watches in each of the last couple of games.

And now he comes into a very favorable matchup. Jacksonville is allowing an average of four point eight yards per carry to opposing running backs so far. Former Ravens practice squad guy Alex Collins gained eighty two yards on nine carries against them last week. McGuire is the dept in the passing game from his college career. So there's there's some opportunity here. This is this is a sneaky little opportunity against some bad Jaguars run defense that can stop

the pass but not the run. All right, go to Brian, you're running back. Let's talk about Alex Collins, who, yes, who I found out was the greatest lacrosse college lacrosse player that never was. He decided to play football instead, became the second all time leading Russia at Arkansas behind Darren McFadden. So there you go Collins history. But he's got the Steelers this week. As you mentioned, Collins had nine carries for eighty two yards against the Ravens last week,

I'll beat in garbage time, he looked pretty good. Parents West and Buck Allen had been flat out bad. Both are averaging lists in four yards for carry on the season. And to quote head coach John Harbaugh regarding Collins, yeah, I like the fact that he gets yards. That is a good thing. And speaking of yards, Pittsburgh allowed two hundred and sixteen rushing yards to Chicago running backs last week.

So look for Collins to get more opportunities on Sunday and uh hopefully help you out Wehendell Smallwood's role is going to increase dramatically with Darren Sproles going to i R, He's going to pick up a lot of the pass catching work that Sprowles was getting. Plus he was already getting upwards of a dozen carries per week like last week. And like Garrett Plant, let's remember is one game removed

from a zero touch game. This week's opponent is the Chargers, the team allowing the most rushing yards in the entire league and the six most rushing yards per carry. When Dell Smallwood, let's go to the wide receiver position, Christian, Yeah, let's go with Devin funch Us here against the Patriots. Of course, the Patriots haven't been able to stop anyone this year. They're allowing thirty two points per game. They made both Alex Smith and Deshaun Watson looked like superstars.

They've allowed the second most yards to a posing wide receivers, and that brings punch Us into play. I have my doubts about whether Sadly, I have my doubts about whether Cam Newton can actually exploit any defense. But Kelvin Benjamin is nursing a little bit of an injury. He mysteriously he's off the injury report after leaving that game last week, and everybody thought it was like a season ending injury. Anyways,

Benjamin is back, but potentially not full strength. Greg Olson is out in that same situation, Funcius was targeted ten times last week. He only caught four. He was targeted the receiver last week. Yes, well, he's gonna do much better this week against this bad Patriots defense. Alright, Bryan, I'm going with my premature speculation from last week. Austin

Seferian Jenkins at home against the Jaguars. A s J led the Jets and targets last week and was also targeted inside the five yard line, so he's now tied for the team lead to make targets inside the five. They've only been inside the five one other time. He is the team leader. Can't take that away from him. Don't for get Josh McCown made Gary Barnage a pro bowler a few years ago in Cleveland. He likes to lean on his tight end. A s J is a

way better athlete. He has rededicated his life. He's three d days sober after a mostly embarrassing so I have faith in him there. And Jacksonville is allowing nearly six catches and six yards per game to tight ends and they've surrendered too tough. And then he strender touchdowns at the position and back to back game, So give a shot on a s J. Um My guy was a highly touted preseason receiver who was currently in your league roughly receiver number one hundred in production and has been

dropped in of leagues outright. And that's Brandon Marshall. Quietly last week and the shadow of O. B j's highlight real catches he was targeted eleven times in that game. He caught eight of them for sixty six yards. His whole deals he needs O. B. J to be on the field for Brandon Marshall to be effective, and that's going to be the case here. He gets Tampa whose secondary is a disaster. They're allowing the most yards to wide receivers, They've got injuries all through a secondary, and

he's gonna be He's got. His matchup is coming up against Vernon Hargreaves, whose jock is currently being excavated out of the U. S Bank Stadium turf with a jackhammer. Brandon Marshall, your final take a chance on me player. Usually don't go with a guy that big of a name, but I don't think anybody has been considering starting. I dropped him in one of my league. Yeah thoughts. People did, Yeah,

And I'm totally understandable. And I think I think he was dropped in way more than twenty percent of leagues, and then other people picked him up on name value. I think he was the original owners probably dropped him more like fifty percent. Let's go back to the matchups. Bengals taking on the Cleveland Browns. Christian I have reasonably. You're okay with Andy Dalton. I am. In fact, he was just might take a chance on the quarterback moments ago.

He's in as as a sea level, lowest possible starting grade that you can you can have. Uh. A. J Green, however, is an a. This Brown secondary is atrocious. Antonio Brown took them for a hundred and eighty two yards. T I Hilton went for a hundred and fifty three yards just last week against them. In his last two games against Cleveland, Green head eight catches for a hundred and sixty nine yards and a touchdown, and then five catches for a hundred twenty eight yards. It's pretty good one touchdown.

So Green is an obvious A. No other Cincinnati wide receiver has more than six targets or four catches in a game, so they are all on the bench. Uh so really that brings us to Joe Mixon. So uh the running game here, The torch was officially passed to mixing last week. One touches a hundred and one combined rushing and receiving yards. Geo Bernard and Jeremy Hill split just thirteen touches between them, So this is all about mixing here. If you look at Cleveland's defense on paper,

they look okay. They held a Rusty Levy on Bell to thirty two yards in Week one and then they held Baltimore in Indianapolis down, but that's not saying much. So I'm gonna bank more on what they did last year when they were the second worst run defense in the NFL. No reason to think they've suddenly turned the corner here. So uh this uh you know, I don't know. Maybe last week was Mixing's brain account game, but this

could be at here. Much like some of the other rookies have done so far, I think we're gonna see a big, big game from Joe Mixing here on the brown side, I don't have a single well, I have almost a starting grade. Let's you've got a you've got a deep plot. Yeah, let's start in the in the passing game, where I've got to Shaun Kaiser on the bench. He does have rushing touchdowns in two of three games.

But this Cincinnati defense is is pretty solid. They weren't tested in weeks one and two by Joe Flacco and Deshaun Watson, and then Aaron Rodgers torched them. But Shaun Kaiser, he's not Aaron Rodgers, So there's just not enough here to like for Kaiser uh bench. All the wide receivers. Kenny Britt had one catching news of the first two games. He scored in Week three looked a little bit more involved,

but there's just nothing here. Richard Higgins, of course, two weeks ago, had the seven catches for ninety five yards. Everybody picked him up. He was the hot waiver wire ad. Then he had two catches on six targets in Week three. So these guys are all on the bench, as is um rookie tight end David and Joeku Uh two touchdowns in two games, but no more than three catches or

twenty nine yards in a game so far. In the running game, I've got Isaiah Crowle on the bench since he allows just three and a half yards per carry. UH just four running back touchdowns in their last nine games going back to last year. Kroll is averaging just two point nine yards per carry and hasn't topped forty four yards in a game. So that brings in the one marginal starter here, and that's Duke Johnson, who I gave a c really only in PPR leagues here because

that's the role he's playing. He has nine catches for a hundred and forty yards in the last two last two games. This matchup is a tough one, but since he did. Cincinnati did allow the fifth most receptions to opposing running backs last year, So again, in a PPR situation, he's, uh, maybe capable of filling in your flex spot. Your glimmer

