Week 6: for whom the Bell trolls

tempt me. Over the course of this show, we will break down every NFL matchup from the Week six slate. We'll also give you premature speculation. That's three players who recommend you pick up this week, so that when everybody else is trying to pick that guy up next week, he's already on your roster. Oh man, that worked out well last week, didn't it. Charge We'll talk about three

tough questions. You can go three and oor try to go three against our panel of experts, and we will give you nine players upon whom you can take a chance. These are free agent style players that you can pick up and start. Now. This show recognizes and celebrates greatness athletic athletic greatness in the NFL. Players we watch on Sunday sometimes coaching greatness, fantastic play design, schemes, play calls, but we also celebrate one other kind of greatness, our

own Scott, who is your premature speculation player? I am going there with that, that guy that had that toe tapping first catch in the NFL on the sidelines in week one, and then a week or two later you had that big a r touchdown. They call him maple Tron on the team because he's from Canada. That's a jujuice in the Shuster calls him. I'm going to Chase Claypool six ft four two thirty eight pounds four four to forty awesome matchup this weekend. People are going to

see it. His snap percentage and routes run increased exponentially week after week. Come with him. He overtook James Washington in snaps last week. Uh, Deonte Johnson and Juduice Smith. Schuster aren't always the picture of health. I think Chase Claypool shows up this week and I think he's got a lot of weeks in him this year. Couldn't agree more love Chase Claypool like kid is going to be a ball or already is? We need happy trombones for

him to double peacock. Did he double down on the take coming to Oh yeah, but he didn't happen take a chance on me. But he didn't have it in the notes originally in our in our little slack channel that he was going to use Chase Claypool and he backed off of it because he was already used calculation. It was. It was an awesome call by Scott Fish, one of the best calls in the history of fantasy football. Weekly for an immediate really in the history of fantasy football,

immediate pay pay out on premature speculation. You're gonna need to wait until the final segment to get this week's premature speculation. Oh and it's gonna be just as guarantee everywhere every time, just a different player to catch his yard. You will find out in short order what we're going to what we will be predicting for Cleveland and Pittsburgh and Chase Claypool for this week. Deante Johnson out, Let's turn our attention to the matchups, beginning with Denver taking

on New England. It looks like Drew Lock will be back at the Helm for the Broncos. So some good news there, Yeah, because so we were going to have this game last week, but then I got pushed to this week. And last week the starters were set to be Brett Rippon versus Jarrett Stidham, and now we have Drew Lock versus Cam Newton. That's a lot better. Uh, Drew Lock expected to return, I'm still going to leave

him on the bench. He only logged thirty three passing attempts in his only completed game this season, and the Patriots are allowing a league low twenty nine point eight passing attempts per game. In his first game back, you think Bronco is trying to stick to a run heavy ball control script in New England. Except Melvin Gordon's status is seriously in doubt. Was arrested for a d u I earlier this week and also has been sitting out with a illness. You can probably see the air quotes

over the radio. Uh, still hung over from Tuesday. Maybe that puts his status severely in doubt for this game. Um. Also, Philip Lindsay was set to return last week but then got an extra week off, so he's a little bit Healthier and Scott Fish when doing this preview last week, this stat Gordon has eighteen touches in three games this year, all three running backs to top fourteen touches. Also topped

eighty total yards against the Patriots. But there seems to be no way for Gordon to get to the eighteen touch mark with all these things working against him. So I'm giving him a see if if Melvin Gordon is inactive, I'm giving Philip Lindsay the sea um. That's it on the running game, how about the passing game? Jerry Judy, Tim Patrick, Noah Fantiffy is able to go. They're all on the bench, though fantas questionable with an ankle injury

and still may not go at the extra week arrest. Also, kJ Hammler's in the same boat with a hamstring, although he's more doubtful than questionable. Uh. Jerry Judy has hit the fifty yard mark in every game, and Tim Patrick sure looked good against the Jets. But Stephan Gilmour isn't on the Jets and he returns to the lineup for the Pats. The Pats are middle of the pack against whiteouts, allowing about thirteen catches and a hundred and seventy yards

per game. But consider that this offense is going about ten different directions right now, I'd leave all the Broncos

you can on the bench on the Patriot side. Cam gets an a. This could be run of the rare Cam passing masterpieces, as the Broncos are allowing the second most passing attempts in the league this season, almost forty two per game, and in five of the six games, five of the last six games in which Cam has thrown the ball forty one times, he's topped three hundred yards and thrown for multiple scores and five of those six, man, it's hard of fine times when you can trust Cam

Newton's arm. Yeah, but hey, he was just on the COVID list. Maybe his lungs aren't quite right. Maybe he just needs to sit back in the pocket and chuck a few this week. And and Denver is actually pretty good against the run um. But let's talk about the receivers before we get there. Julian Edelman, I'm giving a b Nikil Harry a see. Every slot receiver to face the Broncos this year has caught at least five receptions. Crowder and Godwin each had good fantasy days against this defense.

And the good news is the Broncos are giving up the most receptions per game to the wide receiver and wide receivers at sixteen point eight this year. Uh, that puts Harry in play too. Now the running backs Damien Harris, James White, Rex Burkhead, I don't think you can start any of them unless there's an angle, and the angle isn't really there for this one. The broncos one defensive

strength maybe against the running back. They're only allowing eighty five rushing yards per game to opposing backs and just one score through four games. And through the air it's not much better, only four reception for twenty six yards per game. They're all on the bench, and including James White, and including James receiving angle, there's just Rex Burke. Hads gonna eat a few of those receptions. I just don't think there's enough here to give him a confidence starting grade.

I don't know. I think PPR leagues, you can kind of always start James White. You get your five six receptions, your seven targets, your fifty yards. Broncos are allowing a lot less than that, though. Church Let's see how it goes. He let's see Cincinnati takes on Indianapolis. Brian For Cincinnati, Joe Mixon has been a massive frustration for fantasy owners,

and here comes a challenging matchup. Yeah, Mixing has been frustrating, but still probably the safest volume play out there has handled since he's running back touches over the last three weeks. But like you said, charge, the matchups have just been brutal all the year outside Relaxonville for Mixing, and that continues with the Colts this week. India is not allowed to starting running back to top seventy two rushing yards and only one back has scored on the ground all season.

Butt Mixing has twelve catches over his last two games, and opposed running backs are averaging five receptions per game against the Colts over their last three. So you gotta give him Mixing a sort of safe be here. You're not benching him, that's for sure. Definitely not benching Tyler Boyd. Gonna give him a b top ten and targets among wide receivers, and that's not going to change anytime soon.

The Colts are a good aren't a great matchup for whiteouts, but slot receivers have seen the most success against them. Jarvis Landry four catches for eight eight yards, Bractson Barrios four for sixty four and a touchdown, Keelan Cole five for forty seven in a touchdown. So Boyd is a safe. B who is not safe is a J. Green. Let's get this out of the way. He's on the bench, left last week with a hamstring injury. Just probably just drop you probably can sabotage drop him at this point,

not even a sabotage at this point. Nobody's going to pick up here, right. I might stille still love a j. But anyway, it's so sad. Anyway you want to trade for him in the Empire League, Brian now exactly full on tanking man, Well maybe I do. Anyway, te Higgins can say that you're tanking. You just have to pretend you declared tankruptcy. He has to pretend he's I won five yes, by the way, declaring tankruptcy. That that that's got something. That's anyway, Uh, te Higgins gonna give him

a ce. The Colts have allowed the fifth fewest receptions to wide receivers, but these they've allowed six touchdowns to wide receivers, so if you're desperate, I will give t a C. Drew sample. Though on the bench of posting tight ends are averaging three point four catches in twenty seven yards per game against the Colts was zero touchdowns bench for sample, and also a bench for Joe Burrow. Colts allowing less than eighteen points per game. That's second

best in the league. The Bengals offensive line is one of the two worst in the league. The Colts have a top five pass rush. Burrow is actually second in end zone throws, but only has converted three of those to touchdowns. That's not all his fault, but yeah, just Burrow on the bench this week. Sadly, if you're the Bengals this next draft, all offensive line, all the time, and I know they've already put a bunch of picks into the offensive line. They need more. Over to the

Colts side, Jonathan Taylor, I'm giving him an aid. I'm willing the monster breakout game here. Opposing running backs are averaging a hundred and fifty plus combo yards per game against the Bengals, who just lost another defensive player to I R defensive ends Sam Hubbard defensive tackle DJ Reader might not play in this game. Volume has been an issue for Taylor, but he has the fifth most red zone carries, fourth most goal line carries, and has scored

in three of the last four games. I'm liking him here in a suspected blowout for the Colts. T Y Hilton Forest still gets a see though did see seven targets last week. But the problem is those targets are coming from Philip Rivers. We'll talk about him in a second. The Bengals have actually played wide receivers kind of tough

they have, but no one. No one has topped hundred yards against him, but opposing number ones have had nice days against since Odell Beckham four catches seventy four yards in touchdown, Greg Ward at the time the number one receiver or Billy eight for seventy two and one. DJ Charks scored twice. Marquis Brown seventy seven yards in touchdown

last week. So I'm giving Hilton a see and Philip Rivers still on the bench since he's bottom tenant opponent passing play percentage UH teams just passing fifty pcent of the time against them, And if you've watched him play, that's all you need to know. Yeah, for sure, so bad. It looks it does. It looks bad, looks cooked cooked. Baltimore is taking on Philadelphia will start on the Baltimore side.

