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or the other night. Yeah, we watched the Thursday night. We will try to touch on some of the key elements from that game a little bit later on, but most of our time is focused on what we expect to happen on Sunday and Monday, breaking down those games fantasy style. We'll also have three tough questions. Take a chance on me gives you nine players not normally and you're starting line up, and the way that the injuries have gone down here in week one, you're gonna need

some of these guys. Also premature speculation near the end of the show. That's the segment in which we identify the players everybody else is going to be trying to pick up next week, but they're already on your squad because you're working a week ahead with premature speculation. We begin with our first matchup of the day, which is Seattle in Atlanta. Matt, Yeah, this is a This is a two teams that met each other last season, and I think that we're going to have a closer game

than people expect. What how do you see this game shaking out? Well, they know each other pretty well, Dan Quinn obviously former defensive coordinator for the Seahawks. Um, let's start on the Seattle side, and I'm gonna give Chris Carson an A grade right off the bat. Last year against the Falcons, Carson rushed twenty times for nine d R in a score. There's been a little talking camp about the hip injury that knocked him out at the end of the season, but I think he's okay. It

looks like he's ready to go. Uh and I'm not afraid of DJ Dallas or Carlos Hide eating into his bell cow status. He had eight games of twenty plus carries in his final eleven games last year, so he's ready to go. Russell Wilson giving him a solid A

grade as well. Former Seahawks defensive coordinator Dan Quinn has held Russ somewhat in check in his time in Atlanta, as his high water mark against dan Quinn's Falcons has been two seventy yards, but he's only and he's only throwing six touchdown passes in four matchups against the Falcons. But last year in the Week eight matchup, Russ only through the ball twenty times and still registered to scores. And there's all this talking camp like they're gonna let

him loose this year. Brian Schottenheimer wants to get him going right away. I I believe it there. They want him to throw this year. That would be really great. Uh. For that reason, Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf are both getting b gray. It's Lockett had six for one in the matchup last year, only had three. D K only had three catches and thirteen yards against Atlanta last year, but two of them went for scores. So he's a good red zone threat. Maybe showing Julio a little bit

of how to catch a ball in the end zone there. Uh, and Locket will draw darkeys Dinard in the slot, while Metcalf will see a combo of rookie A J. Terrell who is limited in practice with a hamstring, and Isaiah Oliver, who's like their fourth string corner because Kendall Sheffield looks like he's out for the game, and Greg Olsen I have him on the bench. He has a lot of history against the Falcons, but it's not positive. His last

touchdown reception was in two thousand sixteen. Before that, you have to go back to two thousand thirteen, and he plays the Falcons twice a year, so, uh, that was Yeah, that's one scoreing eight games against the Falcons. So the Falcons are the most middle of the pack tight end defense and they seem to have Olson's number. Will dis Lee was just added to the injury report on Friday, but he still may go. That kind of throws a wrench in greg Olsen's touchdown catching ability On the Atlanta side.

Todd Gurley, Uh, he gets a B. He's probably as healthy as he's going to be a not now when, so you gotta start him. The Seahawks have some numbers that play in his favor. They allowed the second most rushing touchdowns in the league last year and the fourth most receiving yards the running back position, both things that Gurley excels at Yeah, and didn't do a lot to change their front seven in the off season. Yeah, that's exactly true, Matt Ryan. I'm giving a solid B grade too.

I think you probably have him a little bit higher in your ranking. Start top five. Has thrown for three yards in five of his last seven and eleven of his last sixteen. His problem is he through for multiple scores in a game only nine times the last season. Yeah. Wait, yeah, wait, yeah, I should have signaled what am I doing here with the nine signals both hands. If you don't here, let me put all my hands up. In year, Uh, the front seven for Seattle certainly in question after losing most

of the members of those rooms. They did add Jamal Adams, Quintin Dunbar to Shot Griffin, and Quandre Digs to form a very formidable secondary. But Ryan should have a ton of time to throw, and he's got the receivers to do it. Julio went ten for one fifty two against Seattle last year. He's in A grade. Calvin Ridley's A B had four for seventy in the contest last year, even though they only allowed a hundred and fifty five yards per game to the wide receiver position. Ryan's gonna

have so much time to get Ridley open in this game. Uh. And then finally, Hayden Hurst. Everybody seems to just think that he's going to fill into Austin Hooper's role. Mostly I do. I do too. I've given him a solid B grade. Uh. Seven and a half targets for Hooper last year, I think those all go to Hurst, And if he gets seven and a half targets, he's got a great shot against one of the worst tight end

defenses in the league last year. The Seahawks allowed six receptions and sixty nine yards per game to the position last year. Let's is that it? That's it? Okay, Let's go to the Jets and the Buffalo Bills. This is um The Jets one six of the last eight games last year, but they feel like decided underdogs here, and it feels like these are two organizations going out in opposite directions, and I'm pretty optimistic about my Buffalo Bells.

He had decided might be an understatement. We'll start with the Jets and Levy on Bell, I'm going to be grudgingly give him a C. And that's because I don't want to give him a B. I don't want to be in an E and an N and a C and H. But I'm gonna say start uh Levon Bell to see thirty three carries for a hundred and one yards against Buffalo last year, not too bad? Right wrong?

Because that's across two games, right Bell? He did total webbing catches for six eight yards, just one shy matt one touchdown receiving, and fantasy owners need levy On Bell to catch the ball to live up to his a DP, which isn't very bloated to begin with. But Buffalo only allowed two receiving touchdowns to running backs last year. Only two running backs were able to top fifty receiving yards against them, So very off seat for Levan Bell. If Yon Bell has a good game at all the season,

are you just in cell mode? Because I feel like I just don't want any part of it. I would love it if he has a good game here to just well, I don't have I have zero shares me too, But you know, if I had him in any league, this would be any Somehow, somehow pops off in one game, We're to everybody, I'm almost him to distart Franco over him. In revenge game scenario, Frank your one of many to

come onto. Every week is a revenge game for Frank or onto the and every day is probably a birthday game too, But anyway, onto the receiver's Rashad Perriman firmly on the bench and this one some injury concerns earlier in the week, but he will be good to go, which I guess is good news for him, but not really because he'll be shadowed by trade Vious White. That's basically a deal breaker in the fantasy football community. He's

on the bench, but Jamison Crowder is not. I'm giving him a be like I've been banging the drum for since March, one of the most trusted commodities based on his a DP in my opinion, Week one versus Buffalo last year seventeen targets, fourteen catches for nine yards, seventeen targets in one game and week seventeen ten targets for

eight sixty six and a touchdown. Just get the average of those two and that's a safe four for Crowder and this one he's gonna be a safety blanket for Sam donald Um, who will get to in a minute. Chris Herndon, the one Denzel Mims by the way ruled out. It might go on, I r you weren't gonna start him anyway. You might have started Chris Herndon, but Buffalo only allowed five tight end touchdowns last season. Only two

tight ends were able to crack sixty yards. The Jets tight ends, not Chris Herndon, by the way, combined for six catches forty two yards across two games. So benching Herndon this week, but keep him on your roster. Uh, don't, don't drop him. Kee him on your bench. And then Sam Donald easily on the bench toss a touchdown in each game last year, but failed the top two yards against Buffalo. I think it's my bottom rated quarterback this week. Now onto your boy charge and the Buffalo bill Zack

moss Y, Yes, what come on? You can't against the Jets. I'm giving him a C. You're really give him an A B B sounds. Jets were tough against the run last year, only allowing ten rushing touchdown. You guys can't see churches face right now. It literally went from so happy too so sad. I wanted I wanted a big coming out party for moss but I don't know if it's coming this week. The Jets only allowed ten rushing

touchdowns and running backs last year. Eight of those ten came in the first seven games, so the second half of the season they were very tough against the run. Um. Buffalo backs did nothing against the Jets last year, totally a hundred and thirty six rushing yards in two games. The Jets did lose Jamal Adams, strong safety who graded top twelve amongst safeties by ProFootball Focus in a rush coverage. But it's just a rookie in his first game against

tough run defense. Lamarin Miller now on board as well. That's a joke. But I'll say, here's here's your angle, AAMA, and it is. It's a tough matchup. The Jets are really good run. It's the one thing the Jets do wells run defense. Zack Moss. When when Buffalo gets ahead, buy a bunch of half and they are running out the game in the second half through sheer repetition, Zack Moss, I think ultimately ends up with a decent line and any of the goal line carries going to Zack Moss

almost definitely. And that's why I have Devin Singletary on the bench for this one. He has had an awful awful preseason or a training camp. I should say, we'll not see work in the red zone where it counts. I think I'd rather start a guy like Tony Pollard over Devin Singletary this week. Singletary only played in the Week one matchup last season. He was serviceable totally ninety eight combo yards with five catches, but that's likely his ceiling in this one. I think humok elsewhere running back

he's on the bench. Stefon Digs is not though by far the best Buffalo wide receiver they have had in a long time, especially during Josh Allen's tenure. The loss of the aforementioned Jamal Adams is huge for the Jet secondary, who allowed twenty wide receiver touchdowns last season. Brian Pool is a good corner for the Jets, but he's not a blocker. To start Diggs this week, do it with confidence, and I'd say the Stanford John Brown, but only at a B level. Brown had seven catches for yards and

a touchdown in the first meeting between these two. He didn't miss the Week seventeen meeting, but again, this feels like a Josh Allen game. Will talk to him in the second, but Brown and Digs fire him at big time cold cold Beasley and Dawson Knox can't go there yet. We'll talk about them in future weeks, I'm sure, but

they're on the bench. And then Josh Allen just mentioned him wasn't needed in the Week seventeen matchup, but he had two fifty four and one passing and thirty eight rushing yards and a touch it on the ground in Week one. But this is this is an all new Buffalo team and I'm excited to watch this game and Josh Allen fire him up. He's the top five quarterback potential this week. Yeah, that's about where I've got him

ranked as well. My first game in Chicago taking on Detroit in Detroit for Chicago, David Montgomery looks like he's gonna go, but there is danger here. Groin injuries and running backs are a bad combo where backwards maybe um joe straight over to the sideline and that down limp over to the sideline and sit down. You know, it's all the cutting and everything. It's those are tricky injuries.

