Is Tank Dell Due for a Big Game? | The Biggest Fantasy Questions for Week 3 + Fantasy Football Over/Unders w/ Colin Cowherd (Ep. 1367)

Hello, everybody. Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. I'm Ryan Warmley, joined on this Friday morning by debro and by fits. It's Derek Brown and Pat fitz Morris. I'm just using their nicknames. Deever, how are you feeling on this Friday morning?

Oh good man, it was a good Thursday night. I know a lot of Patriots fans are not happy, but I went five and one in betting, so I mean there are things to complain about.

My Wallett is not one of them this morning.

Fitz, you've watched a lot of vintage Aaron Rodgers in your day. Did you feel like we were getting back to that last night?

He looked pretty good. He even looked a little nimble on a couple of runs. So that was nice to see because I thought he looked kind of a mobile in week week one, like maybe this was going to be a concern. But no, he did look pretty good. So good for Jets fans. They had a rough twenty twenty three. They deserve something like this.

We'll see how long it lasts. Knowing the way Jets fans typically have to suffer, it might not last too long, but for now, it did look very good here to kick off week three. This is our Friday Show four Week three. It's our key Question show. We're going to be going through our ten biggest questions on the Week three slate and trying to answer them and seeing what we think and what we expect out of this week of fantasy football. Hard to believe it's already Week three,

Well, I will say that this is the Shanahan offense and it's working throughout the league. I do think they cool off a little. I mean, at some point, you know, trees don't grow to the sky, as stock market pickers say, like, you just don't play this well forever. But I don't think it's a mirage. I think they've added speed on the perimeter. I think Alvin Kamara is off to a great start and has been a great back when used properly.

You mentioned folks not really believing the Eagles defense. The lasting memory we have at the Eagles defense right now is that Monday night finish.

So that last drive was a layup drill for Kirk Cousins. I mean it was just seven on seven down the field.

Yeah, one hundred percent. So we'll see. We'll see if the Saints keep this up. Another quarterback we wanted to hit on Lamar Jackson at Dallas. He's up at twenty three point three fantasy points per game so far on DraftKings, a bit down in Week two, but still number two across the first two weeks of the season, behind only Baker Mayfield. Actually ISAA Ravens fan personally, I'm a bit worried about what Michael Parsons is about to do to

Well?

They I believe they lead the NFL in yards. They're a toe away from beating Kansas City and Arrowhead. This is a go either way game. I like Baltimore because I like Lamar in big spot if you take out the Kansas City Chiefs. He has a nineteen and fourteen record against playoff teams in his career. Now that includes the Chiefs, so if you take the Chiefs out, it's obviously much better. Dak is not good against playoff teams in his career, So I like Baltimore in this game.

Up a little. Let's get to the running backs. You already kind of alluded to him a little when we were talking about Derek Carr. Alvin Kamara is in this week's challenge as well, obviously, also going up against the Eagles. He's up at thirty four and a half Fantasy points per game now, obviously a lot of that is carried by his ridiculous explosion in Week two, but it's just been a very excellent start to the season. He looks really good to the eye test in my opinion as well.

No, because I think I will say this is where I think the Saints slow down, So the Eagles back end. You have to make choices against the Saints, right, you have to pick something to stop in Shanahan's offense. And I think if I was Philadelphia on a short week, I would pick stopping Alvin Kamara. I'd say, let Derek Carr be me over the top. I'll take my chances. I think Philadelphia's entire game plan is we have got

Josh Jacobs is another running back in this week's challenge, going up against the Titans. Obviously, the Packers, you know, pulled out a win despite having Mlik Willis starting at quarterback. Did you see anything out of this offense that makes you think we're gonna see, you know, anything different from Jacobs or is this going to be just another I mean, assuming it's Milik Willis. I guess they're still talking about as at the time of this recordy Jorian Love maybe playing,

I see usage, but not production. Tennessee's defense is really good. It's a really really good defense. And with Jordan Love playing, I believe he practiced this week, They're gonna limit his exposure. They're gonna run the football. I don't know if they're gonna have a lot of success. So I think Green Bay they've got tremendous off remps of weapons. But this is a do we play him or not decision? Right, And my guess is, if it's Willis playing, they're gonna

You've been a bit of a downer, you know, in the last couple of games. I'm curiously if we will be for this next matchup, James Connor against the Lions. I love this Cardinals Lions game. I am so excited to watch up. It is my favorite matchup of the week. James Connor has over twenty fantasy points per game on DraftKings this season. They do project Detroit to be the number one rushing defense for Week three. What do you think Connor can do against them?