Lamar Jackson's an obviously, and I'm not going to spend a lot more time on that, although we'll note that the Baltimore offense really hasn't seemingly hit its rhythm quite yet where it's been really explosive, although a good game last week, the explosion could be coming here. Mark Andrews also gets an A. The Eagles are one of four teams to allow at least five touchdowns to tight ends, and the very comparable George Kittle just shredded them for

fifteen catches, three yards and a touchdown last week. Mark Chi's Brown gets a c A grade here. The Eagles secondaries yielded the six most fantasy points to opposing receivers, and Brown has notched at least seventy seven yards in three of their first five games. He'll get shadow covered from Darius Slay, which worries me, and that's part of why he's only a C grade here. Through five games, Darius Slay has yet to allow a score or more than sixty six yards in his coverage in any game.

So just the C grade from Mark keys Brown. And here's the real frustration point with the Ravens. It's the running backs and they're all on the bench. It's come to this. You could try mark Ingram, but be aware that you're getting a holy touchdown dependent back with mark Ingram at this point. He just doesn't carry the ball enough. Now he is the only back who's regularly getting red zone carries. So again, you could roll the dice on a touchdown here, but that's what you're doing with mark Ingram.

If he doesn't score, he's gonna hurt your team. He's Jordan Howard. Now he is Jordan Howard. Only Darryl Henderson has top fifty four rushing yards against Philadelphia this season. It's a tough matchup anyway. Only four backs have beaten them for more more than sixty six yards in their last twenty four outings. So it's hard to run on the Eagles anyway. So all the all the all of the Baltimore running backs are on the bench. The rushing yards are gonna come through Lamar Jackson. Now let's get

to the Philly c Where is it? It is a disaster great offensive line. The latest loss left tackle Lane Johnson ruled out, and then on Friday important utility guard who had been filling in Matt Pryor got put on the COVID list. It's just been horrible for this offensive line that will have one of five starters in it. It's gone to the point where other NFC teams are gonna start jockeying for position to play the NFC East. Maybe in the playoffs. Everybody's gonna try to be the

five seed exactly. Let's talk about some of the few players that I think you can find a way to start, and it certainly is in Carson Wentz, who's on the on the bench. His protection has been horrible, his receivers are free agent quality, his running game takes no heat off him, and he's playing badly. And then there's the Baltimore defense. So all of that together, Carson Wentz is on the bench, the old nut. I'm not starting any

of his receivers, including last week's star Travis Fulgum. They're all out for this week against the Steelers, sorry against against Baltimore. And then the one guy you you may want to play is Zach Ertz. Now, I know zach Ertz has been a disaster, but get this, the one weakness with Baltimore is the tight end position. They've given up good fantasy games already this year to David and Joku,

Jordan's Aikens, Darren Fells, and of course Travis Kelsey. Arch is better than three of those four guys, and if they're gonna get anything done through the air, it'll go through zach ert The one difference is is all those teams that you mentioned have wide receivers. That's a good point, you know, and er Erch is gonna have to block as well in this game. So I'm not expecting a throwback to the great days of zach Ertz. But I am giving him a C grade in this game. Miles Sanders.

I almost put him on the bench, and it's just the C grade because of the state of the offensive line so bad last week. He you probably saw his highlights seventy four yard touchdown run. What you didn't see if you didn't watch the game, or his other ten rush is for six yards. And you know, it's not really fair to just throw out his one good play. But if he didn't make that one good play, it would have been a disaster game for him, and he could have another disaster one against a good Ravens team

allowing the ninth fewest rushing yards in the NFL. When we come back take a chance on Me, these are nine players not normally in your starting lineup. You'll be able to pick many of these players up off the waiver wire in this a tricky by week. When we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, welcome back to a

royalty free version of take a chance on me. We will give you three quarterbacks, three running backs, and three receivers, many of whom are available off the aver wire, that you can pick up and start this week, beginning with the quarterback position and Brian Johnson. Not the first time I'm going to recommend Gardner Minshew this time. At last time I did that was probably two weeks ago, three

weeks ago. But anyway, Minshew at home against the Lions, who have allowed multiple passing touchdowns in every game, including three two even said on it right now, look at you go, mind melding. Yes, the Lions might get cornerback Desmond Trufont back in uniform, but he is still iffy with the growing injury Detroit might be without slot corner Darryl Roberts as well, And yes, d J. Chark will probably miss this game. But I'm still rolling out Gardner Minshew,

who can move mobile quarterback to lake. Sad Trombonesy and Kyle Allen combined for fifty five rushing yards and a touchdown and just eight carries against Detroit. Minsho's gonna throw for at LEAs two touchdowns in the scheme. Really, I should have been playing happy he played the Lions. He three three touchdowns in that game. If I'm going to extrapolate Sad Trombone Ski SATs, it's at least seven touchdowns from Minshew in this game. At the talent extrapolator, exactly,

we need a talent extrapolator sound bite. Bang, it's not the art ark. No, that's not a talent extrapolating sound whatsoever? That you found an art fork? Yeah, like week Giant Cricket found. Well, Brianne found what of course she did. Honestly, it could be anything. She says it's an art ark. I don't know. She's just whistling and right, who knows. We're just trusting Brianna. Give me a platypus so I don't know. That sounds like a ring tone that no

one wants to use on the iPhone. That's that's the ring tone when you're bitter ex girlfriend calls you. I would imagine more to something like a hard yard R says its own name. It's like Scooby doo. I'm pretty sure we're off the rails. Okay, anyway, let's get back to the take a chance and me quarterbacks Matt Ryan Tannehill is might take a chance on me QB. So far, through four games, Tannel has their own touchdown passes nine times, nine times nine He's only thrown one interception in that span.

So far through five games, the Texans have you given up a touchdown pass nine times? What we're really off the rails? The Texans have yet to force an interception this year. Uh In their two meetings last year, he threw from multiple scores in both games and added a rushing touchdown. This is a good matchup for Tannehill. Andy Dalton will drop back to pass. He looks left, there's Amari Cooper. He looks right, there's Michael Gallup. Crossing across

the middle of the field. Here's CD Lamb or dump off to Dalton Schultz or coming out of the backfield. One of the best past catching running backs Ezekiel elliott I thought you were gonna say Tony Pollard and or Tony Pollard Adalton to a Dalton connection. They will stretch a thin secondary for at the Arizona that is outmatched at every spot. And if you're under the misconception that

Patrick Peterson is still a shutdown cornerback. Closier, clamshell, flip phone, go to the shelf, pick up a world book, Encyclopedia, leave through the pages until you get to you will not see a picture. Patrick Peterson, in particular, Dallas is most reliable receiver. Ceedee Lamb's got an awesome matchup in the slot. Every quarterback to face the Cardinals has thrown a touchdown. Most of them have thrown more than one.

Let's go to the running back position, Brian Uh, we didn't think it would be this deep at this point, but DeAndre Swift is a deep pull but I'm going there.

He's at at Jacksonville. Uh not getting medin carries. DeAndre Swift is, but he has been active in the passing game at least four catches and two of his last three games with the received touchdown during that span, and he's been seeing usage as a slot receiver and that should ramp up um and Swift ranks third among all running backs and yards per route run on non screenplays,

only behind Alvin Kamara and Green Bay's Aaron Jones. Opposing running backs are averaging more than six catches per game against the Jags, who are also yielding the second most red zone targets to running backs and elite g p P play in daily is DeAndre Swift. I got Leonard four Net, who did not practice at all in Week five leading up to their Thursday night game against the Bears. He was active in that game though, and he played one snap now this week, one whole snap. Hey, they

put him on the field. That means something, right, It means a little bit of health. Um. This week he's been limited and practice still at that ankle injury, but

it's all but assumed he's gonna play. And because we've seen two straight weeks of one yard output from Ronald Jones, it's time for Bruce arians to be Bruce arians, mess with our minds and put four Net up to for another big game for an has caught seven of his eight targets out of the backfield this year, and this week he gets a Packers team that is allowing almost eight catches and seventy yards per game to opposing backs

out of the backfield. If this game turns into a shootout and Brady is forced to throw, it seems like the Bucks trust for Net to be the back on the field to help protect Brady and passing situations and get a few dump offs here and there. So I like him to be the top scoring back in Tampa this week. I'm gonna build off of Brian's case for a Lions running back, and that's Adrian Peterson. His usage is tied directly to the team's success. When the Lions

are winning, he gets used. When they're louing losing, he does not. He gets double the amount of snaps when the Lions are leading. That brings in this week's opponent for Adrian Peterson the Jaguars, who have held a lead for eight percent of their plays this year. That's it. So Lions get out to a lead, they run Adrian Peterson, you get victory. It's rare that we see competing take a chance on me runners that they are complementary. Take their complementary. Take a chance on me players, Let's go

to the receivers. Bryan, call me coronavirus because I'm staying in Florida. Not I'm not going anywhere with this Jacksonville Detroit matchup. I got Keelan Cole of the Jaguars going up against the Lions. Cole has at least five targets in every game and should see an increase with d J. Chark very iffy to play in this one. Cole has also scored in three of five games. The Lions have yielded the fourth most red zone touches to wide receivers.