of hope. Rizaiah Crow Well, he has scored and or topped one hundred yards and three straight against the Bengals and they've they've been a good run defense through all of those games. So that's your glimmer of hope. But based on what what we've seen so far this year, it's been a disaster for a well. Unfortunately, when we come back, the Jacksonville Jaguars take on the Jets, will Blake Bortles back to back big explosive games. We'll find out when

we return. You're distinctive Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Welcome back to the show. It is Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan Paul Charchy and Brian Johnson and Christian Peterson with you. Blake Bortles. I've semi inexplicably went berserk in London on the Ravens last week, Brian, he could go back to back against the Jets. Yeah, he really

goes off in London, thought the place. I'll give him a CE just because I like a few of his pass catchers and this is the Jets, so Bortles gets to see going over to his receivers Mark eas Lea and give him a B. People probably forget that he was drafted before Alan Robinson by the way. In fact, he was on his way to a nice day in London as well. Had four catches for sixty seven yards on seven targets, but Jacksonville didn't really need to throw the ball much in the second half, so he was

pretty much shut down. Lee has as many targets as Alan Hearns and Keelan Cole combined, and the Jets have allowed at least one wide receiver touchdown in every game so far. So I'm Mike and Lee. I'll give Hearns to see as well. This is a good enough matchup for him. He did find the end zone in London. Also a bit of a road warrior on the road in his career, Herns is averaging extra twenty yards and has scored twice as many touchdowns as opposed to home

fourteen to seven. Peculiar, very peculiar. Marcedes Lewis gonna give him a C three touchdowns last week. We all saw that coming. It'll happen again this week. Um was my tight end number one. Yep, I'm called yeah, that was a good call. I'm kidding, of course, as are you, but are jokes aside. Other than Julius Thomas, opposing tight ends have been very involved against the Jets. Baltimore tight ends were targeted eleven times. Oakland tight ends were targeted

eight times. So there is a little hope from Marcedes Lewis here, but the start of the day for the Jaguars will probably be Letard four net. I'll give him a B almost in a without Sheldon Richardson, the Jets ranked twenty five against the run per Football Outsiders d v o A metrics. Fournet has scored in every game, but he's working hard for his yards only three point five years. The offensive line is giving him nothing. If they get to be a guy I think he's running hard.

If they ever get that offensive line figured out, he will be a menace. H He has catch totals of three, three and two, which have been a nice little helper as well in PPR leagues. But the one reason for concern really is the Jets held j G I in company to twenty one yards on fourteen carries. So I don't know. We'll see if they do that again. I'm I'm I don't think. I don't either. So Fornet is

definitely startable. But the Jets, really, outside of Elijah McGuire, cps take a chance of me running back, and Austin Sefari and Jenkins might take a chance on meat receiver. I do think you can throw it darted, BELLEL. Powell. I'll give him. Is a very tough matchup though the Jaguars run defense. They allowed Derrick Henry to have a pretty nice showing and Alex Collins did well in garbage time. But take those two out of the equation and the

Jaguars are allowing three point four yards per carrying. Okay, yeah, but they played three games. You can't take two of the running backs away from them when they played three games. I think they're just like the Jets. Past defense is awesome, so I thinks tend to run the ball a lot on them, and they're having a fair measure of success. You're just trying to justify Belol Powell was like, yeah, you were more than I was this year. I'm surprised

I have to I have to defend him this year. Guys, but were And then as you said, revention the wide receivers for the Jets, very tough matchup for them because it's Bill all Powell. The Jets will find a way to ensure that even with Forte out, Bill all Powell is a non factor in this game, because that's what the Jets do. Baby Uh. Carolina takes out the New

England Patriots. Who was the last year which who was the quarterback that was had the epically bad season, so bad that he's like out of football now Brock who's got a worse passer rating this year than brock os Swidler had last year. Cam Newton Patriots has spent the first three weeks in shootouts, allowing three hundred passing yards and multiple touchdowns in every game. So you would think any minimum Cam can get you two garbage time stats

in this game. But we thought that last week when he was playing the number thirty one ranked past defense and did absolutely nothing. In fact, found his way to getting benched. So this week, let's hope that God that Cam can get it together one last chance at a starting grade for Cam Newton. I'm actually giving him a B. This is a Christian Peterson B. This is the only reason is because you're on the show. See otherwise it would be just delight in getting getting the Panthers matchup.

Did you assign the matchup this week? You did? Just just say you could pummel him. Yes, he's bumbling himself at this point. Christian McCaffrey has got a great opportunity here be great here we saw it could happened last week when when he's more involved in the passing game, which you will be with Greg Olson out ended up with nine receptions career high. And this is a Patriots defense giving up six receptions eight four receiving yards per

game to opposing running backs. McCaffrey's a B grade. Even Jonathan Stewart shoul getting the action at a sea level here. I like him for the reasons that I like Christian McCaffrey. I'm nervous about Stewart um because McCaffrey is gonna get a lot of action through the air, but Stewarts should still have a measure of success. Here. Teams are running the ball against New England very well. New England's allowed the seventh most rushing yards and get this five point

eight yards per carry against the Patriots. Also in the passing game, Calvin Benjamin and Devin Funch just gets C grades. Benjamin is going to play. Devin funchis was gonna take a chance of me wide receiver in this one. If I if I can muster my way to a B grade on Cam Newton, I gotta go with his receivers as well. Um, New England is a lot of the third most wide receiver yards one per game. Let's go to the New England side. Brady Gronk Cooks all obvious

A plays at their at their respective positions. They ranked first, verse and eighth in my rankings positional ranking. So Brady Gronkin Cook's all in. Let's go to some some of the dice heer guys. Chris Hogan gets a B grade here he faces a airline defense that just gave up touchdowns the three different New Orleans receivers, although they did not give up a single score to receivers in the

first two weeks of the season. Of course, that's because they played Hoyer entirode Taylor in the first two weeks. Now they get a passing attack that's much closer to what they had last week when they wilted in the face of Drew Brees. Chris Hogan gets a B. Damny on Danny Almondola, though I'm putting on the bench, he works primarily out of the slot. That means he's gonna draw Captain Munderland, who is a solid slot receiver orcho slat cornerback. Let's go to the running backs. Mike gillis

Lee gets a B grade here. Last week the Patriots scored five times. None were from Gillislee, in no small part because all of the touchdowns were from at least five yards out and more. And you know all this works. Gillislee needs carries inside the five and then you get your touchdowns like he did in weeks one and two.

Potentially worrisome, though, the three rushes the Panthers defense has faced from inside the five yard line have resulted in a net of negative six yards for the offense, and obviously no touchdown scored when you're pushing back the opposing line, So a measure of worry there for Mike Gillislee, still a B grade because I do think points are coming,

and a C grade for James White. Last year, the Panthers allowed the third most receptions to running backs, although they only gave up one receiving touchdown all year, which is a little inexplicable. Same deal going this year. They're giving up seven running back receptions per game, but nobody has scored. Will expect James White to do a lot of what you've seen so far. Let's go to our next matchup, which is uh New Orleans taking on Miami Christian We just talked a little bit in passing about

Drew Brees another excellent opportunity for him here. Uh yeah, absolutely. The bad news is he's on the road where over the last couple of years he'll he averages sixty fewer yards and almost a touchdown fewer than he does at home. But the good news is he's still still yards and almost two touchdown per games. So he's an obvious a start,

as is Michael Thomas here. Thomas had seven catches for eighties seven yards and a touchdown last week, but that was almost a disappoint because he had five for fifty and that touchdown on the first drive alone and then sort of disappeared. So I still don't think we've seen the Michael Thomas breakout, but it could come this week against a really bad Miami Michael Thomas break out last week with two touchdowns and you know now he just he just had one. Though he had he said one time.