They're easy to aggravate. So just no, even though he's likely to start here, you are incurring some risk if you put him in your starting lineup. Jet. The Lions were a middle of the pack run defense last year and added a handful of new pieces of the defense like Jamie Collins and Julian Akwara. But they don't figure to change that much. And I just have a C grade on David Montgomery and know that you've got some danger built into that as well. But Tarikoh and I

like a lot better. Be great for Tariko and regardless of David Montgomery, who figures to have a little extra workload. No wait, Montgomery's workhorse in this game. Lions allowed the most receiving touchdowns two runners last year and the third most receiving yards two runners. Cohen scored in one of the matchups last week last year. Or so, we like Tarik Cohen at a B level. Here um for our for our passing game, let's start with this guy. Are you sure he's not happy, because why yes, we've got

happy trombone. Give it to us. Come on, it's a starting B grade four this this can't be right. I gave Matt Ryan a B. You mistakenly gave him a B he mistakenly gave said, Trombones, you probably right, three straight games against the Lions with three touchdowns. I would never have guessed that if I had picked it up twice, like, you've got to be kidding me. Um, he cited two sources. I had to like, this can't be right. There's no team that Sad tromboon Sky has scored three touchdowns against

in three consecutive games. This is it. No Darius Slay any longer. Allen Robinson gets a B grade. You can expect similar volume to last year, when he saw at least seven targets in fourteen of sixteen games. And he's had a good track record here at eight six yards in both games against the Lions last year, scored in one of them. Darius Slays gone free agent Desma trufont is most often going to get. Robinson's coverage is just okay, and he gave up some monster games last year in Atlanta.

He plays one side of the fields. Robinson could just flipped to the other side and there he'll get rookie cornerback Jeffrey Okuda in his first ever NFL start. So be great, and Allen Robinson a C grade on Anthony Miller running from the slot. He's got a positive matchup against Justin Coleman. In his most recent Lions game, Anthony Miller blew up for career best numbers nine catches, one hundred forty yards. Let's go to the Lions side of this.

I like the Lions a lot more when we thought Kenny Golladay was gonna start, But now it looks very unlikely that that's gonna happen. We're gonna look at his monitor,

We're gonna monitor his hamstring injury here. But unless something changes, he has not expected to play, and quint has Sefat is your probable starter in his place, but you're not going to start him against a very Bears secondary and their pass rushes great when Matthew you know, when Matthew Stafford has time, he can poke some holes into the Bears. But getting time is not easy against the Bears. The Bears likely start second round rookie cornerback Jalen Johnson and

free agents. I need to Shaun Gibson. Those are He's a middling journeyman. So there are some holes in this secondary for Stafford. But without Kenny Golladay, I dropped them all the way down to a sea level in this game. He'll stellve Marvin Jones. Over the past three years when Stafford has been under center, Jones has averaged over six targets and top fifty yards and seventy of those games with Stafford, and Stafford's way better when Jones is on

the field too. Jones has at least fifty yards or a touchdown in the Lion's last seven meetings with the Bears, so he's startable. Let's go to t J. Hockenson, who I think it's a few extra passes his way with holiday out, and everybody expects a big improvement in the second year from t J. Hockenson. I think everybody does. The Bears allowed the fifth most receptions and tenth most yards the tight ends last year, and you may recall t J. Hockenson blew up in Week one last year,

whatever that might be worth. Now, let's go to the running game, which for the Lions, which is gonna be very frustrating, and I'm putting him all on the bench. Kerry On Johnson, DeAndre Swift, Adrian Peterson. DeAndre Swift is healthy enough that he's going to be active for this game, but he missed so much, he missed so much time in the preseason. I don't know that you can count on DeAndre Swift. Adrian Peterson's there, he tells reporters he's

got a big role in the game plan already. Carrie On Johnson's your probably starter, But when you get the ball near the stripe, probably not. Now it is a easier to run on the Bearson is to pass. But I just think the timeshare here doesn't bode very well. If you had to pick one, I'd take carry On Johnson, but they're all on the bench as a bench grade. A lot of stains in the Detroit franchise history. But is that true? Bisky track record? How embarrassing forcing Barry

Sanders and Kelvin Johnson and literally retirements. I don't know if three three touchdown games by r Whisky that that that rivals? It really does. Nobody in the right mind is starting Mitch dr Whisky. But the track records pretty good, and I don't like that little something there, little something. When we come back, take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in your starting line up, many of them are available on the waiver wire right now. We'll tell you who they are and who you can start

when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. Is time for take a Chance on Me, where we identify nine players that you would not normally start. I did not miss that song, now, really, I really did not either. It's such a sad version of our old take a chance I mean song. I forgot it exist for the worst spot. Now now I remember a sad reminder of what once was. Let's begin at the quarterback position. Brian, who's your taking a chance at me? Quarterback?

Short and sweet, the guy we've been banging the drum for all preseason, especially me, Gardner Minshew at home against the Colts. Minshew had twine and three against Indian week seventeen last season. He missed the first meeting, but even Nick Foles managed to post two yards and two passing touchdowns against the Colts as a Jaguar. Indie held the sixth highest opponent passing played percentage last year, allowed the fifth most passing touchdowns, and passing is all the Jaguars

are going to do on Sunday. I love Gardner, alright, everyone loves Gardner. It's been nine games since Cam Newton ran in a touchdown. It's been eight games since Cam Newton won a game. It's been four games since Cam Newton threw a touchdown. Yes, yeah, what's the roll with him now? The Dolphins had the worst d v o A in the league last year for a past defense and the fourth worst d v o as a run defense.

And I mentioned run defense because Cam Newton might be the best runner on the field for New England this weekend. Uh So the matchup is good and it wouldn't it just be like Bill Belichick to run up the score with his new toy against a former coordinator. Oh yeah,

Cam Newton. I'm taking Philip Rivers against Jacksonville. With Klais Campbell and Junique Gockway gone, the Jaguars pass rush is going to be a joke, and worried that their secondary might be quasi competent in the off season, they traded away a j Blue Ya just to make sure their quest for Trevor Lawrence Is does not hit his speed bump here. Rivers is going to enjoy the best pass blocking of his career in this game, and he'll have plenty of time to find t Y Hilton Paris Campbell

and newcomer Michael Pittman. They all have positive matchups against their respective cornerbacks. Let's go to the running back position. Brian James Robinson is he running back everyone is talking about in Jackson and I'm talking about Chris Thompson. The Colts surrendered the most running back receptions last season. Jack wars Jaguars backs total twenty three targets for seventeen catches, and their two meetings against the Colts that was mainly

Leonard four Nette, who was obviously gone. Chris Thompson is a Jay Gruden guy. We're gonna talk about how bad this matchup is for James Robinson soon. So Chris Thompson in PPR and Daily, Alright, he like, I think, I think the Pats are gonna keep the ball on the ground a lot in this game. So I got Rex burkehead as might take a chance on me runner. Don't get any wrong, Um, I think James White is gonna have a great game. But there's room for more than

one runner in this game. No team was run on more last season than the Miami Dolphins, with an average of twenty seven point run one rushing attempts per game. And opposing backs averaged just over a hundred and twenty one yards on the ground. James White only had six rushing attempts in a game twice last season. So who are the other twenty one rushing attempts gonna go to? Sony Michelle. No, he's injured, They're gonna ease him back.

According to uh According to Mike Reese, who's the New England Patriots beat writer who's really on all this stuff, they said that they're gonna ease Sony Michelle back in. I think we're gonna see a lot of Rex Burkhead

in this game. There was talk among the reporters of Burkehead getting a bunch of first team, first team reps and but that that would be a that would be a deep deep You have to really be struggling for a running back in Week one to go Rex Burkhead with the receivers that are all hurt, I love, Mike, take a chance. I mean running back Boston Scott going up against the Washington football team. Miles Sanders is ailing with the hamstring injuries, so there's extra snaps coming for

Boston Scott. Last season, Washington allowed the second most rushing attempts, the second most rushing yards, the fifth most receptions, and the fifth most receiving yards to opposing running backs. All of that bodes well for the pass catching prowess of Boston Scott. Over the last five games of the season, Scott averaged eighty yards per game and almost one touchdown per game, and he caught twenty four of twenty six targets. Boston Scott, I think he's going to finish with more

fantasy points than Miles Sanders. Let's go to the wide receiver position and or take a chance to me players they're beginning with Brian. Now, no one ever wants to stay in Jacksonville if you're there, except for me. I'm staying in Jacksonville. What are you doing back, baby? It's just back in the Jacks and I'm going Levisca Channault. Uh Now, I've read on rookie whiteouts all off season, so this makes perfect sense that my first take on

wide receiver is a rookie. But needless to say, the Colts are much tougher against the past than they are the run. They allowed eighteen wide receiver touchdowns last season, which was the fifth most secondary wide receivers were very productive in both games. Uh for Jacksonville against the Colts, holding fourteen catches for one thirty one yards, and d D. Westbrook has fallen way out of favor in Jacksonville. So it's Chennault and your guy charged Chris Connelly. But I

can't neither Chris Connelly tam not right now. So I'm just going with a gut feeling in a point chasing blow out leaviso Chnald, they're gonna try and get him the ball as in many ways possible as they focused on DJ Hark for the Colts. So there's my jag stack. Al right, Matt, you take a chance to me wide receiver. I've got Scotty Miller of the Tampa Bay Bucks because Mike Evans has been downgraded too doubtful and Scotty Miller

has been a favorite of Tom Brady and camp. According to Bucks beat writers, when Evans missed time at the tail end of last season, it was Miller who got the start alongside Brashad Perriman and Chris Godwin. And uh, I think that uh Miller is going to be in the game. He logged four catches for seventy one yards in last year's Week eleven matchup against the Saints, and it's a deep dart throw. But if you need an emergency backup for Mike Evans, this is your guy right here.