And then when we played in four games Detroit. By the way, and mentioned earlier that Detroit could be without slot corner Darryl Roberts, but he wasn't much help against the I guess comparable Andy Isabella, who torched Roberts for a hundred plus yards and two touchdowns. Cole has the same upside, all right, Matt, I've got Brandon Cooks, and according to Josh Hermsmeyer of Established the Run, Cooks is leading the team with twenty eight percent of the Texans

are yards. It just hasn't amounted to the big play as of yet, well until last week. I gain he had a touchdown. Last week. He's averaging almost seven targets per game, and this week he gets the Titans defense that's allowing sixteen catches in a hundred ninety seven yards per game to the wide receiver position. So even after will Fuller gets his six for eight and a score, there's enough left for Cooks. Well, I'm going we're going

all just piggybacking off of Brian. I have another Jaguars receiver, lavish Ka Chenalt. I look, as you mentioned, d J. Chark, not gonna go in there by the way I put out my guys first, where is Chris Conley? Though normally this is you watch It's gonna be a christ right here. We've done it now we have I love chin Alt, though he was already trending towards more and more usage, with rising targets and receptions in every game in Nault's last two games eighty six yards and seventy nine yards.

And even with the bye week, the Lions are gonna be without Desmond Trufant, Justin Coleman Praying playing predominantly from the right side, Laviska. Shealt will face rookie Jeff Okuda, who has failed his trial by are ranking one hundred fifteenth among cornerbacks. By is an offensive lineman's name too, isn't it? But that's not a cornerback. Yeah, I know he starts, so we're starting. Carry on Johnson and Chris. Yeah, here's how he watched. Who wants to be a millionaire?

Let's get back to some matchups, including Houston taking well, they we're just talking about Houston and Tennessee. Sure, let's go to the Let's go to the Houston side. I liked to Shawn Watson a lot in this game. How do you feel? Yeah? Game and A grade. Watson has four career games against the Titans and four career multi touchdown passing days. He's also added a rushing touchdown and two of his four meetings with the Titans, so that's good.

He shouldn't fear them this year either, as the Titans are allowing to seventy three and two to opposing ball schuckers this year. Will Fuller, his favorite wide receiver, gets an A, has played the Titans five times and somewhat expectedly, has scored four touchdowns against them because when Will pull

Fuller plays, he usually scores. We established that the Titans are giving up a lot through the air, but most of that is going to the wide receiver position seven for on seventy five to Justin Jefferson and a hundred and six yards to Steph Digs in the last two games. That's why Brandon Cooks was also might take a chance on me wide receiver. I am going to leave Randall Cobb on the bench though, same with Jordan Aikins, who's

still dealing with the concussion in Week four. Lastly, on the Houston side, David Johnson, I'm giving him a B grade, and I don't want to pretend like David Johnson is good anymore. No, thank you, because I'm tired of people trying to tell me that David Johnson is a great back. He's not like what he was. He's taking high teams worth of workload and turning it into like sixty yards per game. But fortunately the Titans run defense has been gouged to the tune of a hundred and twenty four

yards per game to opposing backs. That includes five point six yards per carry on the season. And if you can't start David Johnson this week. He does not deserve to be on your roster. Agreed. On the other side, Derrick Henry is this week's fantasy art Vark. Oh, you don't say last week's fantasy art Vark broke his ankle severely, so I hope this isn't the curse of the yard mark.

So he gets the double A grade. Last time he faced the Texans two eleven yards and three scores, and the Texans are allowing five point two yards per carry. Ryan Tanhill was of course might take a chance and me quarterback. Uh. The other two guys, we need to mention A. J. Brown. I'm giving him a B grade. Just came off the injury report the game a little

extra rest this week after playing on Tuesday. The Texans allowed big days to both Adam Theelan and Justin Jefferson, but have basically kept the other wide receivers in check this year. However, they do give up over a touchdown per game to the position, and with Corey Davis still on the COVID list as of right now, it's likely Brown who sees the additional targets, and Brown did score in both meetings last year and top two hundred yards

in each of the meetings. Finally, John U. Smith. Yes, I didn't even write anything down for John NU Smith. I just wrote a grade charge. Do you want to take some time to talk about John Why? Yes, I would. As a matter of fact, I love to talk about Johnny Smith, who is the number one the tight end in Fantasy points per game. John U. Smith, who's number two in yards after the catch among tight ends. John U. Smith, who's Pro Football focus is highest rated tight end, John

new Smith. It's all, it's all come up, John U. Smith. I'm not going to do any John new Smith matchups the rest of the year. I'm just going to be like and and Church, go yeah and don't tap me. I could break it down much further than that, but at this point, all you have to say is John U. Smith and obvious a grade. There's nothing we want the best tight end in football. There's nothing we would say that would stop you from starting him anyway, powering teams

through and into the fantasy playoffs. John U. Smith. When we come back, we will talk about Washington taking on the Giants. Do we get a bounce back game from a Washington offense and only put up one hundred and eight yards in a game. Terry, What happened to Terry McClaren. What could he come back in this one? We'll tell you when when we come back. Also a little later

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dot com. Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchie and Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison with you. We returned to matchups Detroit taking on Jacksonville. We've already talked about most of the Detroit notables in this game, except and the Jacksonville. Yeah, and Jacksonville, with the exception of my highest rated wide receiver of the week, Kenny Golliday. But are we allowed to use Fonzie? Like somebody's gonna threaten this? Henry Winkler on the studios really nice. But anyway, the

fantasy Fonzie for Kenny Golladay Jacksonville. By the way, Kenny Gollady like a hundred and eighty percent healthy right now, which he's like the healthiest he's ever been. Jacksonville has surrendered at least one wide receiver score in three of their past four games. Golliday should see plenty of rookie corner seventh round rookie corner Chris Claybrooks, who was flamed by Brandon Cooks by the way, Matt, Yeah, Cooks have like a hundred fifty yards and the touchdown you really

really poop pood on him. But anyway, Cooks conceded two inches to clay Brooks. Right, Dolliday has five inches and forty pounds on clay Brooks. So the Fonzie for Galladay easy a. I'm gonna give Marvin Jones to see. The Jags are one of nine teams to allow least eight hundred fifty yards to wide receivers. That's a hundred and

seventy yards a game. Yeah, Jones had one catch on two targets last week, putting his three games prior he topped fifty yards or scored a touchdown, so he gets to see I think he's a B. I'd like I like him. I like Danny Amendola too so and I like DeAndre Swift. So see for Jones, see for Almondola. Slot receivers at Farewell against Jacksonville easily have cleared ten

plus PPR points. Paris Campbell, Adam Humphreys, Tyler Boyd, Randall Cobb, all of them and T. J. Hockenson can give him a B. Positive is how I feel about this matchup. Hockinson has at least top fifty yards and door scored a touchdown in every game. The Jaguars have allowed the third most yards to tight ends and have also allowed at least one scored to the position in three of their last four games. So a B for t. J. Hockenson.

Matt Stafford gets an easy A here to every quarterback face the Jags has thrown for three yards and oring multiple touchdowns. Everyone is healthy for the Lions. Stafford is on point right now, multiple multiple multiple touchdowns and three or four games and six of the past seven going back to last year and then to the running backs charge, Adrian Peterson was your take a chance. Let me running back DeAndre Swift was mine. Uh, they both should produce

and what should be a shootout here. We'll take the rushing yards, you take the passing yards. Deal all right over to the Jacksonville side. Not a lot to talk about here. James Robinson does get to be Aaron Jones. Kind of inflated the opposing running back numbers against Detroit, but even David Montgomery and Kenyan Drake average more than five yards per carry against Detroit. The Saints just total three rushing touchdowns against them. By the way, I was

off last week. Lottavism had two touchdowns and might take a chance on me running back in a week four. By the way, so from two weeks ago, Well I wasn't here last week. What else am I supposed to do? Anyway? J rob should bounce back five catches over his last three games. He is, so I don't need this, thank you. It's just obvious. Two touchdowns from a running back, Come on, now, he's still a bell cow. J rob has a safe floor,

as was every starting running back against Detroit. They've at least total seventy four combo yards and four or five catches, So double PPR points in the books for Robinson, then DJ Shark probably he's on the bench, unlikely to play. Even if he does, you're looking at a decoy role. Levis les Chanalt. You take a chance to me wide receiver, chart Keeling Cole was might take a chance to me wide receiver. And Gardner Minshew might take a chance to

me quarterback. All right, what about Chris Conley, he should be he's a listeners. Take a chance to me. We are ultimately jinxing Cole and Chanald into bad games. And Chris Connolly maybe I'm going to it could be Washington takes on the Giants, and man, these are too bad bad offenses. As I mentioned last segment, Washington with one hundred eight total yards of offense last year last week and negative six yards of offense in the second half, ruining what was a try an amazing return for Alex