Maybe you keep going. I will thank you. According to Football Outsiders, the Dolphins ranked against opposing number one wide receivers and dead last at defending excuse me, opposing number two wide receivers. So Michael Thomas is an easy a ted gain. I'm not gonna go there. No more than six targets, five catches, or fifty three yards in a game thus far. He may return. He cropped up on the injury report with a hamstring injury and he's questionable.

But because of that and because of the three game suspension, he's a little bit rusty. I don't trust Willie Snead for this week. Seven one for Michael Thomas, thank you very much. As I said, uh, let's bring let's bring Kobe Fleaner into play this week as a Sea level starter. Scored in weeks one and two of course, the last three games, his target touches have gone to six to four to one, so they're not using them that much. But Miami allowed hundred one yards in a touchdown to

Chargers tight ends in Week one. Safari and Jenkins went for five catches in Week two. Dating back to the middle of last year, they've allowed nine tight end touchdowns in their last nine games. So an opportunity to to hop back on the Fleaner mobile this week. In the running game, I've got these guys all on the benchmark ingram Adrian Peterson, Alvin Kamara. The Dolphins held Melvin Gordon

to thirteen rushing yards on nine carries. They held Balal Powell to thirty seven yards on fifteen carries, so they've been very good so far. For the Saints, no running back has run for more than fifty six yards in a game this year, and only one Kamara has scored.

Interesting story, I learned last night that Adrian Peterson's daughters, one of his many daughters, is in third grade with my son and she she plays touch football playground and it's quite good and it's not I bet, I bet she's great and is not afraid to tell people that her dad. Yeah, that's that's Adriana Peterson. Is that her name, Adriana. I'm not kidding. I'm not surprised. It's a little bit like George Farman's kids. That's right. Yeah. On the Dolphins side,

we have a homecoming of sorts here for Jgi. Of sorts. This is like the most epic homecoming I've ever heard of in my life. Yeah, he's from London and so here he is back in London. He looked great in week one, then of course laid the huge egg in week two. As I believe charge was he your number one running He was my number one running back last week? Everything, everything suggested that he should have had an awesome game against goes for eleven carries in sixteen yards, and he's

my number three this week. So apparently I am incapable of learning from my mistakes. The Saints give up four and a half yards per carry. Daln Cook went for a hundred twenty seven yards against him in week one. The matchup is right here. It's the homecoming for a Gi. I think this is the game we were expecting last week and obvious a level start here. No team has given up more total yards to running backs than the Saints. YEP, the passing game Jay Cutler was, it was charges to

take a chance on me. Guy. I've got a start in greade on him as well. I gave him a B. Wide receiver Davanta Parker, let's give him an A kind of salvaged a weird game last week with a garbage time touchdown. Now gets the Saints defense that's given up nine wide receiver touchdowns in their last six games. Uh gave up tune in fifty yards to Stefan Diggs and Adam Felan in Week one than a hundred and eighty three yards to Patriots wide receivers a week ago, So

this could be a big game for Davante Parker. I've also got a starting grade on Jarvis Landry. Let's give him a B. He's got double digit targets in both games, and slot guys have been able to do some damage against the Saints. Adam Theland played a lot out of the slot in his big game. Chris Hogan as well, seventy yards and a touchdown out of the slot, So uh, it should be a good game for Jarvis Landry as well.

I like I like both of them a lot here, and that's part of why I had ja Cutlers might take a chance to me quarterback make life's opportunities for his receivers, and Sterling Moore may very well not play in that game. Final matchup of this segment, it's the Tennessee Titans taking on the Houston the Houston Texans. What do you make of that? That Titans backfield, Because man, that that's throwing fantasy owners for a total loop. This whole team is the most exasperating fantasy team out there,

probably headache. But Murray, Yeah, he was on the ropes last week, but certainly showed he has some fight left. I'll give him a B, albeit in a tough matchup. The Texans are ranked seventh against the run by Football Outsiders. They've only allowed one hundred and sixteen rushing yards to running backs over the last two games, and they're not very generous through the air either to backs. Leonard for Nett had the best game receiving by running back with

three catches and for twenty four yards. So not a great matchup for Murray, but you gotta play him. I'll give Derrick Henry a desperation ce based on this matchup. He got more carries than Murray when these two teams met the second time late last year, total sixty eight yards on sixteen touches and scored a touchdown. Henry was somewhat quiet compared to Murray last week, but he still got thirteen carries, and on the season, Henry has twice as many red zone carries as tomorrow Ko does, so

he could factor in there. I'll give Richard Matthews, Eric Decker, and Corey Davis, who's making his return to see because the Texans are still without starting corner Kevin Johnson. UH. They had their way with Jacksonville and Cincinnati wide receivers, but New England wide outs just put up four touchdowns against the Texans, so there is some hope for Tennessee pass catchers here. Matthews is the best play of the four,

or of the three. He had nine for one, fourteen in a touch and two for eighty two against Houston last year. UH Delaney Walker just to see for him. In two games against the Texans last year, he totaled just seven catches for sixty nine yards. UH saw nine targets in Week one, but just six and four in the two games since. He's clearly feeling the effect of that three headed wide receiver monster with Davis coming back especially, and Marcus Mariotta just gets to say see here as well.

Only one career game against Houston, surprisingly and it was not good, so I won't even go there. He's coming off two tough matchups Jacksonville and Seattle. He did scrape together two hundred fifty all purpose yards and two touchdowns against the Seahawks. He could do that here as well. Moving to Houston real quick. DeAndre Hopkins gets an a. The NFL's target leader posted seven catches for one hundred twenty three yards at his most recent meeting with Tennessee.

That was like we would brock Oswiler at the Helm too, So that's pretty phenomenal when you think about it. Easy start there. Ryan Griffin tight end is startable to. You can give him a see five catches for sixty one yards and a touchdown in New England last week. Jared Cook was a PPR helper against UM Tennessee with five catches for fifty six yards. Jimmy Graham and Luke Wilson total ten catches for a hundred twenty five yards in

a touchdown against Tennessee. So Griffin is in play, Deshaun Watson was might take a chance on the quarterback and Lamar Miller. Lamar Miller, he gets to see left tackle Dwyane Brown continues to hold out. Starting center Greg Mans will sit. Miller has never had this line fully intact from the moment he landed in Houston last year. I'm just not that good. Hey, yes, he's pretty good. The line is not good, but anyway, he's not gonna do

well here. The Titans are allowing less than three and a half yards per carry and Dante Foreman is going to get eight to twelve carries as well, So this is just a bad matchup for Milliary. Yet again, it is another bad matchup for him, and I'm glad you mentioned offensive lines in trouble. Also out for Houston. UH starting quarterback Kevin Johnson's out as well, which is another reason to think that maybe Mariodin's receivers had a little

better game. UH. Final final letter grade for this show is a grade Marty Volpava, forty year letter carrier at the Columbia Heights Post Office and Avid listener retiring today. A grade for Marty Vorpova Volpova. Congratulations, Marty, enjoy your retirement. Hope you can see now you can get an extra fantasy football leagues right, you're not working. Let's give him a peacock for that service. That's pretty good. Uh maybe it was, or maybe he was more of a fantasy