I think he's going to succeed. I think Marvin Harrison having such a good game scares Detroit because McBride's an exceptional tight end. So again, when you face Arizona, you have to make choices. You're gonna play spy defense with Kyler Murray, you may Detroit may roll over coverage with Harrison. You have to take McBride seriously, and these weapons aren't going away. I think Connor's going to have a very big year.

I think he's an.

Excellent player, So I think Arizona. I think when you have a generationally elusive quarterback, with a top tight end, with an emerging star at wide receiver, it's made for running backs to have good seasons. I think Connor is going to have a pro Bowl level season.

On the other side, you we'll go to the wide receivers here on the other side of this matchup am and Ross Saint Brown against the Cardinals. Saint Brown just fifteen Fantasy points per game so far this season, outside the top twenty, surprisingly from where he was being drafted. What do you expect from him on the other side of this one.

I think he has a big game. You're going to get into. You're not going to hold down Arizona. Detroit's not going to keep Arizona to fourteen points. So Detroit's going to have to score. Plus when you're on the road against in Arizona, they play pretty well at home. Even if you get a lead, you're going to keep the foot on the pedal. Also, Ben Johnson has not had a couple of great weeks so Detroit. Even though Detroit beat the Rams, I think Detroit feels like they've

To play well. Those are our favorite picks for Week three. We'll try and keep the good times roll in College and remember everybody can play Fantasypros dot Com Slash Challenge. Thanks again for joining As always, thanks again to Colin for joining us every week this season. Make sure to check out Fantasypros dot Com Slash Challenge to participate in our over under challenge every week this season and have a chance to a beat Colin and be win cool prizes.

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Seeing Nico outside of him stepping up as the clear wide receiver one. I think it's gonna lean more in Tank Dell's direction this week. I mean, you look at the coverage shells for the Vikings, a lot of two high second highest rate in the NFL. Actually, excuse me, the highest rate almost seventy nine percent of their snaps, and that's lean more in Dell's direction almost seventeen percent target share. So I think, looking at just the coverage matchup, I do lean in Dell's direction.

Although I will give a little bit of a nod that.

Diggs does have a really good corner matchup against Biro Murphy.

But if I got to pick one, it's dope for me.

Fits What do you think?

I feel like I have to defer to deebro on the coverage stuff, But I also think with some of the stuff that Brian Flores does trying to get pressure home against quarterbacks, maybe that means like Diggs has been kind of the low a don guy. His average depth of target has been pretty short. So maybe if the

Do you think the squeaky wheel game could comfort for Dell as well? Again, maybe not publicly like complaining, but only four catches this season for under forty yards.

Yeah, you just missed out on a big touchdown last week. So you know it's coming like that's the thing, especially if Nico and Maya Kalpa, Like I faded Nico and obviously shouldn't have. I just thought it would be a more equal split of targets. But clearly Nico has taken the crown as the alpha receiver for the Texans well deserved. He's he's a star, So I don't know, the other guys are maybe gonna have to be happier with lower target chairs like Diggs. Digs average close to ten targets

Here, Deebro, you know, fits kind of alluded to this. I was gonna ask, are you, like surprised by how much Nico has looked like you now for given the other target competition in this offense.

I mean, I'm not surprised that he's playing really well. I guess if there is any surprising factor of like I was in on Nico or Dell in draft season, both those guys, depending.

On you know, where they were going in drafts.

But I think if anything's been surprising, it's how much he's distanced himself from those two.

And some of this.

Does kind of go back to the coverage matchups, so maybe we see that lean in the other direction, especially with Nico. He's been on the injury report this week. I know that he's still going to play, but I've been a little bit surprised just how big the chasm has been.

Though.

Let's go to our next game here, Bears at Colts. Anthony Richardson's completion percentage through two games is below fifty percent. The possibility for a big play is always there, of course, but do we have to sit Colts pass catchers mainly referring to Michael Pittman until further notice given what the passing has looked like specifically fits What do you think about that one?

So I have Pittman ranked wide receiver twenty seven this week, And yeah, Richardson is a below average NFL passer at this stage of his career, and that's a concern for the pass catchers tied to him, especially a guy like Pittman who doesn't really make a lot of big players or score many touchdowns, so he really needs catch volume

Dee Bro, what do you think about the Colts pass catchers right now? And obviously Alec Pierce has been a pleasant surprise, has been on the back, so he's been good, big plays, you know. Pittman has been a disappointment. But again, it's hard when you're completing under fifty percent of your passes to have multiple effective pass catchers. So what are you doing with you know, again, particularly Pittman because he's kind of the main guy, would be interested in starting in a vacuum.