Smith didn't work out that way. Unfortunately. Now the offensive line does get guard Brandon Sheriff back, and that's huge, and God that they need him because that offensive line was brutal last week. I still like Antonio Gibson. In fact, I think this is a perfect time to trade for Antonio Gibson coming off a bad game. Each running back with at least ten touches against the Giants has averaged

yards and one point two touchdowns per game. I don't know if there will be enough gibbage time in this one, though I don't think he even needs the gibbage time. That could be just alright winning. You never know. Despite these sputtering offense around him and splitting some of the backfield duties with J. D. McKissick, uh Antonio, Gibson still commanding fourteen touches a game. Most importantly, he just passes the eye test. He looks good when he's given anything

to work with. I'm convinced that Gibson is a good back who has had some bad run find a bad offensive line that hopefully is getting better. I think this is a Bylow moment on Gibson and he gets a B grade for this game. U J D. Mcsuck it gets a C grade. PPR option is as a possibility here as I think he does get some get some receptions. He's seeing about half the running back snaps, the other half going to Gibson. Giants have a lot of big

games through the air. To David Montgomery and Jeff Wilson out of the blue, So there's no reason mckiss i can't succeed here as well. So C grade for J. D. Mcsuckett in PPR leagues only, and that brings us to Terry McLaurin, the only other might attempted. Here's the problem. Normally McLaren finds his way to a good game no matter what, no matter the opponent, no matter how mad

his quarterbacking is. And by the way, should have mentioned Kyle Allen returns to the helm here, but he's gonna get shadow covered from James Bradberry, who struggled a little bit in the opener and then since then has been awesome. Since the opener, he's allowing an average of twenty three scoreless yards. And speaking of twenty three yards, that's what he just held a Marie Cooper to twenty three yards

in shadow coverage. So I only have the C grade on Terry McLaurin, and honestly, I wouldn't blame you if you benched him if you've got other good options. Let's go to the giant side. Only two players to talk about. The first is Darius Slayton in the passing game. The Giants offense has generated two passing touchdowns through five games.

That's horrible. He's facing a Washington secondary that has allowed two receivers to top seventy yards and two receivers to find the end zone all year, and he's got a tough matchup against Kendall Fuller who's played very well and has three interceptions in his last three games. So slight

and just to see grade. And then the only other player that you would uh even consider starting is running back DeVonta Freeman, seeing over half the running back snaps and back to back weeks he's seeing an increase in rushing attempts, rushing yards, and rushing yards per carry, which is good. Since shutting down the Miles Sanders list Eagles, Washington has allowed one hundred fifteen rushing yards per game, which is six most, and one point five touchdowns per

game to opposing running backs. So I think you can use Devanta Semen Freeman Freeman at how do you know he hasn't been in the Navy. He could have been in the Navy. We don't know that. I was just about to say no, Evan Ingram and now I'm all, I'm all grade freeman, which makes him a seman. It's a ce man, a c man. That's exactly right, Evan Ingram. At this point, I'm just gonna stop talking, and that

will tell you about Cleveland. At Pittsburgh. Kareem Hunt is also a seaman, but I think it's an elevated seaman. Let's call it a sea extreme. Uh. He's going to get all of the work in the backfield that loves to run. The problem is the Steelers are only allowing

fifty one yards per game to opposing backs. Now, Miles Sanders did score twice last week and had that one huge drawn against the Steelers, but that was the best fantasy day for running back against the Steelers since Week sixteen of two thousand eighteen, when Alvin Kamara scored twice and tallied over a hundred yards. That was like an eclipse last week. They don't happen often. Baker Mayfield, he's

on your bench. Mayfield his face the Steelers three times in his career, and while he did throw for two touchdown passes in two of those games, he's still never topped two hundred yards against a Mike Tomlin defense, and he's only averaging per game on the air, good for twenty six in the league. That's not good enough for him to get a starting grade. Odell Beckham and Jarvis Landry, I'm gonna give them both, you know, C grades. They're

both seamen as well. Uh. The Steelers are allowing two hundred three yards per game to the wide receiver position, and Travis Fulgum roughed them up a little bit last week. Odell couldn't topped sixty yards in his two games against the Steelers last year, and he's only topped sixty yards four times in his last ten total outings and he hasn't topped eighty one yards in one of those. So uh.

He's just to see Landry at season highs in targets and yards last week, but only converted those nine targets to forty four yards. He still hasn't scored on the year, and he has one touchdown in his last ten games. Austin Hooper's on the bench. It's just a matchup based thing for Hooper and this isn't the matchup for it.

Over on the Steeler side, Big Ben, He's getting an a he's fourth in the league and touchdown passes facing a defense that has allowed the third most touchdowns through the air this season and three fourteen yards per game. Chase Claypool and Juju Smith Schuster. I'm giving them both B grades in this game, and it's closer to A grades. Actually, it's like a high B. It's a B extreme. There is no such thing, but there is a grade. Uh. Deonte Johnson still out this week, so Chase Claypool and

his world tour continues. UH. He's currently leading the Steelers in air yards and touchdowns. Juju is running strictly from the slot but getting about six targets per game. The Browns just put starting cornerback Greedy Williams on i R. And Denzel Ward has been beaten for three touchdowns so far this year. He's been bad. And oh, by the way, the Browns are allowing over two hundred yards and a score and a half to the wide receiver position every game.

Eric Ebron, it's a B. He's averaging five targets per game and has had five receptions in each of his last two outings. The Browns are allowing almost seven catches and sixty two yards to the position and allowed four tight end touchdowns in five games. Finally, James Connor. He gets a B grade as well. After laying an egg in Week one. Connor has scored in three straight and

top two hundred and two of three. The Browns have been pretty good against the yardage this season, though is no back has top to fifty seven yards against them, but they have allowed five rushing touchdowns in five games, and that probably goes to Connor in this one. And I think that I think the Steelers are just gonna absolutely roll the Browns in this one. I kind of hope you're wrong. It would be fun to have Cleveland relevant,

would be fun. This is This is the kind of statement game that would bring absolute Cleveland franchise relevancy they have not had since they left Cleveland. One of my kids gave up on the Vikings and he's now a Browns fan for no good reason. Followed Kevin followed, He's he's on me every week. Yeah, Browns are four and one wearing his Odell jersey. It's like, Okay, I got you. He's got a brown Zo deal Jersey's got a brown Zo del jersey. He's got a giant Motel hat. Yeah,

that's ja. Chicago takes on Carolina Briant. Now, if you're a David Montgomery owner, you've had this game circled all year, every year. Every week, you're just like, who's got the Who's got the Panthers? This is the perfect week for that running back David Montgomery sitting at a big game. There's nothing I hate more than it's player X week.

But it is David Montgomery week. The Panthers are allowing a hundred and seventy plus combo yards per game to running backs, third most, one point eight touchdowns per game to running backs the most, and Montgomery has seen a bump in the passing game with three cohen On I r. Monty is averaging seven targets per game, and Carolina has yielded the third most targets and the second most red zone targets too opposing running back. So put it on

the fridge and a for David Montgomery. Over to the receiving game for Chicago, Allen Robinson gonna give him an a too. Over the last four weeks, Mike Evans, Keenan Allen, and Calvin Ridley have all topped the hundred yards against the Panthers. A rob is certainly cut from the same cloth He's averaging thirteen targets for a hundred plus yards over his last two games. Double digit targets uh, certainly in the cards for Allen Robinson. I got Anthony Miller

and Darnell Mooney on the bench. They cannot be trusted at this point. But can Jimmy Graham be trusted as an every week starter? The answer is no. I got him on the bench this week. Graham is tied for the most end zone targets in the NFL among all players, has four touchdowns already, but the Panthers have allowed just one touchdown to a tight end this year, and they gave up just four touchdowns to tight ends last year.

Carolina ranks third best in yards allowed to the position in terms of least amount, and no tight end his top fifty yards in ten games against Carolina going back to last year. So Graham on the bench this week, as is Nick Foles. You can basically bank on a rob stats and that's about it makes polls, It's all David Monk. I'm ringing this one over to the Carolina side. Not a lot of love here, starting with Robby Anderson,

who is third in catches overall. Right now, if that's it's shocking wide receiver fifties six in August and arguably the biggest steel in fantasy football. Yeah, he probably is the biggest steel other than maybe John new Smith. Maybe maybe John. By the way he's daggering DJ Moore, He certainly is, But I think uh Anderson and Morgan get daggered and this one it's a rough, rough matchup for both.