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From this point forward, will will he Sneed be better than wide receiver thirty five or worse than wide receiver thirty five? Christian, I'm gonna go with worse. Um, he was the wide receiver thirty nine last year, so I think everybody was sort of appropriately handicapping this coming into the season before the before the suspension, of course, everybody knew that Brandon Cooks was leaving, and I think they had higher hopes for Snead based on that. But I

went back and did some research. Basically, Sneed is relevant when he's heavily targeted and not when he's not, as he might expend funny, Yeah, when targeted at least eight times, he has averages seven catches for ninety yards. When targeted fewer than eight times in his career, just three point three catches for forty four yards. So that's really what it's all about here. Michael Thomas so far this year is the only Saints wide receiver to be targeted more

than eight times. Uh Ted ginn has involved Brandon Coleman looks okay? Uh So Yeah, Willie Sneed certainly isn't gonna just step into Brandon Cook's shoes from last year. And I think you're gonna see some big games from him when he happens to be in the game plan and targeted a lot, but you're gonna see a lot more bad games. So yeah, he's gonna finish around whatever wide receiver thirty nine like he did last year. Yeah, I don't have much to add I don't. I won't trust

Willie Snein is my wide receiver. Three h He's only scored in five of thirty career games. Um, so he needs to get his work done. Between the twenties and Alvin Kamara in the mix, now that's like another fifty to sixty targets that aren't up for grabs. So almost CP and saying no, you guys took all my talking point. The answer is no. Question number two. It looks like Kareem Hunt is the cream of the rookie crop. But after him, which rookie runner will have the best fantasy career?

So not just next week, not just this year, the best fantasy career Brian talking to people in Dynasty and Empire leagues. Oh, it is Dalvin Cook and he's shown that already. Uh flashing a superior skill set um with an without an extra defender in the box. He's averaging five yards per carry so far this year, so you basically have to account for him at all times. You do that, he'll kick out to the outside, catch them passes.

He's got a legit wide receiver duo and Adam Feeling and Stefon Diggs now you can only hope that offensive line will continue to improve. I think the Bikings will make a concerted effort to do that. So it's Dalvin Cook all day. Okay, yeah, I agree, it's a cook um. You know you said, you said it all in terms

of the production that he's had so far. But he's drawing his you know, rave reviews for his past protection as well, almost as much as for what he's doing when he's got the ball in his hand, so he looks like he has the whole package. In fact, I would potentially argue that he's not behind Kareem Hunts. I think he might be a little bit ahead of Kareem Hunt in a dynasty league. If I had Kareem Hunt and somebody offered me Dalvin Cook for him, you'd make

that trade. I think I would make the trade. Wow came down to Dalvin Cook. I think the the other runners up were Leo for Nett or Tarik Cohen. Uh. None of them have certainty at quarterback, which who would have been to me a huge deciding factor. So you've got to if you've got to grief, you've got a quality quarterback that makes the running back. So life on the running back so much easier, but none of them

have certainty at quarterback. I took Cohen out because he's locked into a time share and he's not going to get the easy rushing touchdowns throughout most of it what presumably most of his career. With Jordan Howard there, I'm removing for Net because his team is the most unstable at quarterback. His offensive line is the worst of the three, and it's a PPR world, and he's probably gonna catch the least passes out of all of these guys. So I took for Net out as well, and that leaves

us with Dalvin Cook Davanni's tot question number three. Julio Jones currently ranks around wide receiver forty in most scoring systems, and he's already hurt. Is it time to stop thinking about Julio Jones as a Tier one fantasy receiver? Christian? It kind of depends on how you're defining Tier one, uh for me, because here here here fantasy finishes um in the last five years, which these are, these are, he's been health mong for most of the season for

five of of six. Yeah, among receivers, sixth last year, second the year before eighth, ninth years before that, and then seventeenth in his rookie year. Um, so he's a universally is drafted among the top three or four wide receivers, maybe the top one or two, and he's only finished that way once. So using that argument, I think you could probably say he's not actually a Tier one wide receiver because he continually disappoints. He doesn't he's not a

big bust every year. But and the injury thing is it's problematic. You know, over the last couple of years, he's been on and off the injury report for most of the year, and often, to his credit, he will suit up and play, but he often does not perform as well in those games because he's clearly hobbled. So it's kind of a tough situation for fantasy owners. But this is a yes or no question. Does he belong and does Julio? Is it time? Is it time to

stop thinking about Julio Jones is a Tier one fantasy receiver? Yes, it's time. I gotta say no, but I'm close to saying yes. Uh, long story short, I know he's not injured to me right now, he's off the injury report, but yes, he's usually on it every week. He was on it on Wednesday and Thursday Friday. So yeah, but uh well I was I was wrong on Corey Davis. So now now we're even. But anyway, um who. He has had ten plus ppyard points in every game so

far this year. Chicago was a surprisingly tough matchup in Week one, but his targets have trended up from five to nine to twelve. He's only twenty eight years old. His skills have not really diminished at all. I'm just gonna hold out hope for him, and I'm gonna keep him in the Tier one. It's super close, isn't it, Guys.

I mean as I was when I wrote it. My original thinking was when I wrote the question, the original thinking was, you know, I think it is time to think of him for think of him outside of Tier one. You know, there's all the reasons that you guys mentioned you got and except I'll add this inexplicable lack of red zone targets and back to back years they don't throw to him in the end zone. And it's gotten worse this year. It was bad last year, it's worse

this year. That said, if if I told you twenty eight hours from now he was sitting on two hundred yards and two touchdowns. Would you even be surprised? Not at all, Not at all. So for that reason he I'm still thinking of a Tier one wide receiver, but dangs it close. Devanny's hot question number four. While we're reconsidering who is and is not an elite receiver? Is

Stefon Diggs quietly a Tier one fantasy receiver? Brian, so here was my preseason tier one was Antonio Brown, Julio Jones, Odell Beckham, Mike Evans, Jordy Nelson, A J. Green, in no particular order. I'm gonna leave Evans out of this convo because he's an played two games. Uh, the others have played three. But other than that group, other than Brown and Green, Diggs has more catches than those guys.

Other than Brown, Diggs has more yards. Other than Jordan Diggs has more touchdowns that that preseason tier one I'd say DeAndre Hopkins and Brandon Cooks are now in that tier as well. After the first three weeks of the season, I still couldn't trade any of the aforementioned receivers straight up for Stefon Diggs, but the tier right below Michael Thomas, Keenan, Allen Alshon, Jeffrey Michael, Mary Cooper, Michael Crabtree. I'd put

him right there and trade for those guys. So he is knocking on the door, but he's not in the first all right, what do you think, Christian? I agree, he's he's in the he's in that second tier right now. We just we just haven't quite seen him do this consistently. He You'll remember last year he had a couple of huge games as well, um, but they were sort of spaced out and and over the long haul he turned out to be inconsistent. He had he had a lot of duds to go along with those, and only the

three touchdowns last year right on the touchdown scoring. He's got four this year. But he's he's a small guy. He's gonna have to find ways to manufacture those those those touchdowns. I don't think he's gonna ever gonna be a real dangerous, you know, highly targeted end zone kind of guy. So I just need to see a little bit more consistency, and once he does that, he'll be in Tier one. But for now he's just a step behind Tier one. Fantasy receivers have this in common. Stable

strong quarterbacking. Jordy's got a rog, Brown has got Big Ben, Mike Evans has, Jamis Winston, Odell Beckham is Eli Manning. Until Diggs has stable, repeatable strong quarterbacking, he can't be a Tier one guy because his quarterback will will hold him back from consistent greatness. And that's why Stefon Diggs is not yet a Tier one Fantasy wide Receiver's Hot question number five. Some hapless owner has been sitting on