Ellen Lazard is your number two wide receiver in Green Bay, and he's all all, all preseason and training camp. He took all the the reps of the first team. He's locked into that role, and the Packers desperately need to establish some receiving option outside of Davante Adams. They'd love to put some early tape together of anybody who isn't Davante Adams having an impact. It's gonna be Alan Lazard. The Vikings lost last year's number one, number two, and

number three cornerbacks to free agency. In their place are a rotation of four guys who have combined for eight NFL starts. Lazard he's tall, he's big. He's a physical mismatch for Mike use especially when he plays out of the slot, although he plays really in all three positions for the at the wide receiver spot and is sitting on a nice game against the rebuilt Vikings. Let's continue on with our fantasy matchups, including Miami taking on the Patriots.

Matt You've already touched on some elements of this game. Yeah, and I'll keep with the Patriots side. I gave James White an A grade in this game. Kind of a bold call, but it's warranted. White has scored touchdowns in four of his last five games against the Dolphins, and Cam Newton averages nine point five running back targets per game nine point nine and a half times, yeah, over

his last six starts. So Cam shifted to a high percentage, low depth quarterback over the last three years of his career. So I can expect a ton of dump offs to James White in this game. And Sony Michelle still dinged up. Uh. I also gave Julian Edelman a B grade. Edelman has topped seventy five yards or scored in seven of his

last nine games against the Dolphins. The Dolphins top two corners Xavian Howard and Byron Jones, won't follow Edelman into the slot, where he led the league in targets from the slot last season with a hundred and one, and kill Harry is on the bench. He's listed as a Patriots questionable, like he's gonna play, but they gave him a questionable designation anyway. Uh, the zave Cave, as Brian calls him, is not a welcoming place to go in week one. I can't imagine a scenario where he'd want

to be starting Harry in week one. But you said you had to do it charge in one of my leagues. I've got to I've got to pull the trigger on nickil Harry. But it's a seventeen team guillotine league. So yeah, yeah, um Rex, Burkhead and Cam and I just highlighted in take a chance on me. So let's go to the Dolphins side. Shody Michelle not even graded. I mean, no, I'm not great. He's he's he's gonna get He's gonna get touches in this game. Maybe, boy, I don't know.

I'm not sure. I'm I'm writing the fact that everybody is saying that he's not ready to play. He had offseason foot surgery last year. He's not ready yet. I'm honestly surprised he's not an I r a. Uh. Let's go to the Miami side and Jordan Howard. I'm giving

him a bench grade. The Patriots allowed an average only twenty carries per game last season and allowed two total touchdowns to running backs all of last year, with Howard averaging about eleven carries per game last year at the Eagles and Matt Brita and play, I'd expect about eleven twelve carries for Howard in this game. Uh So, I think if you're going to go a running back for the Dolphins, you go Matt Brita, who I gave a

C grade to. Uh He probably gets the remaining eight to ten carries and should get about all the passing game work out of the backfield. Uh. With and the Pats allowed about five and a half receptions and forty two yards to the position through the air last year, that all goes to Brita, Ryan Fitzpatrick Senor Stu Beard. Yes, my guy, he's on the bench. In thirteen starts against New England, stew Beard has topped three hundred yards five times, but he's only done it once in his last six

games against Belichick. Although last December in New England, Stu Bird did throw for three twenty and a score. That was the last Dolphins game year and he single handedly knocked the Patriots out of a first round by That was fantastic. We appreciate you for that, Mr Mr Fitzpatrick, Mr Beard, do you Mr Beard? Uh? DeVante Parker, I'm giving a C grade two. He registered eight catches for a hundred and thirty seven yards against Stefan Gilmore last year,

so he's definitely not afraid of that matchup. He did have a recent hamstring strain, though, so he's operating at less than a percent, which always makes you nervous, especially with a wide receiver. I'd prefer not to start Parker, but if you have to do it, Preston Williams, I'm leaving on the bench for this game. He's a guy that I drafted a ton and I believe he'll end the year is the best receiver on the Dolphins, but I want to see him succeed just a little bit

before I trust putting him in my starting lineup. And then finally, Mike Gisicki the tight end, he gets a B. The Patriots mostly deployed Patrick Chung on tight ends last season, but he opted out this year, and maybe that's okay. As the Pats allowed six touchdowns to the tight end

position over their final eight games last season. They against tight ends, then they were against wide receivers and that includes one to Ghisicky in weeks seventeen, and according to Evan Silva, Gisicky ran more slot routes than any tight end in the league last season. New offensive coordinator Chan Gaily runs a ton of two slot formations. So Mike Gasiki is going to see a little bit of time a wide receiver too. I could see him lining up in the slot. That's that is a possibility for sure.

When we come back, we'll keep grinding through matchups Fantasy Style, including Indianapolis and Jacksonville, which you've already touched on a lot, but also Green Bay in Minnesota, Dalvin Cook Aaron Jones, two running backs taken in the first round. Both the tricky matchups will tell you what to expect from those guys when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Church and Bryan Johnson

and Matt Harrison with you. We're breaking down every game in the NFL slate this week, Fantasy Style letter grades for all the players you care about. Next game up, Indianapolis traveling to Jacksonville. Brian, you've already hit on a lot of the Jaguars. What about out Indianapolis? Including might take a chance. I mean quarterback Philip Rivers, who I like.

What do you think about the rest of the Indianapolis Colts. Well, we'll stick with the passing game then, And really is all about t Y Hilton, who gets an A here, looks to be going into the season, walks into the ripest of matchups. And the Jaguars who yielded the fifth fewist pass attempts last year but surrendered the seventh most completions of twenty plus yards, and this defense will be

even worse than it was last year. So t Y Hilton, he is healthy, fired him up with confidence in any format you can think of, Hilton is an A grade. All other wide receivers are on the bench. Though we like Paris Campbell here a lot, but he missed time late with a concussion and preseason Michael Kittman, Michael Pittman had a very quiet camp. Zach Pascal might start this game, So I'm not I'm not going there. They're on the bench.

They're taking a mistake on Paris Campbell this week. This week, okay, we'll see about that. Why wasn't your take on wide receiver? Then he's coming up later. I'm gonna talk Marbo Paris Cambell later in the show. Seems like you're speculating a bit prematurely, don't sing. The one other pass catcher I'll talk about for the Colts is Jack Doyle. I'll give him a c caught just one pass across two games against Jacksonville last year. Didn't even see a target in

the first game. But of course Eric Ebron was in town. Then he has gone. Now Trey Burton is on i R. It's not a plus matchup on paper for Doyle, but again, the Jacks lost everyone on defense, including Yannick and Gockway safety Ronnie Harrison. So Doyle is certainly stortable with the sea, and more than stortable are Marlon Mack and Jonathan Taylor. You can start them both in the same lineup as far as I'm concerned. Again, and by the way, this is not gonna be the last time we say this. No,

and that's daily seasonal anything. I'll give them both a B. Here, I'll give you'll love this charge. Mac gets the plus, Taylor gets the minus. He should see more work Jacksonville was like that. He should You'll you'll learn to love it. Jacksonville was one of ten teams to allow at least three point five red zone scoring attention per game. Last year, they allowed the second most rushing touchdowns per game. And oh yeah, opposing running backs averaged one hundred and sixties

six point six combo yards against last year. Split that up. There's plenty enough to go around for both Mac and Jonathan Taylor and then Rivers. You mentioned Charcher take a chance of the quarterback over to the jacksonvill side. Not a lot to talk about. We have to talk about James Robinson though everyone's waiver wire waiver wire Darling right now. I got him on the bench though. I know he's the quote unquote starter, but most of his carries are

likely to end at the line of scrimmage. One running back managed to top ninety yards against the Colts last year. That was Derrick Henry with a hundred and forty nine yards. Take those yards out of the box score. They allowed less than four yards per carry to opposing running backs. They added DeForest DeForest Buckner, all world depensive tackle from the forty niners, So Robinson bench him, do not put him in any daily lineups. I don't care how cheap

he is, completely Moonwalk from this talk. He's bad news this week. Chris Thompson, though is not might take a chance to me running back. I mentioned Lavio Chenault, Gardner Minshew also might take a chance of many players, and we have to mention DJ Chark. Of course, I'll give him a B based on volume and talent alone. He was up and down in the two meetings with India last year. A hundred plus yards in a touchdown in one, like forty yards in the other. They're gonna focus on

Chark big time in their game plan. The gold Stevens is but there's no way Chark doesn't see ten targets in this game, so you have to start them. Great bait takes on the Minnesota Vikings in Minnesota and Aaron Rodgers had a bad string of years against the Vikings, but I think it changes here and he's got an A grade along with Davante Adams. I referenced this earlier

in the show, but I'll repeat it again. The top three starting cornerbacks from Minnesota gone in free agency, replaced by a very green combination of Holden Hill, Cameron Danzler, Jeff Gladney, Mike Hughes. Four players who combined for eight NFL starts in their career, and the Vikings without their

star defensive end Dneil Hunter. All of that, he gives Aaron Rodgers the best chance he's had a long time to make a big impact against Minnesota, and Alan Lozard was might take a chance of me wide receiver, Absolutely startable. He's got a B grade in this game. Staying with the passing game, I know there's a fair amount of hype from Green Bay about Robert Tonyan. They're starting tight end and we'll watch his development, but he's super raw and the Vikings only allowed one tight end score all

of last year, so he is on the bench. Let's go to the running game. Aaron Jones gets an a. The Vikings once vaunted defensive line in shambles. Danil Hunter out as they mentioned, and that means all four of last year's starters are gone. The loss of run stuffer Michael Pierce, who opted out, as particularly notable here for Aaron Jones, and they could be susceptible up the middle.