In the last four games, Chicago secondary has only allowed more than sixty one yards to one receiver, that was Calvin Ridley. The Bears have also only allowed one touchdown to receiver a wide receiver all season. Anderson and Anderson is a tough matchup against Kyle Kyle Kyle Buhler, who is allowing just passes to be completed in his coverage. That said, the Bears have allowed the third most red zone targets to wide receivers, and Anderson his fifth in

red zone targets among all players. I'll still give him a sea, But I got DJ more on the bench averaging just five targets per game over the last three weeks. That's not cool. And if you remove his fifty seven yard catching run touchdown from last week against Atlanta, which was kind of flukey, averaging three catches, thirty six yards and zero touchdowns per game. Is DJ Moore. He is on the bench as his Teddy Bridgewater another amazing bargain in draft this year. I hate to bench Bridgewater, but

the Bears d is pretty much back to elite. They are allowing the fourth view as points per game. Uh that's at twenty points per game, and no opposing quarterback has thrown for more than one touchdown and the very comparable Bucks defense Health Caroline is seventeen points in Week two. Yes, Bridgewater had three d sixties seven passing yards, but he had two picks and no touchdowns. And lastly, at running back,

McCaffrey probably not gonna play you gonna play him. I'm giving him Mike Davis and a Only Alvin Kamara has seen more targets at running back than Mike Davis, and Davis has missed like a third of the season. The Bears have been decent against opposing backs, but they are allowing a hundred thirty four comvo yards per game to the position. So Davis in play with the b All right, that was a that was a lot to talk about,

and if it didn't cover all of your questions. You can get all my player rankings available for free at Guillotine leagues dot com. But we have a whole another hour of this show coming. Stay tuned to find out more about the rest of the matchups and play along with Three Tough Questions coming up next. You don't don't Welcome back to the show Fantasy Football Weekly on the fan. Paul Charting with you Guillotine leagues dot com. Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison are my host. Matt tell people what's

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call three Tough Questions. We encourage you to play along see if you can go three n O with the panel of experts, namely Brian and Matt. Tough. Question number one New Kansas City chief running back levy On Bell certainly hurts Clyde Edwards Alayer's already wobbly fantasy value, but let's focus on him for a minute going forward. Once he joins the team next week, will he be an RB one and RB two, a flex or a bench player? Brian, So, the Chiefs running back hasn't been the most lucrative spot

so far. Chiefs are averaging just twenty rush attempts per game and under five catches per game when it comes to running backs, and assuming best case scenario, Bell gets sevent of those touch totals, it's not a very impressive amount. I don't see Clyde Edwards E Layer Ball getting less than of the touches moving forward. Of course, the offense is electric in Kansas City and Bell could be the missing piece to get it fully. Clicking the schedule wasn't

great moving forward. He's got the Broncos twice, the Bucks, the Saints, but there are some cupcakes in the mix with the Jets revenge game next week, Panthers, Dolphins, and the Falcons in week sixteen, so it's an up and down bag. But Bell is going to be the lead back RB two moving forward with ease. Okay, I don't have much to add from what Brian said, but does he have a lot more in the tank than Lashawn McCoy did last year when he joined the club. And

I think that yes. Plus he's leaving Adam Gaze, and every player who leaves Adam Gaze ends up having a Pro Bowl season. The rest of the way, I only have him as a flex though. All right, well, let's dig into this. The presumed role for laby On Bell's a one two hunch with Clyde Edwards Hilaire. You know, is he the one or is either two in this punch? Is really I think a lot of the question here.

We know that Bell is the probable goal line back because Clyde Edwards Alaire hasn't been able to get anything going inside the five yard line, although they basically stopped trying with him inside the five yard line. Bell has good hands. He'll chisel into Clyde Edwards a layers already modest role as a receiver that in fact, Bell might have better hands, and Bell will be on the field and third downs because and this is a I think

this is the sneaky reason they made this move. Clyde Edwards a layer is the NFL's bottom ranked pass blocking running back. If you are the bottom ranked pass blocking running back and you are a liability to Patrick Mahomes, you're not on the field much. And that's what worries me. And that's why I believe that at least on passing downs, and there are a lot of passing down to this offense, Clyde Edwards Laire is not going to be on the field. Now.

Everybody's gonna struggle behind this run blocking unit that's been bad, and they just lost Collecchio, assimilate their starting guard who was the backup behind the the starting guard who decided to go be a doctor all season. So I think there's going to be struggles here many weeks. But nevertheless, I think that Bell has more total upside between pass catching, pass blocking, goal line use than Clyde Edwards a layer, and he will be a running back to the rest

of the way. Tough question number two. The last time Davante Adams was healthy back in Week one, Robert Tanyan didn't have a catch with Adam's back. Is Tanyan a sure fire every week starting tight end Matt uh So, Robert Tanyan has caught eleven passes in the last two weeks for a hundred and forty eight yards and four touchdowns. Those are very good numbers, but let's consider the entirety of his three year career, much of which has been

played with Davanta Adams. His eleven just over those two games, where forty one percent of his career receptions, fifty two percent of his career yardage, and fifty sent of his career touchdowns. But maybe Aaron Rodgers just figured out something was finally there, figured out how to use a tight end, something he barely has done at any point in his career. That's why I think that realistically we can expect Jimmy Graham numbers out of Robert Tonyan once Davanta Adams comes back.

And Jimmy Graham averaged three catches for thirty four yards throughout his two year packer career. So I do not think he's an every week's starting tight end, Brian, it's Robert Tannian and every week's starting tight end. I have sort of the same things to say, but with a different answer. So tight ends having factored into Green Bay's offense, it's like the days of Bubba Frank's or like that Michael Finley had like a cup of coffee for a minute.

As an elite tight end, Packers tight end finishes as a whole in catches starting from last year, ten six and twenty sixteen. So the eighteen year Jimmy Graham at fifty five catches and nearly seven hundred yards, he was the second leading receiver for the Packers. There was Davante Adams had a monster year, played fifteen games, almost fourteen hundred yards and three touchdowns. No other wide receiver outside of Adams on that team. Jimmy Graham the second leading receiver.

Virtually the same situation for the Packers this year. Tanyan looks better than a cook to Jimmy Graham from so, I'm gonna say, yes, he's in every week starting tight ends. He isn't every week starting tight end. And there's another way to answer this question. Is he a top twelve tight end? The answers yes, I mean they're only in my the way I look at it. Their eight reliable

tight ends in a draft. We thought going into the draft was a deep year for tight end, but a lot of the bubble guys haven't panned out, Hayden Hurst, Austin Cooper, Evan Ingram, Bold, Cook, Dan Arnold, all all of these guys disasters, So there aren't twelve good tight ends to go around. I'm certainly not going to be not I'm certainly not gonna be benching Robert Tonyan with all of the touchdown so far. And I think maybe

most importantly, Tanyan just passes the eye test. He looks athletic, he can catch, He's got the passes that have gone Tanyan's way. He has zero drops on the season, and you can make a pretty strong case that after Davante Adams, Tanyan is Aaron rodgers second best target. Maybe, especially with Alan Lazard out Aaron Jones, maybe is two A and two B. So yes, you can start Robert Tanyan the

rest of the year. Every week. Tough question number three, Ceedee Lamb or Marie Cooper teammates for the rest of the year. Who you got Brian Michael Gallop would like a word with you, But anyway, she assuming nobody would have taken Gallop and I was tip dude, But anyway, over the last three weeks, Cooper has out targeted Lamb thirty two to four, but Lamb has compiled more catches, yards, and touchdowns during that three expand, of course we can throw out most of the season stats because Doc is

on I are now. But last week Lamb saw leven targets to Cooper's for Dalton rarely looked Cooper's way, and Cede Lamb has been very consistent in his rookie year, with at least five catches in every game. He also leads the Cowboys and end zone targets so far. Consistent is something that Mary Cooper has never been throughout his career. Yes, the first four weeks he was more than consistent, was blowing up, but he wet the bed last week. He's wet the bed in like fifty percent of his career games.

UH failed to reach five catches at nearly half of his games last year. I just see the up and down for Cooper too much, and I see c D as a consistently safe floor with a massive ceiling. The best wide receiver on that team right now is Ceedee Lamb. I'll take both, by the way. UH Cooper is top three and targets and receptions, Lamb is top thirteen in

both of those categories. They're both averaging about eighty five yards per game, and I like Cooper a lot more this year in the Mike McCarthy more free flowing offense. But the one thing is Lamb plays out of the slot, so he's going to consistently get slot corners covering him, who generally aren't as good as outside corners, while Cooper will likely face top cover corners for the rest of the year, like James Bradberry last week, who made his

day very difficult. And that's the tiebreaker. So I'll take Lamb. But it's pretty close to even. You get did a great job with this question. You know, after Dallas drafted Ceedee Lamb, I proclaimed that he'd be the Cowboys best receiver by the end of the year. I was wrong. It took four weeks. Oh, it's he's all you know, he's already the best receiver. You're still, well, that's true, I'm it's yeah, it's it's a humble brag. Really can

get right down to it. Um. I think for all the reasons that you've mentioned here, he's immune to the bust game. I love that he runs from the slot. I love all the usage they've given him. And in a historic draft class, or what is shaping up to be a historic draft class for wide receivers, Ceedee Lamb might be the best out of all of them. I mean, Ceede Lamb is gonna be the best every week. No, but I think in totality of the season, Ceedee Lamb will be the best. Denver in Las Vegas are going

to be kicking themselves for years and years. I think, taking and Judy and Jefferson for that matter, well maybe yeah, I mean yeah, they could add Jefferson, I know, but Jefferson was right. Yeah, Atlanta takes on Minnesota and let's let's begin with the passing game. Julio Jones removed from the injury report on Friday, given and barring a last minute set back on his hamstring, he will he will go now. He would be in a grade were it not for the threat of re injury that we all

experienced two weeks ago. Jones runs from all over the field, and he has a deeply positive matchup at every stop against Minnesota's green secondary of Cameron Danceler, Mike Hughes, and Jeff Gladney. I will note this, though Mike Zimmer has owned Julio Jones his average career game against Minnesota thirty eight yards and zero point two touchdowns. That's it. I'm just picturing Zimmer shadowing Julio personally out it's been It is shocking when Zimmer has done to Julio Jones. Julio

need a dollar. I don't even know what that means. Calvin Ridley gets an a. He has succeeded despite Matt ryan struggles, and we'll talk about that in a minute. Posting over one hundred yards and all four of his healthy games in the last three games without Julio Jones, Ridley's averaging twelve targets per game. That probably comes down a bit here with Julio Jones back, but the Vikings also can't centralize their coverage on Julio Jones, so probably

evens out. The Vikings are giving up one hundred ninety three yards per game to receivers, that is the fourth most. They've also allowed multiple touchdowns to receivers and back to back weeks, So a grade for Calvin Ridley. Let's get to Matt Ryan, who is just playing bad right now. His game last week is the worst game I've ever seen. Matt Ryan play. He has thrown one touchdown in his

last three games. The last time Matt Ryan threw one touchdown over a span of three games were his second, third and fourth ever NFL games back in tooth and you're gonna say, like fifth grade football, it could have been, but he was probably torching, you know, Billy Jenkins in the backyard, so that I think he was probably good there too. Minnesota's a lot of five touchdown passes over the past two weeks, and I think you keep starting