Andrew Luck for a month. Do you want to buy low knowing that someone else has already driven the depreciation off the lot on Andrew Luck? Christian, I'm that hapless owner in like three of my leagues. Uh stings, It stings, and I and I can't buy low on him either. So there's lots of talk about him not returning until November, but that's based on one like Twitter doctor that basically said that I think that I think he'll be back sooner. The Colts didn't put him on the Populist, so they

must be targeting something sooner than that. But regardless, the schedule once he comes back is what makes me say it's not worth trading for him. He's got Jacksonville since e Houston, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Jacksonville again, then Buffalo and Denver near the end of the season. Jacksonville right now is the number one defense against posing quarterbacks, Pittsburgh is number two, Buffalo is number three. So that's four of the seven opponents when he comes out of this. If he comes

out of this healthy, that are really really good. And then Denver in Week fifteen in the fantasy playoffs, so he might not even be usable in you could argue five of the games even after he comes back healthy. So uh, yeah, I'm not gonna go by low on Okay, Brian. Yeah, if you somehow came back next week and got to face the forty Niners and then the Titans in the following week, I'd be in on buying and then flipping

him immediately after those first two games. But as CP said, he's he's not gonna be back for the next the next two games, so and then the schedule's brutal after if he even comes back. So no, I'm not buying low either. What people always forget is the opportunity cost of using a roster spot on a useless guy for four or five weeks, which is probably how long he's

out there. That roster spot could be a budding young star, somebody that's gonna flash, or somebody's gonna help you one week at a time as you flipped streamer to streamer on that spot. There's real opportunity costs with that lost spot that you've got on Andrew Luck and for that reason, no, you should not be buying low. Just be glad you didn't invest. Sorry. CP. The Crust Church Challenge winner in

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our friends at the Brewery. Go ahead. Sorry. In my defense, most of the league's are dynasty leagues in which I have anderlock. That is, so let's be clear, you can drop underlock. I mean there's no, if in season long, you can just drop him out right right now. One quarterback leagues, especially even particularly one quarterback leagues. Uh, Steelers take on the Baltimore Ravens. Let's start on the seat

Steeler side of the ball. Antonio Brown and Levy on Bell are obvious as let's go to the rest of the group. Ben Roethlisberger is on the road, so you know the deal. He's We've been saying this for two years now, one touchdown coming, because that's what he gives you on the road over the past three seasons on average, particularly in Baltimore where he struggled. His average game over the last four years in Baltimore a modest two hundred

forty eight passing yards and one touchdown. That's it, now realized. The Ravens secondary just ignominiously got scorched by Blake Bortles. But we'll assume it was the jet leg or the Scotch eggs or the blood pudding or something that said. Do you buy into the idea that they'll be you know, they're hopping mad now and they're they're they're gonna come out especially strong in this game. No, I think that's stupid. I don't. I don't buy that stuff at all. I

really don't mark Tavis Bryant to see. Also, you know the bit on Briant. It's all or nothing with Brian to this point. Nothing is winning by a two to one margin in the three games. Bryant draws a Ravens defense that ranks seventh and receptions allowed third and touchdowns allowed to wide receivers. And on the plus side, Brian has scored four touchdowns in three career meetings with Baltimore, so he has had a measure of success here. Jesse James, same deal. He's a low volume guy. If he doesn't

get your touchdown, you get nothing. Baltimore has a bottom five ranking and receiving yards allowed and touchdown surrendered to opposing tight ends. And we saw what Mercedes Louis did to Baltimore last week, so he gets a C grade. Let's go to the Baltimore side where Alex Collins Brian was your take a chance on me running back. I've

got a C grade on Bunk Alan. Alan has five receptions in each of the last two games, and that might be the floor this week as Pittsburgh has just gave up twelve receptions to Chicago's running backs last week. So you figure Alan sitting on a bigger game than that. Steelers have allowed four different backs to get four receptions in a game, and he doesn't have to fight for targets through the air from Terence West or Alex Collins. Those guys don't catch balls. I've got Terrence West on

the bench. He's been bad, his offensive lines and shambles. Alex Collins is stealing a bunch of his carries. He had just six and eight carries the past two weeks. He's a borderline drop guy off your roster, and the entire passing game for Baltimore is on the bench. They are dead last in passing attempts, they are dead last in passing completions, dead last passing yards per game, and

averaging barely one passing touchdown per game. That's your Baltimore Ravens passing quote attack unquote, and Pitts is not a get well opponent. Flacco's average one touchdown pass over his last ten games against the Steelers and Pittsburgh currently ranks number two against the past. Every member of the Ravens passing game is on the bench when we come back. Plenty more matchups to go, including the New York Giants and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Is this this is your

last great chance to start Jacky's Rogers? Is it going to be a good one? Find out when we come back your distinctive Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Welcome back to the show Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Paul Church and Christian Peterson, Brian Johnson with you. Let's dive right back into the matchup. So we go to our giant's desk and oh wait, no, no, no, Christian with the are Giants to match up there? You'll bring a level of sanity to the Giants matchup. Giant. Appreciate

Brian every week. A grade. Paul Perkins, A grade PAULA check the tape. Okay, Giants take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Let's start on the on the Giants side, there's no running back to even talk about here. Let's go to the patching game. Yeah, I've got an A grade on Eli Manning not the Giants desk um Eli had three and sixty six yards and three touchdowns last week, busted out of his slump in a big way. Tampa's defense. There may not be a worse passing defense in the

NFL right now. They let Mike both Mike Glennon and case Keenum throw for more than three hundred yards. That is saying something. So it's an easy a for Eli Manning here. As with Odell Beckham, he has to be the consensus number one wide receiver in fantasy football this week. Two touchdowns last week, played eighty percent of the snaps. He's looking healthier and healthier. Tampa Bay secondary just allowed two seventy one yards and two touchdowns to the combo

Stefan Diggs and Adam Theeland last week. They probably are getting corner Brent Grimes back this week and that will help them, but they are still really banged up. Two of their two of their starting linebackers and they're starting safety are out of this game, so they're not just bad, they are also injured. So Beckham is going to go off here. He's an a Brandon Marshall was here to take a chance on me, guy. I agree, he should be in your lineup if you've got him. Same with

Sterling Shepherd. Shepherd had the big game last week with d and thirty three yards in a touchdown, and there's uh They're gonna be able to pass all over this team. Uh and even Evan, even Evan Ingram can be in there. He's averaging four catches for forty six yards through the first three games. Bucks were pretty good against tight ends last year and have only allowed seven catches and forty two yards to tight ends in the first two games,

probably because wide receivers their way. But I think you can start everybody in this passing game, and then you can start nobody in the running game. Paul Perkins garbage two point one yards per carry per carry, Orleans Darkwa may not even play, Shane Vereen may not even plu. Maybe that gives us a chance for Wayne Gallman, the rookie. We get to see him a little bit. But Tampa's

I can't wait. Tampa's run defense is very good. They allowed two points seven yards per carrie held Jordan Howard to seven yards on nine car Yeah, there's just nothing to see here in the running game. Let's go to the other side of this matchup, which is a tricky one for the Bucks. Um I have I have a bench grade on Jamis Winston here. The Giants defense is legit. They've held opposing passers to just eighty nine yards per game held Matthew Stafford to Carson Wentz to one seventy six.