Aaron Jones has had the Vikings number, including last year when he averaged one hundred thirty five rushing yards and scored three touchdowns in the two games, so he's an a start. We're gonna watch A. J. Dillon and Jamal Williams, you know. I think they will play roles in this game, but they probably cannibalize each other more than they cannibalize Aaron Jones, and they are on the bench for Minnesota

only a couple of starters here, including Dalvin Cook. It's an a really mostly an unchanged run defense for the Packers, and they were bad last year, allowing the sixth highest yards per carry, the seventh most rushing yards, the fifth

most rushing touchdowns. The Vikings best chance of winning this game is to run Cook throughout and control the clock, but I do worry about a pass heavy script in the second half if the Packers jump on the Vikings, which could happen, although the Vikings are favorite in the game, which I do not fully understand. Adam Feeling gets a B grade and Week one Kirk Cousins may significantly lean on Feeling given the lack of other proven options. Old B. C.

Johnson probably not much of a threat here. Feeling is gonna draw extra coverage, though he topped seventy five yards and five of his last seven meetings against the Packers. He can light up all over the field and that might help him shake JR. Alexander, who usually plays on the left side of the field. They might put Feeling more on the right side and in the slot for better coverage options. He is a B grade. I've got

everybody else on the bench, including Kirk Cousins. Packers defense is mostly unchanged from last year when they had a good pass defense, and Cousins put up middling numbers against green Bay last year, averaging just one d seventy eight yards and one score per game, and now no Stefan digs. Of course, R Smith and cal Rudolf a tight end. I just worry that they eat into each other's production. Minnesota tight ends were invisible against Green Bay last year,

totaling nineteen yards across both games for their tight ends. Yikes, that's it. So they are both on the bench as well. Let's go to Tampa Bay taking on the Saints in a game that's changed its dynamic a little bit. Here, Matt, because Mike Evans is not expected to play. Yeah, but I'm starting just about everybody else in this game. Evans downgraded the doubtful keeping on Scottie Miller who I mentioned and take a chance on me, and Justin Watson is

also in play. Marshawn Lattimore will cover one of them, and if Evans does go, Lattimore has done pretty well against Evans lately, holding him out of the end zone in three straight. Uh Tom Brady's getting an A grade. The Saints allowed the eleventh most passing yards and eleventh most passing scores last season and multiple touchdowns to six of the last eight quarterbacks they faced. Chris Godwin, of course,

is an A. Uh. It seems like he loves Bourbon Street, as he logged seven catches for a hundred and twenty five yards and two scores. Who in his trip it's great. It's called have you been in July? I wouldn't love it a sweat factory at that point. The food is so excellent down there, man, Gronk give him a C grade.

Hasn't played in over a year. Uh plus, the Saints are well above average against the tight end last year, although we do remember the last play that the Saints had was a Kyle Rudolph touchdown pass in the end zone. No push off there at all, and uh so Gronk has always got a chance to score. The Bucks backs Leonard four Nett and Ronald Jones, I'm leaving both of them on the bench. Honestly, who knows which Tampa running

back is going to get the most carries. No Tampa running back had consecutive games with five team touches last year. Super Bruce arians is the new Mike Shanahan, and it would not surprise me. If Lashawn McCoy gets the most touches in this game, it would surprise me. UM. On the saint side, Alvin Kamara gets a B. I hate that he had an injection in his back two weeks ago, but he has topped a hundred combo yards in each of his last two meetings with the Bucks, and that's

pretty impressive defense. And the Bucks run defense is great. They only allowed fifty six rushing yards per game to the position last year. And get this weird stat. No running back who scored a touchdown against Tampa last year topped thirty eight yards. Geez, isn't that crazy. I'm nervous. I'm more nervous about camera than I'm giving him a B just because he's so involved in the passing game. Um Drew Brees gets an A. The last time Breeze faced the Bucks in New Orleans, four under thirty eight

yards and three scores. Michael Thomas gets the fantasy Fonzie A plus plus plus plus plus plus plus. Emmanuel Sander he gets a SEA. He's averaged only forty yards per game over his last sixteen games. And get this, He's had two games of a hundred yards in that span, two games of nine yards nine times nine, and two games where he was healthy with zero yards. That's the high and the low of Manuel Sanders right there. Jared Cook,

I'm giving a C grade two as well. Cook scored in both games against Tampa last year, but only managed six total catches and seventy four total yards in those contests. And he's touchdown dependent, but he was targeted more in the end zone than any tight end in the league last season, so he's always in play for an emergency tight end touchdown. Right there. Let's go to the Chargers and the Bengals. Brian Enough the Chargers, UM, it's it's

not great news. Their offensive line is in tatters right now. Mike Palncey the centers out. They got two of the linemen who are questionable for this game, and I'm nervous. I actually moved Austin Neckler down my rankings a little bit, and I'm I'm nervous about this game. If I told you there was a running back with a hundred and thirty four catches, two hundred plus combo yards, and twenty total touchdowns that was going the late first round, I'd

be interested in that guy. It's not entirely true, but that's Melvin Gordon's and Austin Nels combined, and Gordon has gone. I'm still giving Austin Ekeler in a Yes, Mike Pounds he is out, but so is Geno Atkins run stuffer for the Bengals. And this is a great stat from Evan Silva regarding Ekeler. When he played at least sixty percent of the Chargers snaps last year, you have your nineteen touches for ninety nine yards, zero point nine touchdowns and six and a half catches per game. That's his

foar in this one. You mentioned Poundsy out. I'm a little worried about the line, but I'm stiven still giving Ekeler in a Here Keenan Allen no just to be will probably play the boundaries a lot more than usual because he's pretty much only wide receiver on the team. Um. The Bengals did hold the posing wide receivers who under one touchdown per game last year, but allowed a healthy st plus yards per game to the position. So I'm liking Keatan Allen with a B. I'm liking Hunter Henry

as well. He'll likely serve as a slot receiver for the charge from this one, meaning he never and then we'll never leave the field. And Tyrod Taylor is used to throwing to tight ends like Charles Clay, Hunter Henry massive upgrade there. Uh, Linebacker is a very soft spot for since they allowed big games to fantasy relevant tight ends last season, Mark Andrews twice, Darren Waller, Mike as Sicky,

even Dawson Knox the rest they face for scrubs. So Hunter is Hunter Henry in a good spot, and so was Tyrod Taylor almost made him my take on quarterback. Nobody allowed more rushing yards opposing quarterbacks in the Bengals last season, and this is the best spot Tyrod Taylor has been on and from an offensive perspective, he might be. He might be, but I'll pay I'll call my chances there and going over to the cinc side Joe Mixon

just to be here. It is a tough matchup. Despite the loss of All Pro safety Derwin James for the Chargers, this defense is still very stacked for l A volume all but a guarantee for Mixing, who had the most carries among among running backs in the second half last season, and the Chargers did allow more than five and a half catches per game to the position, so Mixing in a very safe spot here, not a smash spot though not a smash spot for a J. Green even though

fully healthy, likely to draw Casey Hayward on the outside, ranked fifth in coverage among cornerbacks by Pro Football Focus last year. I'm still starting him, but tempering tempering my expectations for a J. And Tyler Boyd too, he gets a C as well, a very tough matchup in Chris Harris, new addition from the Denver Broncos, as we all know from the show, one of the standout corners in the league. So just to see for Boyd and C. J Uzoma the Oozy my boy like him some weeks in the future,

but not this one. Even without Derwin James, the Chargers linebackers are very scary and tight ends will be needed to protect Burrow. Joe Burrow more than ever from the likes of Joey Bosa, Melvin Ingram flying off the edges. So Usuma on the bench and I know this will not make a lot of people happy. Joe Burrow on the bench as well. In his debut, It's going to be a tricky one. I'm even reluctant, reluctant to start him in Super Flex. It's it's it's it's a great

defense for l An without Derwin James. So it's a wait and see approach with Burrow. We've got about a minute left in this segment. Clyde Edwards a layer and did exactly what we told you he would do last week when we broke down that game. You're still not wearing pants. No, it was weird when you walked into the the studio without the pants on. Oh god, it's great. He's put a mask on. Down there's Clyde Edwards a layer,

going to be the highest scoring running back in fantasy football. Well, he's gotta get a target for us before I get one, does he? Though? He does? He really need to get a target. Just well, I don't know, maybe not he won't be the highest scoring running back, but I think we're already in the spot where next year he's like a top three guy. Well he was, he was my number three running back in my g this year. David Johnson could be as well. Fantastic. Oh he looked great.