Matt Ryan here. As bad as he was last week, I'm still giving him a sea here, just because the Vikings are so mallegable and Julio Jones is coming back. Russell Gauge is on the bench. I thought he was possibly startable when Julio Jones was out, but not anymore. And hayden Hurst is a tough star because Zimmer has been brutally tough on tight ends. Over Minnesota's last thirty games. The Vikings have given up two tight end scores and to yard games to tight ends. That's it. So hayden

Hurst is on the bench. That brings us to Todd Gurley, fresh off his first one hundred yard rushing performance, Since twenty eight the Vikings are allowing the seventh most rushing attempts, the seventh most rushing yards to opposing running backs, and starters are averaging eight yards and a score per game. Eight yards and a score per game puts Todd Gurley on a B grade. Let's go to the Viking side. Dalvin Cook is out Alexander Madison inherits. Dalvin's twenty one

touches per game. Get this Madison last week, even though Dalvin got knocked out at what about the one third mark of the game, get twenty three touches in that game. It's a great opportunity for him. The Falcons are average against the run, but they've been a disaster through the air, as they have been for five straight seasons. They're giving up nine receptions to running backs on a per game basis, and the second most receiving yards sixty three through the air.

If Madison is going to get most of those nine receptions in sixty three yards and then he chips in another sixty yards through the ground, Alexander Madison's in my top five. I think Moon is almost to take a chance on me, right. You could go with with Mike Boone here, just like you might have gone with Alexander Madison. To take a chance of the player in this matchup, Let's go to the passing game, where kirk Cousin gets a B. The average passing game against the Falcons is

a staggering three forty five yards and three touchdowns. This is the most favorable quarterback matchup of any team, So Kirk Cousins gets to be here, and considering there without d Alvin Cook, I do expect a few more pass It's not a lot. It'll still be run heavy for the Vikings, but there will be a few more passes to be had. And we saw Cousins throw fourteen more passes than usual on Sunday night when Cook got knocked out of that game. I'm not saying he's gonna get

another fourteen here, but he might get half that. He might get a spare seven. And that makes kirk Cousins highly relevant in this game, so are his receivers. Adam Feelings absolutely in play here, with an A grade. In each of the past two games, Theland has seen double digit targets and tallied at least eighty yards. Atlanta's allowing a whopping two d fifteen yards per game to receivers. That's second most, and they've allowed a receiver to find

the end zone in four of five games. Justin Jefferson gets a B grade Atlanta's secondary giving up two hundred fifteen yards to receivers. That gives him an opportunity to have a nice game here as well. It's no coincidence that Adam Feeling is surging since Justin Jefferson started to come Alive's good for the offense. It's good for the offense. You've got it. Irv Smith got more attention last week. I just I need to see more than one game. I'm not ready to but Falcons have been bad against

tight ends. If you're in a pinch, you could go with IRV Smith here, but Kyle Rudolph. You could try Kyle Rudolph. But IRV Smith was the guy last week. I don't know if it's gonna be two in a row or not. I'm not ready to say that Hitness necessarily will be when we come back. We'll continue through matchups, including Arizona at Dallas. Kenyan Drake, who looked at least okay last week, and he'd stay on track. We'll tell

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Johnson with you. As I mentioned going into the break, Arizona takes on Dallas and Drake how maybe the most frustrating fantasy player this year that doesn't have an injury excuse that's been built in. It's been bad for him. Many people believe he's not the best starting running back in Arizona. Well, his excuses, I'm just not very good. Maybe that might be true. I've been harping on it all off season. He has an excuse, his excuses that you've been harping on exactly. He's very upset at me.

But thirty three percent of his fantasy points last year came in two games. That's that's not good. That's not good. That's Spike weeks Um. I am giving both Chase Edmonds and Kenyan Drake c grades this week because it's lightly likely going to be pretty close to an even split,

and Edmonds is closing that gap pretty quickly. Last week, Edmonds was on the field for forty of the plays and for the Cowboys since middle linebacker Layton vander Ash went down, the Cowboys are allowing five point three yards per carry two enemy backs. There's plenty to go around here. Drake isn't involved nearly at all in the passing game, so Edmonds would be the guy getting the plus added to the sea if we did those sorts of things that He's a c okay um Kyler, a Hopkins, a

Christian Kirk. He gets a b uh. He seems fully healthy after notching seven targets five receptions in seventy eight yards last week in New York. Plus five boundary receivers have topped a hundred yards against the Cowboys this year, and O'Dell's eighty one yards and two scores don't count in that that list. I told you to pick up Christian Kirk two weeks ago. This is the start of the payoff right here. Let's go to the other side in the Dallas Way before you get away from Kyler Murray.

Total number of players with more rushing touchdowns than Kyler Murray, Well, I remember last week I mentioned that he had the same amount as Alvin Kamara. One. Dalvin Cook is the only player with more rushing touchdowns than He's a top twelve running back. Now, that's probably right. I think he's sixty three yards on a touchdown per game. Ground sounds about right, uh, Ezekiel Elliott, I'm giving him an A grade. Honestly.

This offense probably just goes through Zeke even more now and the Cards are allowing a hundred and fifty eight Comboy yards per game plus a touchdown to opposing backs, I think that all goes to Zeke. Here. Andy Dalton, he's the new dude. I'm gonna give him a be This offense is still very solid and sound, and he was here to take a chance on me quarterback, wasn't He charge was awesome? Umari Cooper, He's getting an A grade in this one. Giants corner James Bradberry shut him

down last week. But Pat Pete is not the Pat Pete of old. He's allowed some huge games already this year. Is Terry McLaurin had the most notable one, where he went for seven and one in Peterson's coverage. Michael Gallop and Ceedee Lamb both solid Bees in this game. Gallop looked like Dalton's favorite target at the tail end of the Giants game with two acrobatic catches. Uh. The two hooked up for three catches and sixty five yards in the second half, and Lamb has between five and eight

receptions in every game. He's just super solid. And Jamison Crowder just dinged up the secondary from the slot to the tune of eight catches for one sixteen and a score. You know what, Ceedee Lambs in a grade too, all right, Dalton Schultz. But but if he's an A grade, then we can't give the A, B, two C D. That's the sad making an A grade. I'm sorry, um, Dalton Schultz, he gets a C grade. I'm a little bit nervous that Schultz's production will go down a little bit under

a new quarterback. He's currently eight in both targets and receptions among tight ends. But the Cards have been very good against the tight end this year, unlike last year. UH, they're only allowing four catches for forty three yards in one score on the year. Remember when the Cardinals were in the NFC East. This was an old NFC that kindled rivalry from the NFC East. You know, they were St. Loui Cardinals at that point. To Ram, no, they weren't.

And then they moved. There were the Chicago Cardinals. Well yeah, but I'm talking about Arizona. But they had just moved. They didn't realign at that point. When I was a kid, I collected Ricky Prole. Oh yeah, yeah, he was some Ricky Prole cards. He was really good. I was convinced he was going to be like a notable player, head up for a big career, and I was gonna cash you. David Boston was going to be that guy. Oh one. The only thing I really remember about him is him

complaining because defenders were tearing his nipple rings out. Poor guy, Valid Valid complain, Maybe you don't play with your nipple rings in just just an idea. Don't the shoulder pads protect your nipple rings? Apparently not, I don't nipple pads. Ram ram rams take on the San Francisco Los Angeles has added cam Acres to the league's most befuddling backfield. What do you do now, Brian, Yeah it Darryl Henderson still the lead back. Just gonna give him the see

he gets the only starting grade. He led the l a backfield and snaps last week. Scored twice, but we still saw a fair amount of Malcolm Brown and like you said, charge was worked into the mix even more. And despite injuries to Nick Bosa and Solomon Thomas, the forty Niners are still suffocating opposing backs, allowing only sixty three rushing yards per game to the position. That's third fewest. Uh No back has top sixty rushing yards against San Francisco.