Winston had good stats last week in garbage time, but he looked awful. He's missing wide receivers, he's inaccurate, So I gotta put Winston on the bench here. I do have a starting grade on Mike Evans just to be though. Um. He sort of survived his matchup with Xavier Rhodes last week. He thought it was much better than it actually was.

He did he was held to sixty seven yards. But it doesn't get much easier this week against Generas Jenkins, who's Pro Football Focus is number nine rated quarterback this far. So other tough matchup for Mike Evans, but he's good enough that you play him regardless of the matchup. And I've got Sean Jackson on the bench. He gotta He got a long touchdown last week as he's wont to do, and he'll probably disappear this week as he's wont to

do as well. So the matchup just isn't good enough for me to risk it with de Sean Jackson here, you're benching the tight ends. There's not much to see there well, I guess Cameron Bright you could bring you could bring in there, but I don't know Cameron Brad the problem. Howard. The matchup is okay, but I just don't like that split song going elsewhere. Uh. And let's talk about Jock Wiz Rogers. You talked about him earlier.

The Bucks they had to a band in the run last week, so Rogers didn't get much of a chance. He's averaging just three point four yards per carry in the two games, but the Giants are allowing hundred and thirty rushing yards per game this year. Eagles running back scored twice against them last week, so really, I think the way to move the ball against this elite passing defenses is on the ground. So I think Rogers is gonna get enough touches here to Warren a starting grade.

But I gave him just to see alright. Philadelphia takes on the Los Angeles Chargers. Brian Art used Wendell Smallwood as my take a chance on me runner. But what do you think about like Garrett Blonde in this one? Do you can you safely put him? Well, I'm sure it's not safe, but do you recommend you have a starting grade on him. I got a desperation. See on Blonde who had twelve carries for sixty seven yards and a touchdown last week. Only just a good game, good

good line, only play. How he gets the bottom ranked Chargers run defense does He only played twenty two snaps, so he's not on the field the whole lot. He did get all three rushes from inside the five yard line last week, so he does have vulture potential. It's hard fire, almost like a that's like a velociraptor or something. All right there. In the passing game, Carson Wentz gets a b Winza's top three yards and door throwing multiple

touchdowns in five of his last six road games. The Chargers, I almost said Clippers again, have allowed multiple passing touchdowns in two of three games. So two fifty yards and two touchdowns seems like a safe floor for wins. On Sunday, I'll give Alicean Jeffrey a B borderline a here corner. Jason Rhett is done zo and that's the primary reason the Chargers have allowed the most wide receiver touchdowns so

far this year. Jeffrey's top six and targets hasn't blown up the box score in two or three games, but he's faced faced Josh Norman and the Giants, so this will be a much better matchup for him. I'll give Zach Ertz a B as well. Uh. He leads all tight ends and targets catches and yards. The Chargers just held Zach Travis Kelsey to one catch for one yard last week, so that's my little bit of nerves there.

But he still gotta rollout earths with some confidence. And UH that's it for Philly over to l A. Melvin Gordon gonna give him a B. It was a full participant on Friday and is expected to play with that knee injury. Uh. The Giants running backs understandably wet the bed against Philly last week, but Kareem Hunt and the combo of Rob Kelly and Chris Thompson both fared well against the Eagles. Gordon should match that volume if he

stays healthy. Uh. Keenan Allen he gets an A this week. UH. Target and catch totals have been that of a solid wide receiver too so far this year, but he has wide receiver one potential in this one. Uh. Keenan Allen should have his way with either Patrick Robinson or Jalen

Mills at the cornerback position for Philly. The Giants Whiteouts just nearly racked up three hundred yards against the Eagles with three touches in one quarter basically so uh And for that reason, Tyrell Williams and Travis Benjamin are both startable. I'll give him a C C grade. I was admittedly much higher on Williams in the preseason, but Benjamin has posted better numbers so far, and this is a great matchup for both, so they're both startable. Uh. Not a

great matchup for Hunter Henry or Antonio Gates. Henry had zero targets for the second time last week. Yeah, and Gates is just flat out old. Philly is historically bad matchup for tight ends, so I have both of those guys on the bench. But because of the great matchup for the wide receivers, I'll give Philip Rivers a B. He was brutal last week against the Chiefs. Eli just carved up the Eagles, and he and Rivers are forever intertwined, so Rivers canna probably do the same here as well.

San Francisco takes on the Arizona Cardinals A C grade on Carlos Hide averaging over one hundred total yards per game, but tough, tough test against the Cardinals defense that hasn't allowed a running back to go over one hundred total yards in eleven straight games and holding opposing runners to

three point one yards per carry. They're great through the air, to they're allowing the fourth fewest running back receiving yards and Hide was held to one yard per carry in his most recent matchup with Arizona at the end of last year, which was in and that game was in Arizona, like this game is so a lot of caution on Carlos Hide here, Let's go to the passing game. Brian Hoyer is a see his Week three explosion against the Rams allowed him to surpass his two game totals from

weeks one and two. But the and the Arizona secondary is kind of sneaky leaky. Going back to last year, half of the last six quarterbacks they faced have thrown four tough down passes, four sneaky leaky, and they're merely Cardinals are merely middle of the pass the middle of the pack and passing yards allowed. So Holier does get a starting grade in this one. So does Pierre Garson on pace for one hundred thirty eight targets, and this week he's gonna drop Patrick Peterson, which will make things

pretty tough. But really, are the Niners gonna uncork a dozen passes at Trent Taylor and Marky's Goodwin? Probably not so? And Peterson, by the way, he ranks cornerback forty by Pro Football Focus, maybe he's not an absolute shutdown. Can't start anybody against him. Guy Pierre Garson keeps a startable

grade at see. And then your flyer is Marquis Goodwin, who's gonna draw Justin Bethel, who's been straight up bad Kenny Golladay killed him in the opener, and Howler may choose to avoid Patrick Peterson a fair mountain this game, and then you'd go to Marquise Goodwin. Let's go to the Arizona side. Larry Fitzgerald Bonker's game last week and

another potentially big one coming. He's got thirty four targets, which puts him on pace for almost two hundred targets on the season, which would be like a record or something. This week, he takes on a San Francisco defense that just allowed Sammy Watkins and Robert Woods to run rough shot all all over them, and Fitzgerald's gonna draw slack

corner Kwan Williams, who is dreadful. He ranks among cornerbacks by Pro Football Focus, and for some reason, the Niners just extended him three games into his career with the Niners. After being cast aside by the Browns, the Niners decided to extend Kwan Williams the number nine cornerback. Go figure, that's it's a very Niners thing to do. Let's go. Let's stay with the passing game. Carson Palmer gets a

B and two full games without David Johnson. The Cardinals have asked Carson Palmer to carry the offense, and what's he's done. Three hundred thirty two yards and three hundred twenty five yards real quick, most targets in the season. Rob Moore of the Cardinals. Wow, really awesome, thank you. That will be the case this week is well, because the Cardinals runners stink and the Niners have evolved into

a decent run defense. They're go only giving up three point five yards per carry, full yard better than last year's version. Another high volume game coming from Palmer against the past defense that just allowed a big game to Jared Goff and allowed Cam Newton to throw his only touchdowns of the year. J J. Nelson gets a C grade. Should be healthier than last week. But John Brown returns and that muddies the water some. The Cardinals can't run

the ball. Nelson has scored in six of the past eight games going back to last year, so I think just through sheer volume here, Nelson remains startable. I'm keeping the two Browns on the bench because I think they kind of neutralize each other a bit here, and you can't start any of the Cardinals running backs, including the undead corpse of the tap dancing Nancy. Arizona ranks twenty nine in rushing attempts, thirty one in yards per rushing attempt,

thirty feet in rushing yards per game. Next matchup is the Oakland Raiders at the Denver Broncos. Raiders coming off a clunker and now they go to Denver. Who do you who can you start in this game? Nobody confidently on the Raiders side. I barely have a starting grade on car but I could certainly see benching him. In five career games against the Broncos, he's thrown for more than two yards just once. He's been held to one or zero touchdown passes three times in those five games.