Oh he didn't. He looks. Are you watching the same game he looked? He just looked. He could just look like an average NFL starting running back, which is just a big upgrade this last That's all I think. You're not. I thought Duke Johnson looked more spry until he got knocked out of the game drunk. Alright, we might be drunk, would we come back? We're going to answer three tough questions. You can play along see if you can go three

and oh on Fantasy Football Weekly. It's Fantasy Football Weekly Pulse. Shar chi In guilloteen Leagues dot Com, Brian Johnson Guillotine Leagues dot Com, and Matt Harrison Shock Fantasy dot Com. This is a segment we like to call three tough questions. We encourage you to play along see if you can go three and oh with my co host tough question Number one. The Jaguars starting running back James Robinson will finish the season as a running back to a flex

or a bench player. Predominantly running back to flex or bench player. We begin with Matt Harrison. Um, I have to say, if he's any good at all, the Jaguars will either cut him or trade him immediately. But right well, Armstead is still in play. Chris Thompson is definitely going to be in play all year. They just signed Dariogun Bo Wally divine A Zigbo is also a guy on the roster who they like. But yes, yeah, there's a good chance that we see three or four different lead

running backs on this roster this year. The game scripts are all going to be super pass heavy. He's not even a bench player. In my mind, He's a not on my roster player. So you're going you're going off the board. I won't pick a different answer all together. I like that that's brave because you're not likely to get it. I'm gonna get it wrong, all right, Brian. I'll only add that uh, new offensive coordinator Jay Gruden recently said that he uh Robinson can handle the touches.

He's ready for the work worklue at all that. If he said that right after they waived Leonard four Net, then I might believe him. But Sigbo got hurt and this is just pumping off a scrub that is going to break your hearts. Get him out of your lineups bench, James Robinson, it's Chris Thompson. That's the running back you want on Jacksonville. All right, So who is James Robinson? I decided to start. I decided to watch some tape some Illinois an NBA player from like back in the

nineties to I think Gwen Robinson Robins. I think, yeah, that's right who you're thinking of. I think his son was in the NBA. Uh. He was a workhorse back at Illinois State, destroyed the Missouri Valley Football Conference. Whoever that's worth. I watched him. I'm like, guy, he's got he's got a little bit of vision, some instinct, but pretty slow for the NFL game and that. I looked up his forty and he ran a four six five. No,

it was Hollywood Robinson. James Hollywood Robinson, you remember that guy. Uh. The positives on James Robins James Robinson are not many here. There's nobody really left on the roster to challenge him at this point, and he can stay on the field for third downs. He can catch a little bit, and I don't know, but I have no idea of his past catching and past blocking is good enough, though. We'll find out. I guess, and and I guess mostly James Robinson.

The only other positive is he has a carbon based life form at the starting running back on one of thirty two teams. The negatives are many, including a terrible offensive line, the massive jump from the Missouri Valley Conference to the NFL, and pretty much every defender, including some defensive linemen, are faster than he is. He I think the only redeeming value for James Washington is, at least here in the short term, he is your goal line back because he's big enough to carry the ball at

the stripe he is on the bench. Gardner Minshew will lead that team in rushing this year. It could be he might go Fitzpatrick on this team. You know, the Dolphins tried to tank last year and Fitzpatrick willed them to victories and running them, running the team better than any of the running backs. That could be Gardner Minshew. Tough question number two Patriots running back Damien Harris went on went on, I r this week, should you drop him? Hold or hold him for the three weeks it's going

to take to get him to be eligible to return? Brian, Well, this is easy because Rex Burkhead is going all the time. Can I Can I drop him after two weeks? What's this weird league in right to hold for three? Yes? But I've had been off Patriots running backs virtually forever. And Okay, so let's look at week four. If Harris returns, he draws the Broncos brutal matchup in the past, not so bad, but then it's forty Niners, Bills, Jets, Ravens. No,

thank you drop him now? Okay? I would also add in he has no history, so nobody's going to pick him up on passages. Yeah, so I think you can drop him, and I think that Bill Belichick hates fantasy players, so he's gonna totally come back, and we can prematurely speculate that you can pick him up right before the Week three games begin, and he probably belongs on your bench in Week four and we'll see how it goes. What doesn't Bill Belichick hate his dog? Yeah? That do

the draft draft. I think that might be it. That might be the beginning and the end of the things Bill Belichick does hates or actually likes. Um. So I'm trying to imagine it's okay, So let's let's time machine. Wait, let's time machine a little bit. We're gonna go four with the fantasy football machine. This is super premature speculation four weeks from now, and where are we sitting. Well, at that point, they will played the Dolphins, the Seahawks,

and the Raiders. All three are middling to bad run defenses, and that means the guys that are going to be carrying the ball over the next three weeks are probably gonna be pretty effective Sony Michelle or apparently new favorite Rex Burkhead. So those guys are gonna be sitting in

a fine position. They will likely not have struggled. The running game will be okay, and Damian Harris is probably back to the bench, and then you've got one game against Kansas City and then they go by, and so you have to hold him through the by as well. So talk to me in the bye We'll see if our premature speculation in weeks seven is to go get Damian Harris etative with that. In the meantime, we're gonna

kick him to the curb. Tough question number three. The record holder for the most passing touchdowns by a rookie quarterback in one season is Baker Mayfield with twenty seven passing touchdowns. Will Joe Burrow break his record this year? Matt, I think he will. That defense is terrible, which should create a lot of garbage time all season. Um, a lot of times when the Bengals really need to burrow out of a hole. Huh. Hey, yeah, I did it. I did it right there. Uh. He had really good weapons.

He has really good weapons around him, which most rookie quarterbacks don't have. The offensive line has improved with players coming back. Uh. And he has an offensive head coach who learned under Sean McVeigh. He's cool, he's fun. I just want to cheer for him, and I think Burrow is gonna do it. Okay, Brian, So, Baker Mayfield set that record playing in only fourteen games, and he didn't

start one of them. We all know Burrow. Burrow is coming out of the gates as a starter and Mayfield's top skill guys in were a rookie Nick Chubb who wasn't used like a bell cow, du Kaid, Duke Johnson, Carlos side running back, then Jarvis Landry, Antonio, Callaway, Brashad Berriman about that, and David and Joeku is clearly a bust uh As Matt mentioned that the Bengals weapons, I will take a healthy A j Green, Tyler Boyd and Joe Mixing all day. It's not a great schedule for Burrow.

Playing Baltimore in Pittsburgh twice doesn't help, but hey, Baker Mayfield had to play Baltimore in Pittsburgh twice. So yes, Burrow will break the record with passing touchdowns. He did market down he would need to throw one point seven passing touchdowns per game to break the record. I went through his schedule this year and looked at what every one of those teams gave up on a per game basis one point six. It's almost dead on what he

needs to get. So can he just be a hair better than the average quarterback to face all those teams last year? I think he can. The volume is probably there. Zach Taylor had Cincinnati through the fifth most passes last year, and that was with Ryan Finley at quarterback gross. Will the defense in Cincinnati be adequately bad to give Burrow plenty of garbage time? Yes, they wish. Will the Bengals defense Uh, I think only modestly improved from the bottom

dredges that they were last year. They finished twenty nine yards allowed, twenty five points allowed, and rush defense past defense last year. They're not going to suddenly vault into competency this season. Also working in the favor of Joe Burrow to set the record the deep set of wide receivers, right, you got Boyd and Green and Ross and uh Tate and Higgins maybe a factor in at some point as well. And so even if one of those guys gets knocked

out by injury, you've got all options there. I may he projects to be the most pro ready quarterback we've seen since Andrew Luck which agree a lot correct answer. Yes, Joe Burrow will set the rookie record todowns and then smoke a cigar afterwards the fine at that point you've earned it. I hope he doesn't break Baker Mayfield's record of god awful commercials that you have Uh oh kidding. They've already started the new slate of Baker eight fields.

He should be banned for commercials for a year after last year. Right, it's terrible what we got, what we were subjected to. Let's go to Philadelphia taking on Washington and will begin in the passing game. Carson Wentz first round pick Jalen Reagor probably plays in this game, and he was taken off the injury part on Friday, so that's good news all Sean Jeffrey will not be ready to play. Still, Reagor missed a big chunk of the

preseason and that's gonna hurt a rookie. And so I think this game, like a lot of them last year, go through his tight ends and his running backs through the air. Zach Ertz and Dallas Goddard rolled up almost two hundred receiving yards in the two matchups with Washington last year. In the Week fifteen matchup last season, while missing his starting receivers, Miles Sanders and Boston Scott rolled up ninety receiving yards in a touchdown through the air

in that game. So I expect those guys all to be heavily involved for sure. So Carson Wentz gets a B grade here. Zach Ertz is an obvious A and even Dallas Goddard clocks in with a C grade. Again with Jeffrey maybe limited on snaps, he gets Jeffrey out and Reagor limited. I think Goddor gets some extra playing time. And again in December when the Eagles are really stricken at the wide receiver spot, he taught fifty five yards

in every game in December god Or did so. He's a sneaky depth play here as well, and a C grade. Sticking with the passing game, who's the one healthy receiver. It's a revenge game. I can tell you it's a revenge game. That's right. It's the revenge duck playable. By the way, I won't say longtime co host Jay Clemens, but Shawn Jackson a great Week one history, by the way, unstoppable one. Well he was last year. He had the big Week one and then promptly was never seen, never

seen again. Jackson tantalized us in this spot last year. Eight catches hundred fifty four yards and two touchdowns in Week one. So there you go. Cornerback Fabians onto something that's right. Cornerback Fabian Moreau has the four three speed to keep up with him, but Moreau is otherwise not good and allowed nearly eight percent of his past is thrown in his direction to be completed. So that is why DeShawn Jackson a sneaky a great DFS play and a sneaky play and be great. I like him a lot.