Henderson his fourth and red zone carries among all backs, so hopefully he'd get the goal line plunge. I will give him a seat here, but there's a lot to be worried about when it comes to Darryl Henderson over the receiving game for the Rams Cooper Cup. Gonna give him a be has at least seven targets and sixty five yards in each of his past three games. He's basically the safest ram there is. He's also scored in

two of the last three games. His history against the Niners kind of sucks though has never top thirty one yards, but he end the forty Niners secondary ravage by injuries. Ryan Fitzpatrick just feasted on them for three and fifty yards and three scores. So Cup gets a B and I'm still gonna give Robert Woods the starting game with the seed despite seeing just six targets per game over

his last four. He needs more volume, but he has a favorable matchup against a Kello Witherspoon who is allowing a passer rating of a hundred forty eight in his coverage. And for what it's worth, Woods had eight catches for a hundred and seventeen yards when these teams last met in Week sixteen last season. Over to Tyler Higbee, man, I'm close to a bench here. I will give him a seed just because it's a bye week and there's

not a lot to work with the tight end. If you take out his three touchdown game in Week two against the Eagles disaster, he's averaging two point five catches and twenty eight yards with no touchdowns. I can't do it, I know. And the matchup is not great against the forty Niners. They're one of ten teams to surrender less than two hundred yards to a posting tight ends so far. That said, San Francisco just surrendered six catches ninety four yards and his score to Miami's tight ends last week.

He could be had nine catches for one oh four in that week sixteen games. So if you have a better option, Ben Jacob, but I'll still give him a very very very soft sea here. And Jared Goff, I'm just gonna give him a C as well. He did go off for three twenty three and two when these

teams last met in late December. Already mentioned that Stu Beard smacked him down um forty that is last week, and San Francisco is prior three games that were shutting down opposing quarterbacks, but they were playing the NFC East in those three games. That's the j V of the

NFL over to the San Francisco side. Not a ton to talk about here, George Kiddle will give him a B. The Ram seven only allowed the eighth most yards at tight ends, but they have yielded the sixth most targets to the position, so a player of Kittle's caliber should be able to capitalize on his opportunities. Uh. He played in both games against the Rams last year logged two solid stat lines eight catches for a hundred and three yards and then five catches for seventy nine yards and

a touchdown. Pretty safe floor for Kittle if he's on the field, no matter who he plays. Deebo, Samuel and Brandon I look both on the bench. Opposing wide receivers are averaging less than twelve catches and a hundred and thirty five yards per game has a whole against the Rams this year. Only two wide receivers have managed to top eighty yards. Only one wide receiver has scored against the Rams. That was Stefon Diggs. So Samuel and a Yuk on the bench, and so is Jimmy g uh.

He should make his return this week. I expected to start only totally one passing touchdown across two games against the Rams last year. And the last time he played, he looked like dog s he he did. Yeah, not because of injury. You looked alf So you know. They claimed that the ankle wasn't right, but there was a lot not going right with Jimmy Garoppolo. And lastly, let me mention raheem most real quick, I'm gonna put him on the bench. He did take over lead back duties

uh last week, but it's a tough matchup. Since Week three, l A has held opposing running backs to sixty nine rushing yards per game, and no back has scored via ground or aired during that span. Oh okay, when we come back, I was trying to decide if I wanted to get Kansas City Buffalo into this one or the next one. I think we got time. We got time. We'll do it. We'll do it next, We'll do it next segment. We'll tell you what to expect. Icole Hardman steps in for Sammy Watkins. Is he a guy you

can pick up and play? My fingers are crossed. You'll get to find out. Next segment. Video game, video games. That's my other show. Video game number is Yeah, we'll go with that. Fantasy Football Weekly returns when we come back. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly Finals segment. As we do in every final segment of the show, we begin with

premature speculation up. Paul Charchie can follow me on Twitter at Paul Jarchi and my co hosts are Brian Johnson at b t x J and Matt Harrison at Explosive Output on Twitter and by the way, if you're some kind of up and coming enterprise out there and you want b t x J, it's for sale. Definitely for sale, because it's a rarity now to have a four letter they're all gone. You can't get a four digit. No. I don't think you can Twitter handle it. I don't.

I don't think you can. It's I don't know. I don't know what the resale value of b t x J would be. I mean it sounds like it could be a stock ticker symbol. Well, like your your best hope is that, like you know, Boston Jerry, I don't know, some some company with has those letters goes public, Boston Technical X ray Corp. Yeah, your operation, we'll go with that. Prematures Avaculation. These are three players we believe you want to pick up this week that will end up being

in high demand next week. But they're already going to be on your team because we've used we've used the time machine obviously, because I've used that, reached an example of success with this segment. Um, Yeah, that would be Chase Claypool. Good job, Scott Fish. Tip of the hat to Scott Fish. All right, Brian, who is your premature speculation player. All Right, I don't have a ton of fancy stats to throw at you here about Philip Rivers, other than so far he has four passing touchdowns and

five interceptions. I'm not saying to pick up Philip Rivers, but leading into my prespect. Okay, alright, okay, good, I've watched dodged a bullet there, thought I need a new co host. I've watched more Colts than I would have liked you. So far. They are a good team, but it's not because of Philip Rivers. He essentially throws the ball into the ground or away from the receiver. Imagine like Magneto from the X Men with anti magnetic powers, and you throw a magnet at him. That's like Philip

Rivers trying to hit t Y Hilton downfield. Who who is your who is your premature? Took Kobe Brissette because if the Colts want to get serious about making a deep playoff run him being a real contender, they have to get geriatric Philip Rivers out from under center. Put in Jegobi Brissette, who has proven he is able NFL quarterback with well, have you watched Philip whatever he has been bad? He beyond bad and they're trying to save

egg on their face and indie. So in super flex leagues, if you're media quarterback, just stashed Brissette now because he deserves a shot because the Rivers. It's awful. It's a it's a sign when the head coach has to spend his week explaining who his quarterback is going to be

in the next game. So I actually think you're right if you're in a two quarterback league or QB flex lead league where these guys are at a premium and you're just trying to find a warm body playing quarterback the next the next quarterback, the next backup who probably gets about non injury. Yeah, good chances, right, Yeah, definitely. How about some fantasy trades in real life since the trade deadlines not for a couple of weeks. Still, what about Matt Ryan to the Colts? That would be kind

of interesting for a rebuild. And Falcons lose this week, they are absolutely they're going quarterback. They're going Trevor Lawrence. You're gonna go Trevor Lawrence. So they're checked out. How about this the reunition reunition, I can dig it. Carson Wentz and Frank Reich. The Eagles love to trade their quarterbacks. It could happen. It could. I'm not I wouldn't rule anything out right now. Uh, Matt, you're premature speculation player.

Mike Williams is my guy, and it might be slightly late to premature speculate as Italian a hundred nine yards and two scores last Monday in New Orleans. However, the Chargers are on a bye this week, which kind of depressed the pickups in many leagues. Um in ESPN, he went from thirty four percent owned before Waivers ran to only owned, so there's still some room here. Out of there by they get Jacksonville, Denver, and Vegas, all of

which are really good matchups for the wide receiver. By the way, the Chargers do not have a difficult passing matchup on their schedule the rest of the fantasy year. Their next difficult matchup is Week seventeen against Kansas City. We're not playing and that includes a playoff run of Atlanta, Vegas, and Denver again. Pick up Chargers passing game right now. Foolishly, many fantasy owners have given up on Zack Moss. You're going to regret the man decision. He is being dropped

outright in many, many fantasy leagues. I'd like to remind you of how Zach Moss this season is gone. Week one, his very first NFL experience, he scored a touchdown. Week two, he suffered a turftoe injury. Hasn't seen the field since. He comes back now to an offense that has tried to run with Devin Singletary, and as he proved on Tuesday Night, Devin Singletary is not meant to be a workhorse back. Ain't happen. He is a change of pace back, period,

end of story. The reason they drafted Zack Moss was for him to be the lead back and single to Singletary to be the change of pace guy. So Zack Moss being dropped all those places, he is available now. And for people who think he's not good because you really haven't seen him yet, I'll remind you that last year alone, at a college season, he put up fifteen hundred yards and fifteen touchdowns and was named the Pack twelve Offensive Player of the Year. He is really good.

He can catch, he can run inside, and he would be the goal line running back for the Buffalo Bills. Zack Moss now chart I know your favorite kid is Jono Smith, but Zack Moss has got to be pretty close to second. And and you're you're just you've just had him in the in the hospital for a while. And that Matt tried to lowball me on Zack Moss the other day and ried to you, you have the explosive output name. Well, I can't help him. See, That's why he always thinks my trade things are terrible. Trade

with you anymore. All right, let's get to our final set of matchups, including Kansas City taking on Buffalo for Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, and Travis Kelsey A grades across the board, but let me tell you, I get very close to giving Patrick Mahomes the rare B grade for him. This offensive line has not played well and starting guard Collecchio smile tore tendons in both knees. He's out, Sammy Watkins is out. And the Bills should have star cornerback

tradevious White back. I mean this is this does not bode well for this Kansas City passing attack. Fortunately for Mahomes, his most important wide receiver, Tyreek Hill, works out of the slot a lot, and the one place trade Avious White doesn't go is he does not play the slot, So Hill is going to face a far easier matchup against Terron Johnson, who allows a passer rating of one

hundred four in his coverage. But mahomes Is most exploitable matchup is with Travis Kelsey against the league's worst tight end defense. The Bills rank dead last in tight end receptions allowed, dead last in tight end yards allowed. Monster game coming from Travis Kelsey, and that is why Patrick Mahomes retains an A grade. Nicole Hardman is a potential starter here with Sammy Watkins out, he should see an

uptick in usage. Last week with Watkins missing much of the game, Nicole Hardman posted season highs and snap count and play percentage. Where Hardman gets tricky is he'll thout draw Tradavius White on the outside. It's not a matchup.