Maybe there's a little bit of hope in the fact that the Broncos have already given up seven touchdown passes this year to Philip Rivers, Dak Prescott, and Tyrod Taylor. So that's why I gave him a C level grade here. However, he may be missing Michael Crabtree, who sat out practice on Friday with a chess injury. He's now questionable, but if if um if Crabtree plays. He's never exceeded five catches or fifty four yards in a game against Denver, and we know the elite level corners here, So just

a C grade. Same with Amari Cooper, who is really struggling this year, just three point three catches for thirty three yards per game in three games. He's never exceeded six catches or fifty six yards in a game against Denver, So I could you could argue to put all these guys on the bench. Same with Marshawn Lynn. Sorry, Church, they are this year. Last year they actually weren't that

they were. They were sneaky leaky last year, but this year they've really clamped count down held Melvin Gordon to fifty four yards on eighteen carries, Ezeki eight yards on nine carries. Sean McCoy they shut down. So I've got Lynch on the bench. On the other side. Some starters here, Trevor Simeon. I've actually got a start in grade here. He threw two touchdown passes in each of his two

matchups with Oakland last year. The Raiders just gave up three and sixty five yards and three touchdowns to Kirk Cousins. So you can move the ball through the air. That brings Emmanuel Sanders and to Marius Thomas into the mix here. But just as C level grade, Sanders has not scored in four straight games against the Raiders, Thomas didn't top five catches or fifty six yards in either of last year's matchup against Oakland, and weird fact, has only scored

in one of his twelve career matchups with Oakland. Wow, kind of bizarre. So those guys are starters, but just barely. Uh. And then C. J. Anderson, I do have a good starting grade on and be here. The Raiders are decent against the run. They hold acts to less than four yards per carry in ninety three yards per game. But Anderson is, yeah, he did well last year against them in Week seventeen. Actually he didn't. The Broncos did. The Broncos backs dropped a hundred and ninety nine combined rushing

and receiving artage. He was probably not two touchdowns on them when he was injured. But yeah, he's gonna be back in the mix here in a home game where they're favorite. He's going to get back up into the twenty carry range as opposed to the eight carries that he had last week. Alright, that wraps up this segment. Final segment coming up, premature speculation. Who are three guys you can pick up now that everybody's gonna be trying

to pick up next week? We'll tell you when we come back our final set of matchups and lightning round all in the final segment. You're listening to Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchi and Brian Johnson Christian Peterson with you a bit. We like to call premature speculation. Three guys that you could pick up now that we think will be hot waiver wire editions in a couple of days after Sunday's games,

we begin with Christian Peterson. Yeah, I mentioned this guy already. It's Wayne Gallman, the running back for the Giants. He's a rookie who hasn't even been active yet, but he maybe this week. With Orleans Dark one dinged up, we know Paul Perkins is not the answer at this point. No, we know Shane Vereen is at best the third down guy. Orleans Dark was not the answer either, So I think Golman is gonna get a chance this week. If he looks even decently good, I think there's a chance he

takes over for Paul Perkins. So uh yeah, Wayne Golman, go get him right now before he becomes the lead back for the Giants. All right, I'm going Will Fuller, wide receiver for the Texans, should make his return this week. Uh. DeAndre Hopkins has been targeted thirty seven times so far, Braxton Miller and Bruce Ellington have combined for seventeen targets and the wide receivers wide receiver position, so Houston. Houston desperately needs someone to step up. Why not their first

round pick from last year? After this week, he has the Browns and the Colts on the schedule, will fuller go grab him now? All right, My premature speculation guy is Corey Clement because apparently, apparently you can only have Philadelphia runners that have that have accents on the wrong syllable.

Corey Clement is my guy to Philadelphi running backs already on injured reserve le Garrett Blonde has a precarious hold on the starting job, and rookie Corey Clement from Wisconsin will have some kind of have some opportunities to show what he showed last week twenty our touchdown run last week, He'll have some opportunities to show you can do on the ground over the course of the next couple of weeks. Let's go to our final two matchups, Indianapolis Colts taking

on the Seattle Seahawks. Colts offense looked a lot better last week, but it all comes to a screeching halt in Seattle. Here it does. But I think there's some guys you can play here, starting with Frank Or. I'll give him a B borderline C plus Seattle. Surprisingly, he's dead last and yards were carried a running back generous five point three. He and Marlon matt Is ruled has been ruled out for this game as well, So Frank Gore is startable. I'm gonna still start t Y Hilton.

I own him in a few leagues. I'm gonna roll him out there. I'm giving him a B. Shaquil not Shaquille. I think it's Shaquill. There's no e Chaquill. Griffin has

outperformed Richards Sherman so far at the cornerback position. Sherman might be the softer matchup at this point, but Jordy Matthew Sordy Jordan's Jordy Nelson and Richard Matthews both hit eighty yards in a touchdown against Seattle, and for what it's worth, t Y Hilton had five catches for a hundred forty yards and two touchdowns against Seattle in the year the Legion of Boom was really often popping and

they were Super Bowl. So there you go. I am Benjing Dante Dante Moncrief, though I don't even want to talk about him until Andrew Luck comes back. Jack Doyle gets a c H desperationcy huge dud against Cleveland last week. But Seattle is allowing more than five catches and sixty yards to non San Francisco tight ends and the Coals will likely be chasing points, so you might use Doyle if you're in a pinch. And my take com quarterback from last week, Jakobe Pricett is on the bench for

this over to the Seahawks. Russell Wilson gets an a. Hopefully you did not drop him like charge recommended last week. Jared Goff and Carson Bomber are both top three hundred passing yards against the Colts, and Deshaun Kaiser just rolled up two and eight all purpose yards and three touchdowns, so Wilson's in a great spot. Doug Baldwin, Oh, he's dicey um. I'll give him a B if he plays, or or a B if you have other Seattle wide receivers. But he's a real dicey play here. He practiced on

Friday without any setbacks to the groin injury. But this is a Sunday night game. Uh. If you don't have Tyler Lockett or Paul richardson the play here, and if you're going to roll out Baldwin is grabb Kamar Aiken indie slot receiver as insurance slot is the way to attack the Seahawks. So if you're very desperate and you're banking on Baldwin. Have a can uh in line as your insurance policy. There, I just mentioned Richardson. Unlock it. Richardson gets to see whether Baldwin plays or not. Lock

It gets to see if Baldwin sits. This is just a great matchup. Even though Vonte Davis is making his return. It doesn't scare me enough to bench these guys. I'm giving Jimmy Graham and a. The Colts are ranked twenty

six against tight ends by Football Outsiders. Graham caught a seven, caught seven of eleven targets for seventy two yards last week, and I can see very similar numbers here with at least one touchdown on Sunday night, and Chris Carson running back gets a B. He's the clear cut leader of that backfield in the game. Script should favor him in the second half year. Chris Carson dirt cheap on fan Ball this week. Yeah, he is dirt chief, and I've got him as like my number twelve running back this week.