Here Boston Scott was gonna take a chance on me running back, and they told you, I think he will outscore Miles Sanders in this game. Um Sanders is dealing with a lingering hamstring injury that will keep him on a snap count. Washington surrendered the second most rushing attempts, second most rushing yards, fifth most receptions, fifth most receiving yards. Opposing backs of Sanders can still get it done, and

he still gets a B grade. Here in Sanders at his best game of the year last year against Washington, when you put up a hundred seventy two total yards and two scores. Sough tissue injuries in preseason, I hate it. Just they just don't mix. We don't have a preseason to see these guys. Let's go to Washington side with a lot of guys to talk about. Terry mclaurin's great, he gets a B great. Wait who Terry mcla mc

noted irishman Terry McLaren. The Eagles finally decided to address their year long secondary issues this offseason by trading for cornerback Daries Slagh. But Slay was bad for the Lions last year and they're happy to let him go. And I don't think he makes their their their secondary anywhere really that much better. McLaurin met Sleigh last year put up seventy two yards on him, but he was held

scoreless in Detroit. McLaren won't win with speed against Slay, but I think he will end up being winning with savvy and could bring in some deep balls here. Will give him a B grade. The only other Washington player you may want to start is Antonio Gibson. Presumably they'll get the most carries, but this is a tough spot for Gibson as he faces an Eagles team that allowed the third fewest rushing attempts, the fourth fewest rushing yards,

and just three point seven yards per carry. We don't even know for sure if he's going to get the majority of the work or not, so I better you're better off just watching this one and we'll see how it ends up. Playing out f Antonio Gibson, Antonio Gibson, James Robinson fool's gold this week. Ye, they're starting running backs, but just don't let's watch it now. Running back Gibson. Gibson's got some NFL caliber talent. I just don't think it all comes together here in Week one and add

against a good run defense. Hey, if you want to see all of my player rankings, they are available for free at Guillotine leagues dot com. Guillotine leagues dot com. All my player rankings, every position, all players reviewed, rated, explanations for all of them. You can get them for free Guillotine leagues dot com. When we come back Dallas taking on the Rams they played to sixty five points last year, will we see similar offensive production in that

game this year? Stay tuned, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Giarchie and Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison with you. This next game is a little bit peculiar because as we're talking right now, we don't know if Arizona San Francisco is going to be played, going to be played in San Francisco, or Santa Clara going to be played at a neutral site. This is all because of the gender reveal, and we don't even know if it was a girl. No, it's a good point. It's good it

was a boy. Was it a boy? Only a boy would set fire to you know, several hundred thousands of forest ladies would never do that. No, never, absolutely not. So Brian will assume the game is on. You know, although in theory you could move you know, these games though, fans, it's a lot easier to move these games now than they ever used to be. Metro Doome collapsed on the Vikings, they had to pivot and go to go to Detroit and play Katrina came through New Orleans, they had to

play a game in the in the meadowlands. So, I mean, this thing could flip air Zona and b be another home game for Arizona potentially. But let's break down the game. Kyler Murray tough, this is a it is a This is not an easy game for Kyler Murray. I wouldn't really say that this forty Niners defense is going to take a step back at least early on Nick Bosa d Ford on the front. Yeah, they're pretty good. Miss

most of camp with injury. Uh, All Pro inside linebacker Fred Warner just came off the COVID list on Wednesday, doesn't have his legs under him. All Pro defensive tackle DeForrest Buckner now in India. As I just mentioned that von kinl on that spot. To put a first round pick into that spot, that's tell a rookie. I like

Kyler Murray charge. I know you hit him in the two games against the forty Niners last year, one to passing and thirty four rushing yards in one, then only on fifty passing yards but two passing touchdowns, and then sixty seven rushing yards and a touch shown on the ground in the second, meaning the forty Niners allowed the third most rushing yards per game to quarterbacks. And again, I think this defense takes a small, if not significant

step back, at least in the early weeks. And look, you drafted Kyler Murray's a top five quarterback, you treat him as such in this matchup. I'm giving him a b um staying with the passing game. DeAndre Hopkins just gonna give him a b here as well. He missed most of camp as well with a hamstring issue, but should get the green light if the game gets played,

of course. Uh San Francisco hasn't locked down their second cornerback. Really, it's just Richard Sherman, but he has planned on one side of the field a year older, so it's not hard to keep Hopkins out of that coverage. I don't have much more to say other than you're also not benching DeAndre Hopkins this week, but he only gets a B. So Sherman on one side might be bad news for Christian Kirk if he just gets stuck on Sherman or vice versa all all game. But Cliff Kingsbury is a

pretty creative guy. I think it's hard to imagine he just plants Kirk opo Sherman all game. So I'm gonna give him a c here, even though only had two catches for eight yards and then six forty one in the two meetings with San Francisco last year. But again, those are very different times for the Cardinals. DeAndre Hopkins and a year under Cayler Mary's Built changes everything. Um, Larry fitz Gerald, I'm gonna give him a bench, but I really hope he burns me on this one. I

got I gotta bench him for now. You cannot four for thirty eight, then five for thirty seven. One in the two games against San Francisco last year. But you gotta think DeAndre Hopkins eats into his target. So Larry Fitzgerald is on the bench, and I'm starting to priority so is my boy Dan Arnold. He's on the bench this way. This is really painful. But we'll get there

next week with Dan. But he's on the bench. But hey daily and then uh, lastly for Arizona, Kenyan Drake very solid b Chase Edmunds a guy we all need to keep our eye on. But right now Drake is the bell cow. He did play both games against San Fran last year. By the way, they hate when you call it San Fran and San Francisco, so they like it better when you call it Frisco, san France and France and France and France. Against San Fran, Kenyan Drake at a hundred sixty two combo yards and touchdown than

just eighty combo yards in the second game. He did have six catches. But again Nick bos A, d Ford not percent neither. It's Fred Warner, Kenyan, Drake solid b over to the San Francisco side. I'll be a little quicker here, raheem most just to see Arizona allowed the second most red zone scoring or tip story attempts per game last year at three point nine, but they only allowed nine rushing touchdowns running backs all season. That was

bottom of the barrel. Niners did nothing on the ground against the Cardinals last year, totally rushing yards on forty six carries across two games. Most are will likely start. But Tevin Coleman, who will talk to talk about in a minute. We'll lean to his snaps. We're getting him on the phone. Most never saw more than two targets at San Francisco starting running back last season, so he is a easy C grade this week. Charch I am sorry Kevin Coleman, not so much. He might miss this

game even if it's played. If the air quality index is I can't remember if it's above or under, if it's something, If it's something. If the SNY is the color of the Niners uniforms, we're not playing. You might not see Tevin Coleman. I wasn't too excited about. On the field. You can't see them because the air quality

is the exact same color as the universe. Coleman probably would would see some carries, probably more targets than usual, but I'm putting him on the bench either way now with this wildfire issue, and Jered McKinnon to Jered jettmckinnon on the bench right now. We see what we have with them, and we'll also see what we have with the forty Niners wide receivers. It's like Dante Pettis, Kendrick Bourne, Jordans Reid might be the leading wide receiver for the

forty Niners outside of George Kittle. Who gets the fantasy FONZI met this week? Not it's George Kittle, baby, and I only Tampa, I only Baby, I give the Fonzis and Arizona just posted the worst tight end defense in the history of the NFL. Twenty one targets were yielded to tight ends in gold to ghost scenarios by Arizona. Last year, the next highest total was twelve. Only two

other teams got to ten such targets. Unsurprisingly, the Cardinals allowed a whopping sixteen touchdowns to the tight end position. George Kittle caught one of those scores in the first meeting. He missed the second game, but Ross Dwelly only scored twice in accents, so George Kittle I might be wide receiver one this week. Screw Michael Thomas. I feel like I have to bring up I just gave Thomas the A so we could move through it. But now eleven plus eight for one fourteen and one and his two

games against Tampa. Alright, do two and two? Kittle won't get that? I think I think I'm on the Kittle side. Actually, you know who might be the FALSI this week is Jimmy Garoppolo. How many touchdowns do you think Garoppolo total against Arizona last year? It was a lot he killed last year air and ground, yes, but he didn't sound on the ground close eight geez three, seventeen and four and four and four for Garoppolo. Yes, he's got no

wide receivers right now, but he's got George Kittle. Arizona allowed the most passing touchdowns last season, and despite the lack of wide receivers, like I just said, two fifty and two is a safe floor for Jimmy g who can scramble if he needs to, and buy that, I mean scramble eggs for his date in the morning. Jeez. All right, let's go to Dallas taking on the Rams and when this these teams played. Last year, Dallas destroyed the Rams to the point that Dak Prescott even have

to pass. Is Zekiel Elliott had a monster game. What do you expect this time around? Me? Has Zeke had one sixty and two scores in the game last year, so he's an a uh chart. Not yet on Tony Pollard, just not yet. The Rams didn't quite give up enough to the running game. I agree. I just want to watch and I want to take a week to watch and see what Tony Pollard does. Yeah, I agree. Um Dak Prescott given him a b wasn't asked to do

a lot in the win last year. Is Zeke ran up the score, although he did manage two touchdown passes. Two players no longer on the Cowboys roster, and it's worth noting that it's a completely new Rams defense. No Dante Fowler, Corey Littleton, Eric Wettle, Nickel, Robie Coleman all gone. Aaron Donald is still a force, though, and so has newly minted Jalen Ramsey, who's going to be shadowing Amari Cooper who also has a hamstring injury. Par for the course,