I want so watch trads White's injury status. If White doesn't go, will bump Hardman up to a B. If Tredavius White is going, then I think Nicole Hardman is nothing more than a dart throw CE grade and you're probably best off leaving him on the bench because Tradevias White is awesome. Let's go to the Buffalo side of

this matchup. We'll begin with Josh Allen. Until last Tuesday, well really up and through this week, Alan has faced arguably the league's easiest passing schedule, so it's a little concerning that he regrets against the Titans, and he now faces the best past defense you've seen this year Kansas City. The chief secondaries at full strength with the return of Brashad Breland will talk about more in a minute, and Allen's receivers will face solid coverage at all points of

the field. The Chiefs are allowing only two hundred thirty nine passing yards per game. That's six best, and prior to their laps against Derek Carr last week, inexplicable laps. Might I add, no quarterback had thrown for more than one touchdown in a game against the Chiefs, So I have just a B grade on Josh Allen in this game.

Be great on Steph Diggs. Through five games, he ranks fourth in reception, second in yards, and likely won't slow down this week, especially if John Brown continues to miss games. And we think John Brown is going to go into this one. He's off the injury report. Kansas City has surrendered the seventh fewest fantasy points to opposing receivers, and dig should face chart various West most oftening coverage. He's been mostly good, but he did yield ninety two yards

in his score last week against Oakland. But mostly he's been a lot better than that. Be great on Steph Diggs. Let's go to John Brown off the injury report, but you do want to just stay alert here because calf injuries do tend to flare up at the last minute. Now. Prior to his injuries, Brown was great in weeks one and two. As a reminder, he scored in both games. He runs predominantly from the outside, where he'll most often match up against bad Brian, probably the best coverage corner

that the Chiefs have. In Briland's one game back from suspension, you may remember Bishad Brian Marian self described marijuana enthusiasm missed four games due to suspension for marijuana. Yeah, oddly enough, UM, in his one game back, he was great. UM he allowed he is allowed bhot Brian three touchdowns in his coverage over the past three seasons, including this season, which really is only one game, so really it's three touchdowns in two seasons. That's still awfully good. So John Brown,

just the C grade. Let's talk about the running backs, Dev Singletary. It was mostly invisible on Tuesday night, which is worrisome, and here's Zack Moss lurking. As I mentioned earlier, Fortunately a very positive matchup for Singletary. Four of the five starting running backs Kansas City has faced have either posted one hundred Combo yards or scored or done both. Pro Football Focus ranks the Chiefs run defense twenty four and their five yards per carry ranks twenty in the league.

But is Devin Singletary the lead back? I think t J. Yelden should have been the lead back after Yelden did look better than Devin Singletary. Or is it Zack Moss and Singletary? By the way, C grade, Zack Moss, You're gonna have to speculate. I as much as I like Zack Moss, I can't tell you how much his workload is going to be. But I can tell you that

he was full partisanate in practice all week. Presumably this turf toe is finally behind him and he's ready for a decent workload for really what would be the first time in his career I'm hoping that he gets to ten to twelve ish touches, and if that happens that I think he will earn the C grade I'm giving Zack Moss, but I don't know that that's going to

be the case. Again, this Chief's run defense is bad, and if Zack Moss is gonna get ten to twelve touches at five yards per carry, we're sitting at a C grade and a possible touchdown for the guy who should be the goal line back if Josh Allen does not run one hand. So you're saying this week, Zack Moss has to earn your S grade. I'm saying I'm giving him a C grade because we don't equivocate with our grades. Final segment, Our final matchup of this show,

Green Bay taking on Tampa Bay. This is a star laden game with the return of Davante Adams, Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, both of these offenses fully healthy, all the stars on the field. Who do you like, Well, don't you like? I like Aaron Jones. I'm giving him an A grade even in a scenario where defense is really good against the run as Tampa Tampa is awesome against the Ron Jones is matchup proof right now. The Bucks are allowing almost eight receptions in fifty seven yards to

the running back position through the air. Those are both bottom seven in the league, and Jones is third amongst runners and targets per game, fifth in receptions and sixth and receiving yards per game, So that keeps him in play with an A Aaron Rodgers, he gets an A. He's basically the top quarterback in the league right now, third in yards per game, first and touchdown basses per game.

Tampa stats against the past look improved, but when you have the ghost of Drew Brees, Jeff Driscoll, Brett Rippon, and Nick Foles on the schedule, it's not super difficult to look above average. By the way, Teddy Bridgewater and Justin Herbert each torch to this defense, and I expect Rogers to do the same, especially with Davante Adams back. And of course he's getting an A grade eight and a half receptions for ninety six yards per game before

getting hurt. He's healthy, and to me, that means the rest of the passing game probably goes back to the bench. I'm not, to Robert tanyan believer quite yet when Davante Adams and Allen Lazard are both out of the lineup. Shre Tanyan is averaging three touchdowns per game, but he has scored in the other two games played this year. But he was barely targeted in the game against the Lions when Adam was still playing, only had two targets

in that game. I've bagged on him enough. I'd like to see him perform in a game where Rogers was healthy and had some receivers before I give him a starting grade. Tampa's injury report going into Friday morning had Evans for net Godwin, Gronk McCoy, and Scottie Miller all on it. A couple of those guys dropped off. It's weird, so it seems like they needed extra rest. I guess, so Tom Brady, let's start with him on a per game basis. Brady is top ten in the league in

yards and touchdowns. Since the Packers seemed to score, it will it's likely going to be a shootout, and the pack have obliged to allow some decent numbers on the season to opposing quarterbacks. Every quarterback who who has faced them has top two hundred forty yards three of the four have thrown for multiple scores, So I'm giving Brady a B. Mike Evans is getting a B grade. Uh he scored a touchdown in every game this season and the Packers are giving up almost a touchdown and a

half per game to wide receivers. His ankle injury is not believed to be serious now. Chris Godwin, on the other hand, I'm only going to give him a C grade in this one. I'm still nervous that the hamstring injury that has taken him out of games twice now this year, that's one that lingers and I know that he can report, and I want to believe he's fully healthy. He's practicing, he practicing full on Friday, he did practice

in full on Friday. I'm just still nervous that that that those hamstring injuries are tricky and and and they can come back, and I just want to yeah, it really is. So I'm going to give him a C grade. You can upgrade it to a B if you're feeling better. But uh, yeah, I'm just a little nervous there. And I'm not going to contest or be on Evans. But Jiro Alexander slowly becoming arguably the top shutdown corner in

the NFL. So here he really is. It's just Evans scores in every game, even if they're one catch for one yard and one touchdown. That's how Evans roll. I wouldn't bend Evans. But would you see Gyr Alexander on the other side. Yeah, take caution not going as far as Scotty Miller or Tyler Johnson. The Packer only allowing twelve receptions per game to wide receivers this year. And then Gronk and Cameron bred I have them both on

the bench. I think Bright outscores Gronk for the rest of the year, by the way, but neither of them will score in this game. The Packers haven't allowed a tight end touchdown in their past nine games. Here's why. Here's why I disagree with you on both Godwin and Evans. I would upgrade both of them. I have Godwin as an A grade. You know, the Packers defense on paper, I think looks better than it is. They've managed to dodge Kenny Golladay who they missed, Michael Thomas who they missed.

They played, Julio Jones and Calvin ridd and Jones left immediately and really limped through the game. I just think this is a more other than Jay are Alexander. I think this is a much more susceptible. Uh. I can hear that argument we read then we realize right now and you know, if if god one has removed from the injury part, I want to believe that I don't have to sweat that that hamstring popping back up again. So I've actually got him inside my top ten receivers

and I've got an A grade on him. But that's just me. I got a We've got a couple of minutes left, and I want to shoot a couple of questions of you guys. You're Clyde Edwards, a layer owner. Are you selling now for fifty cents on the dollar or you're gonna hold and just hope things shake out in your favor. In Redraft, I think I would sell for fifty cents on the dollar and try to get something back because I don't think he's going to be

a league winner unless Bell gets hurt. And granted Bill might not be all that great, but he still as gas in the tank. But in Dynasty, I think you got to hold and to see what you got moving for next year. It was alarming that they didn't get a lot of press leading up to the draft, but supposedly at l s U they had like a rotation at the goal line among the running backs just because c h wasn't getting it done and he's not getting

it done in the pros. So draft I was ready to assume Clyde Edwards Hilaire would not get a lot of goal line use. Didn't necessarily care. I'd like to buy at fifty cents on the dollar right now on Clyde Edwards Hilaire, mostly because let's just stash him on the bench. Levan Bell has a has a real injury history, plus not that good. We're looking at a Week sixteen matchup with the Atlanta Falcons, and I'm adding as many Chiefs as I can and I'll stash him on the

Big three weeks. They also have a Miami Week four teen game, which is another good playoff matchup. I like that too. All right, Uh, If you'd like to get more of what you've heard here, go to Guillotine leagues dot com. All my player rankings available for free. Also, most days we are creating brand new Guillotine Leagues You can join the fun of the Guillotine League, the hottest, freshest, new format and fantasy sports Guillotine at leagues dot com.

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