I love Carson this week, and I think there's uh, well, we'll find out how he does. I think the passing game, I think it's gonna be a run I think it's gonna be a run oriented game plan for Seattle in this one, either because they've got a lead and they're just keeping it or just because the path of least resistance goes that way. Washington takes on the Kansas City Chiefs. I'm gonna start with the passing game for the Washington Redskins or Jamison Crowder is my favorite among the wide

receivers going up against the Chiefs defense. It ranks four against the past. Crowder works from the slot. That means he's gonna match up against the dreadful Philip Gaines, a guy who we successfully targeted many slot receivers against last year. We're going back to that well. Gains right now ranks one eight among cornerbacks by Pro Football Focus. Crowder has done very little this year, a great opportunity to dust him off. Who else has done very little? Terrell Prior

nothing this year. But here's your Mount's back opportunity. Here's why. He plays the majority of his snaps on the left side of the offense, which means he's going to avoid Marcus Peters, who plays only on the right side of the offense. He's going to draw prior is going to draw Terrence Mitchell Pro Football focuses eighty three ranked cornerback. They're gonna leave Ryan Grant out to dry on Marcus Peters in this game on the right hand side. So I like Crowder at a B level. I like prior

to sea level. Kirk Cousins also a see downright surgical last week in his dissection of the Raiders, but a a tougher matchup this week. And if last week's any indication that the Chief seemed to have recovered somewhat from the loss of Eric Berry. Here in cousins last seven road games, he's tally three yards and or multiple touchdowns six times. So I like Cousins, but I don't see explosive game coming. Will give him a C borderline B grade. Uh, and let's go to the oh, Jordan read, we should

mention this. So this is the Monday night game. We got all kinds of problems over the place. Don't know if Rob Kelly is gonna go. It's a Monday night game. We're not gonna know by Sunday at noon. Jordan Reid, same deal. It's we're not gonna know if he's gonna start or not. You're gonna have to assume that you're not gonna start him, and even if you do, he's not giving us much anyway. And the Chiefs have held tight and scoreless to end um and just to average

three catches per game. So this is not a good line a matchup anyway for Jordan Reeds to keep him on the bench, have v D. If you've you've got Jordan read, you need VD uh. Chris Thompson has been a godsend for fantasy owners for sure, but this is tricky. Should do? Do you have you Thompson now? Is the Redskins premiere running back or or his four touchdowns a fluke considering he's just getting nine touches per game? That's it?

And then Jake Jake Gruden this week comes out and says Rob Kelly is gonna be their number one lead dog runner. So put all that in a blend, or will you uh? If Kelly is out, I'll bump Thompson from a C to a B. But we're not. Again, you're not gonna know until Monday, so it doesn't help you a lot in advance. The Chiefs of stymy to elite pass catching backs already this year, they held James White and Darren Sprouls to thirty yards each. So I

don't love Chris Thompson. I'm giving I'm giving him a C based on what he's done in the past, but I don't like this matchup. And if Rob Kelly goes I'm particularly nervous. Let's go to the Kansas City side. Kareem Hunt faces a Washington run defense that ranks number two, allowing just fifty four yards per game. They just held the Raiders running backs as a unit to twenty two

rushing yards. That's it. Still, it's Kareem Hunt. You're gonna start him no matter what, and he could find fantasy points via the air, where the Redskins have allowed two touchdowns to runners. Travis Kelsey gets an A grade here. The Redskins have surrendered the second most tight end receptions the third most tight end yards last year, and they've

picked up right where they left off. They've already given up big games of Zach Ertz, Gerald every Writ and Jared Cook, all big numbers in the first three weeks. I think Kelsey bounces back from last week's ho Hun performance. Tyreek Hill also in a the Redskins having a lot more than three eight yards to receiver since Week one.

But I like this matchup a lot because he should be able to avoid Josh Norman, who plays nine percent of his snaps on one side of the field, and he'll play seventy of his snaps on the other side of the field. So that puts Tyreek Hill on Bashot Breland, who ranked sixty nine among cornerbacks by Pro Football Focus. And Tyreek Hill might be the fastest player in the NFL, and Brilon might be the slowest cornerback in the NFL. He had a combined time of a four six eight forty.

That's terrible. Then there's Alex Smith. If I've got a grades on Kelsey and Hill, I like Alex Smith. This is a good opportunity here for Alex Smith because I like Kelsey and Hill. Raiders have been a competent passing defense, but not an extraordinary one. And he's got to be there cheap on fan ball too. You run like a four six seven, don't you? Uh? Four six seven? I'm a little hair fast. I mean I still got wheels. Alex Smith is forever dirt cheap. He's forever dirt yeap. Yes, yeah,

absolutely this is a good opportunity to go play Alex Smith. No, I'm with you. Yeah. We only have about a minute and a a half for calls. Unfortunately, we'll do our very best. You begin with joy, Thank you for your patience. Joy, Hey, no worries. You know what I'm actually calling for my daughter next cover festival cost and I doubt you's up today. So the question is Cam Newton's your quarterback or Bean rockls? Further,

who would you play? Christian Church? I think you had a higher grade on it and than you did on Roethlisberg. He's on the road. Yeah, go Cam Newton. Yeah, how about that bothering right there? Mother calling in for daughter? Who's that's awesome? Kent, You're next, Kent, Kent, Pete, you are next? Hello? Do you're true at Diggs and McCoy for Antonio Brown or Smallwood? Oh, Digs and McCoy for Brown and Smallwood. That's too much. I'd rather have Diggs

and McCloy to barely THEO. Bob your next. Travis Kelsey or Emmanuel Sander Kelsey has got the A from charge. That's what's resonating in my mind. Yeah, I like Sanders two in this game, But I think I take Kelsey to Austin. Austin. You're next, Hello, Miller or Killer or Cooper? Uh, that's Lamar Mar Miller and and and don't want anything to do with Cooper against We'll go, We'll go Miller here, Seth,

you're next. I've probably send it you on Twitter. But Adonar and Larry Gerald, you want to give me Tarik Cohen and Michael Thomas in an Empire league? Say it again? That's starting to say the trade again to Seth. He wants he wants me to give up Levy on Bell and Larry Fitzgerald. And you want to give me Tarik Cohen and Michael Thomas in an Empire League. It's Thomas. If you're not completing right now, like I would consider it, but I need a little bit more than that. What

happens when Drew Brees retires? Ask yourself that in an Empire League? And that's well, and then the other thing. And I'm wondering the way in but maybe on Twitter later, but you put more stock on the box. You've only on the field for Lady on Bell. Got yeah, Seth, we got Seth ro up against the clock. I'm sorry Uh. If you missed that part of the show, check out the podcast most of you did. Tony's gonna have that

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