Amari Cooper, thank you very much. In the game last year one catch for nineteen yards against Jalen Ramsey. I'm only given Cooper a C. I'm nervous. I will give B grades to Michael Gallup and Ceedee Lamb in this game, though, I think Gallup is the top target in this game. He won't face Ramsey, and he averaged eight yards per game last season. That's a solid floor. Plus. I think Ceedee Lamb, who they're talking about being maybe the best player in Cowboys camp, He's gonna go off. He's gonna

be so good. But has it all come to other in week one? Oh yeah, it's totally gonna do it. Hey, you know who Ceedee Lambs playing against this week? Tell me special teamer David Long is their slot corner. He played special teams all of last year, and he gets Ceedee Lamb, Coleman, absolutely um, Blake Jarwin, Brian Yeah, I know him, Yeah, you know him. He gets a B two. He's an interesting play with the Rams trotting out a completely new linebacker corps. Plus there's no Jason Witten to

hold him back. Whitten average just over five targets per game last season. Jarwin had another two and a half of his own, so I'd imagine seven or eight targets going Jarwin's direction, and that's good enough for a b start for a tight end. On the Rams side, the running game is on the bench cam Akers, Malcolm Brown and Darryl Henderson. Henderson spent time on the injury report this week. He has cleared that now, so mcveigh's plan of using a three back rotation back in play. I

don't trust this backfield at all. I've been saying it all preseason and the Cowboys were amongst the best in the league at limiting running back receptions and yards last year, with opposing backs averaging only four catches for thirty one yards. The guy who's the best starter out of this, I think is still Malcolm Brown, who I think it's the goal line work, but he might be the most car But I think here's a lot of people who are lie on cam Akers and they want him to be

a success. I do too, I just don't want to do it this week. Jared Goof, he's not very good at quarterback. I keep saying it. The problem is he's one of the worst quarterbacks in the league when pressured, according to establish the runs. Evan Silva, Goff's passerrating dips from n and a half in a clean pocket to sixty point four when under pressure. Take into account that Dallas just added Everson Griffin to DeMarcus Lawrence on the outside.

I don't like Goff's chances of keeping those hideous bone white uniforms clean. Oh my god, they're such bad uniforms. Who's ever gotten a worst uniform change in the Rams? Coop ber Cups getting an A grade though Golf doesn't throw deep, Cup doesn't run deep, with an A dot of six point six, but he's got a yack of five point seven. Uh. He figures to do well against backup slot corner Daryl Worley, who allowed over nine yards

per past attempt in his coverage last season. Robert Woods, Bobby Trees, He's getting a B. Woods will run along the outside against rookie Trevon dig So he's worth a flyer in a game where I think the Rams will be playing catchup. Uh, not Van Jefferson or Josh Reynolds quite yet. But Tyler Higbee, I'm giving a B grade to twelve for one eleven and last year's match up with the Cowboys that was without Gerald Everett though, who

is now back. Still, there were fewer tight ends in the league who finished hotter than Higbee, and you likely drafted him to start. There's no reason to sit him here. Next time you give Lamb a B, all you need to say is a B C D. Oh, I got you a B four CD. Before a B C D C D, I thought you were gonna go lamb by. Yeah, that's where I thought he was going to A B for C D is I think a little bit better?

That's it for years? Right, you're done? Yeah, alright, good. Um. I've only got about two minutes left in this segment, but I'm gonna try to squeeze in Las Vegas and Carolina because is not like guys talk about McCaffrey stardom. Well, yeah, oddly enough, yes, Josh Jacobs, though sitting out a better game that Christian McCaffrey and obvious a start against a historically bad last year, allowed a staggering twenties seven rushing touchdowns, almost two a game, by far, the worst in the league.

And so he is a He's a fantastic Storry's my number two ranked running back for this week. Derek Carr really the biggest hindrance for him having a good game here is Josh Jacobs. Still opportunities will be there against a rebuilt, incredibly young defense, and the secondary for Caroline is bad. Cornerback James Bradberry left in free agency, and the team will start rookie Troy Ey'd an incredibly brunable cornerback Dante Jackson. He allowed of passer rating a hundred

seventeen on throws in his coverage. Derek Carr gets a C grade, so does both Henry Ruggs and Brian Edwards, both startable dart throws against this rebuilt secondary. By all accounts, Edwards had a better training camp than Rugs, but Ruggs would be your home run play. If you want to go with the speedster, then there's Derris Darren Waller, who also gets a C grade. Carolina's defense was bad at everything last year except guarding tight ends. Only three guys

top forty seven yards against Carolina. Only three tight ends top forty seven yards against Carolina all year, but Luke Kickley retired. That'll that'll be a factor at the linebacker level for Waller, and I think he could get a little something done here. So a C grade for Darren Waller as well. Let's flip over to the Carolina side where Christian McCaffrey's and obvious a let's go to the passing game. Teddy Bridgewater gets a C grade the ultimate

game manager startable against the always rebuilding Ray secondary. Other middling quarterbacks who managed multiple touchdown games against the Raiders last year include Jacoby Brissette, Chase Daniel sam Donald Gardner, Minshew. Those guys put up who's who have quarterbacks? Right? That really is so Teddy's got two two touchdown upside in his arm, I think, and DJ Moore gets an A grade.

Last year he was able to post over eleven hundred yards with Kyle Allen at quarterback, so he's a good a good bet here to row second year cornerback Trayvon Mullin, who struggled against outside receivers last year. And and then they also have to start surprising first round rookie Damon Arnette, who will be playing in his first ever NFL game

and with a fractured thumb. So we like DJ Moore and Curtis Samuel, he'll go up against arguably the worst slot cornerback in the NFL, LaMarcus Joiner, without of the passes in his coverage to be completed last year in a passer rating a Huddard eight in his coverage, so we like Curtis Samuel is a dart throw here as well. And then lastly, tight end Ian Thomas also a dart throw and you probably don't need in a tight end already, but if you do, Thomas is plausible against the defense

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it will be sixteen teams. Week after that'll be fifteen teams Guillotine Leagues dot com. When we come back, premature speculation, guys, you can pick up now that everybody's going to be looking for on the waiver wire next week. Welcome back, final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. This is a segment week call premature speculation. The idea is, we're going to give you three players you'll want to pick up this week that we believe will be hot waiver wire pickups

next week, but they're already on your team. Hat We begin with Brian Johnson, who you got? All right, I'm gonna talk to my Dynasty, Empire and super flex players out there. And this is a quarterback I did not leave a rookie draft this past summer without. And that's Jalen Hurts of the Philadelphia Eagles. Yes, I know Carson Wentz is the starter right now, but Wentz has a little bit of a checkered injury past. H Jalen Hurts already sounds like he'll be deployed in a Taysom Hill

type role this season. So in a pinch in super flex or Dynasty, you couldn't plug in a warm body who might score some points if you're if you're short on quarterbacks. But in the long run, Allen Hurts is going to be in the mold of Lamar Jackson, Deshaun Watson, josh Alan Kyler Murray. He has that kind of skill set. It was a shocking pick by the Eagles who already at Carson Wentz, but they could not pass on him.

And this is a guy you don't want to be getting on just Adam Now, well, you know you're gonna Addam next week. You'd had Jalen hurt wat for one buck, right, do it now? Okay, let's get it over with Matt. This one's just a stupid gut call and it's Lashawn McCoy because the Buck, the Bucks don't make sense at the running back position. Bruce Arian gave Ronald Jones the vote of confidence and the Bucks signed for net. You

know what they're gonna do. They're gonna give Leshawn McCoy three carries from inside the five this week, and you're gonna have him on your roster and you can trade him away. Paris Campbell is gonna have a big game this week against a terrible Jaguars team, and you're gonna want him on your team. Remember, he was the He was a standout in college at the Combine, second year draft choice by the Colts last year, then had a gruesome hand injury that derailed most of last season. He's

come back healthy. He's been a star of training camp and after the Jaguars game, he gets the Vikings rebuilt secondary, then he gets the Jets rebuilt secondary. We might pause against the Bears, but then he gets the Browns of secondary influx, the Bengals and the Lions. He's gonna have a starting grade in six of the last seven weeks. Paris Campbell's a guy you're gonna want on your team, and you want to pick him up. Now, let's wrap up our final set of matchups, and we moved to

the Monday night games. Tennessee takes on the Denver Broncos Matt One of the unique things about this game Tennessee and Denver played each other last year. Derrick Henry had his worst game of the year. Twenty eight yards. That's it. I'm still giving him an a. There's no Von Miller, and it looks like defensive end Bradley Chub is not quite ready to go yet. I just don't see how the Broncos can generate a pass rush, and I think

Derrick Henry is just gonna go. Plus Ryan Tannehill, he just doesn't throw enough to make it worth your while. The only top twenty seven pass attempts twice in his final ten games of they run the ball. They're a running team, so I'm only given Ryan Tannehill is see uh. He did throw for multiple scores in all but two games last year, and the Titans won seven games where Tannehill passed for less than two hundred yards. They don't need him to pass, but it's a good matchup against

a lack of a pass rush. I'm giving a J. Brown a B. He only had thirty four targets from the slot last year, but he had the second highest d v o A score according to Football Outsiders and Denver slot corners no longer Chris Harris, it's the very beatable Bryce Callahan. So I think they're gonna start rolling a J. Brown in the slot a little bit more. Corey Davis obviously on the bench, average just over four targets per game in Tannehill starts last year. That's not good.

And your guy John new Smith charts, I'm giving him a C grade in this game. We don't have a ton of positive stats to go on here from the past, but there's a lot of good tape. The main positive is that Smith averaged ten yards per target last year wide receiver numbers. That's very high for a tight end and that means they need to target him more, right, hope. So, in my mighty is the number two targe receiver in this in the past game for Tennessee Jonna Smith he

should be. He just didn't get targeted last year. And I know that we like him and we see it. Does Tennessee see it? They do? Melvin Gordon and Philip Lindsay on the Broncos side, they're both getting Sea grades. It was pass catching backs that were the ones that got it done against the Titans last year. Duke Johnson, Alvin Kamarra, DeAndre Washington, Leonard four Net, Christian McCaffrey, Austin Ekeler all had huge games in the receiving game against

the Titans last year. Both had both backs have a similar issue receiving numbers. I think it's an even split there, more even than most people realize. Definitely Lindsay's probably he might even get more touches than Gordon in his game. Drew lock Is on the bench locks numbers from last year over his five games a thousand, twenty yards, seven touchdowns, three picks almost exactly mirrored the numbers of Eli man Ning and Marcus Mariotta, who were both replaced in the

middle of the season. The Titans did allow two d seventy three yards per game through the air last year, so there's a good chance that Lock breaks two and throws a score. Courtland Sutton injured his shoulder as an a C joint injury during practice this weekend m R game late Monday night game, so if you need Sutton, you need to pick up Tim Patrick or maybe the

Broncos Corey Davis, but that's not a good option. In Locks five starts, Sutton did not top eight yards and he but he did score twice in the first game that Lock played with him. So Jerry Judy, if Sutton doesn't play, gets to see if he does, he's on the bench. Reports out of camp that he didn't play very well and had trouble separating. So I'd rather have Tim Patrick in my lineup, I think, than Jerry Judy. And finally, Noah fant Uh he gets a B grade.

The Titans allowed six touchdowns to tight ends over the final seven games of the season, and fans trajectory is that of George Kittle, and I think he's gonna have a big year this year. I think you're right about that, let's go to Pittsburgh taking on the Giants. Ben Roethlisberger, by all accounts, the armis look good in training camp. Now he gets to test it out against one of

the worst secondaries in the NFL. Yeah, Big Ben gonna give him a be only because I'm not so sure how much Pittsburgh is gonna need to throw in this one. But totally recovered from Tommy John, Roethlisberger is might be in the best shape of his life as well. We'll get into how bad this Giant secondary is in a minute. Uh And if you haven't caught on or if you didn't know the Giants drafted, well, then you have to Philip Rivers technically and Eli Manning over Ben Roethlisberger. He

still hasn't forgot. So this is a revenge game for Big Ben. He be to his pass catchers Juju Smith Schuster. I'm giving him an a I am with it. He is healthy. Big Ben is healthy about a week ago. By the way, Giants are losing first and second round picks, not only injury but armed robbery. Right, that's right, because who doesn't gentleman and the barbecue. So I do about like somebody's backyard barbecue or like a barbecue restaurant. So this is this is last year's first round pick DeAndre

Baker is suspended for armed robbery. They lost their second round safety, Xavier McKinney to a broken foot. So what does New York do. They go out and sign Logan Thomas this week to man the slot. Thomas only allowed the most catches, yards and touchdowns from the slot last year. Signed on Wednesday. Juju Smith Schuster are gonna come roaring

back in this game. I'm giving um and then over the wide receivers, it's only Deonte Johnson, James Washington, Chase Claypool are kind of battling each other for the number three role. I'll give Deonte Johnson a see. New York allowed these second most wide receiver touchdowns last season, so he is a safe sea here. And then James Conner the last one. I'll also mentioned Eric Ebron really quick,

I got him on the bench. Good reports for you, Bron out of calp The New York allowed four and a half catches, fifty two yards and about a half touchdown per game to tight end. That's pretty good. It's pretty good, but iron is still so touchdown dependent. I just can't roll out a touchdown dependent tight end in Week one, especially named Eric Ebron. So he's on the bench for me. James Conner not though he gets an a as well. Mike Tomlin confirmed Monday that Connor will

maintain bell Cow duties. Yeah, yeah, whatever, they're not no way bell You can't bell cow. James Conner. Tomlin ran down every Tomlin can't not not bell cow. He's started running back though, So it's James Conner now. When the wheels fall off, will revisit it then. But New York allowed a hundred and forty five combo yards per game to running backs last year. Yes, they and it added

Leonard Williams at defensive tackle, which helped things. But just an absolute dumpster fire on the defensive side for New York. James Conner gets an all you can give dumpster fires. Let's just stay with New York. Hold on Benny Snell. Okay, and this thing get This is a blowout win for the Stadlers. Benny. They don't want to. They don't want to work horse James Connor bonus premature speculation with a big second half. I think I think he could be a dart throw he is the backup you want to

keep your eye on. It's not Anthony McFarland, the book he out of Maryland. It is Benny Snell. You're definitely right there, and he could see five to ten twelve touches and as Pittsburgh blows out the Giants, but you still gotta start, Say Kwon Barkley, I'm gonna give him a b. He's gonna have to fight for every fantasy point on Monday Night. The Steelers limited to posing back to under four yards per carry last year, third best

in the league. They're even they're even tougher against running backs through the air, surrendering the eighth fewist receptions, seventh fewest yards, and third fewest receiving touchdowns to the position. But you can't bench sa Kwon Barkley. He does have fourth overall pick Andrew Thomas to help pave the way now, but temperator expectations for Barkley, He's not gonna perform like overall, this might be his worst game of the year. Well, he's gonna got about four bad matchups coming over, so

we'll see about that. Basically, everyone else on the bench from New York other than Evan and Graham and giving him a ce. Only one tight end top three catches against the Steelers in the second half of this season last year, so not a great matchup, but you gotta play him when he's healthy. Tight end is not very deep this week from it. Take a chance on the perspective, so Ingram is inside the top twelve will give him a see all the wide receivers are on the bench.

The Steelers allowed these six US catches and yards to opposing wide receivers last year. Too many mouths to feed out of Golden Tate Darious lay Sterling Shepard. So their benched this week, and so is Daniel Jones. Pittsburgh was torched for six passing touchdowns in the first two games last year, but after acquiring Minca Fitzpatrick before Week three, they only allowed seventeen passing touchdowns from Week three to Week seventeen. It's gonna be a bad, bad day for

Danny Jones. I think you're right about that. Our final game is not one of the Monday nighters, just the way it worked out that we we do these. It's Cleveland and Baltimore. This might be Cleveland's toughest matchup of the year. In fact, it is. I think it's at Baltimore's as hard as it's gonna be until they played Baltimore. Well, at least we'll be at home. Yeah, So you're not gonna get a little bit like se Kwon Barkley. Don't panic, you know, it's get It will get better at some point.

Nick Chubb is just to be great here. Uh. He actually had a great game in Baltimore last year, hundred sixty five yards in three touch ounds. But it doesn't seem likely to happen again. Although down the stretch last year they did struggle. They gave up almost six yards per carry in their in their final four home games, for whatever that's worth. But they brought in Calais Campbell from the Jaguars on the cheap two, and they drafted rookie Patrick Queen as a middle linebacker, and I think

that's going to help the run defense. So just to be great on Chub, I've got a bench grade on Kareem Hunt. Chub's gonna get most of the carries, especially considering the success he had last year against the Ravens. And Hunt can't be counted on for receptions because the Ravens do an amazing job against runners through the air. They only allowed one running back receiving touchdown in their

last nineteen games. That's it. They allowed the fewest receptions to running backs last year, the third fewest yards to running backs. So Hunt sna can help on the ground or through the air, and he did nothing in his one game against the Ravens last year. He's on the bench Baker Mayfield. Just to see grade here. Ravens allowed less than one passing touchdown per game last year year,

but make Baker Mayfield is credit. Threw three touchdowns in the two games, which is a little better than that, but his wide receivers have difficult individual matchups and complicating matters. Baltimore was an elite tight end defense, so Austin Hooper is not gonna be able to help. So just to see grade on Baker Mayfield. To see grade on Odell Beckham. Um Beckham has a tough match up against Jimmy Smith

yielded just one score in ten games. And then there's Marcus Peters on the other side of the field, who gave up more than seventy five yards just once as when he came over to Baltimore in Week seven of last year, so there's nowhere to go for him either. Jarvis Landry says he's still not fully recovered from his offseason hip surgery, and he's going to see one of the better cornerbacks in this lot, Marlon Humphrey. Humphrey held Cleveland receivers to thirteen yards and twenty yards in his

coverage last year. So Jarvis Landry is on the bench just to see for Beckham. Huh, just to see for Odell Beckham again. This is uh, this is a. This is tough matchup as they're going to see for a long time. Lamar Jackson is an obvious A and we'll just move on to more salient guys. I guess you'll

want to definitely start Marquis Brown. We'll get his first look at his new beefy physique, and most receivers struggled against the Brown secondary last year, but they're gonna be without Greedy Williams, Kevin Johnson, and possibly m J. Stewart, so he's startable with a B grade. Miles Boykin a dart throw with a C grade. Mark Ingram gets a

B grade as the starter in this committee. He averaged a robust six yards per carry in the meetings last year, and J. K. Dobbins a C grade as he should give you the second man up in that running back rotation, Mark Andrews obviously for Mark Andrews block for a solid game here. Thanks guys. I hope you've enjoyed listening to the show. If you missed any part of it, check out the podcast k that is available on iHeart Radio or wherever you enjoy your favorite podcast. Fantasy Football Weekly

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