I think it's two games, and I think if any of the I'm not going to say it's luck because Alec Pearce is playing extremely good, But if Michael Pittman would have walked away with either one of those stat lines over the first two games and not the games that he's had, people would feel quite different about it. And Pittman's still getting a lot of volume, man, like I mean, twenty eight percent targets here, thirty one percent first reach here. He hasn't done much with it. But

But by the way, just because Fits brought it up on the run defense, do you think deebro DeAndre Swift is gonna kind of break out for scout because I faded him all draft season I've had I've really had no interest in him at his costs, and I know the Colts run defense in particular has been absolutely abysmal, But I just still don't find myself that excited about Swift. Am I like overlooking the matchup in that sense?

Nope, I think you're spot on. I mean Swift, It's not just that he hasn't done anything. His offensive line is not doing anything. You want to talk about the crooks of all the issues in Chicago right now, And we talked about that on this show during the offseason, while everybody was staring at all the shiny new toys heading to Chicago, we were all talking about like, Okay, well the offensive line is still a concern.

They didn't do anything there. So I'm not in on DeAndre Swift.

I think if DeAndre Swift keeps stinking it up, Khalil Herbert is going to make himself known and more present in this backfield than he has been in the first two weeks. That's gonna happen because he's definitely a much better rusher of the football. So no, I'm not in on Swift. I don't have a lot of hope there. I do think because like the point that Pat brought up, if we see anything, I'm not gonna say out.

Of the weeds emerge this week.

I think Caleb Williams could have a little bit of a bounce back and show some hope or some faith this week.

Considering the matchup, let's.

Go to our next question here, this is I'm kind of looping in two games together. One of them is Giants at Brown's. The other one is Lions at Cardinals. He questioned Malik Neighbors and Marvin Harrison Junior both really a arrived with huge week twos. You know, Neighbors wasn't terrible in week one, but he didn't get the usage we liked. Obviously, we know what happened with Marvin Harrison Junior in week one. Week two entirely different story. Both

Start with you here, Marvin Rison Junior.

I think it's the matchup as well as I mean as well as you want to talk about quarterback play.

Either way, I'm.

Not saying I'm fading elite Neighbors, but we just got to talk. You know, mention what it is. It's an uphill battle. I mean, you've got Daniel Jones gonna hold him down this week as well as the outside corners for Cleveland are good. So for me, it's Marvin Rison Junior. And yes, he was absolutely fantastic in week two. I mean, good lord man, a thirty eight percent target chare. He had almost seventy percent of the freaking area yards. Yeah, I've got Marvin Arson Junior right now ranked as a

Fit's what do you think about these two rookies for this week?

I'm running counter to Debro and counter to ECR here. I've got Milak Neighbors ranked wide receiver sixteen and Marvin Harrison ranked wide receiver seventeen. Way below consensus on Marvin. And it's not that I don't like Marvin, but thirty eight percent target share, Debro, I mean Milik Neighbors sixty four percent target share last week.

We're comparing size here, man, Yeah he is, he is.

Already that the star attraction in Brian Dables' offense and Harrison is great, but is target share is twenty one percent for the season. That's fine. You can be a star with the target shair between twenty and twenty five percent. And I know I'm way below consensus on Harrison was last week, and I got burned in the rankings for that. I think the difference here is that Harrison is just one component in a healthy and robust Arizona Cardinals offense.

Burritos are elite. Oh you're selling me on, Neighbors.

I'm hungry now, good lord, I'm recording this in the morning. I haven't had breakfast.

Now, I bet gotta you gotta go to Torchi.

I was gonna say, Pat, I got real quickly your perfect idea of your perfect breakfast burrito.

What is in that burrito? I need to know?

Uh, scrambled eggs, Theresa Pepper's cheese. I'm good with that some sort of.

Pat wins today.

That one's yes, I've actually got right now in the fridge and I will be eating it after we finished recording this. My dad makes these amazing like seafood breakfast enchiladas. It's got like shrimp and crab meat and eggs and bacon and chilada sauce and cheese. And you know, when I moved out, he like taught me how to make them because they were like my favorite food used to make. But whenever you make them, you make like fifteen of them and they're huge. So I have them for like

Act Bacon with you had me at bacon with seafood, Man, It's.

It's like fits and chorizo. That's the one. I want to breakfast burritos.

If I'm doing with breakfast burrito, I keep it simple. I'm just baking egg and cheese with some hot sauce

Twelve Debro, Yeah, he would be.

If it was an average to below average defense, I think he the floor is top fifteen and probably put respect on his name, probably as as a wide receiver one.

Okay, yeah, and Fit's obviously it's not an average defense that it's going against. But I just wanted to kind of highlight that he has kind of, at least in my opinion, earned the right to be ranked higher. This is just a particularly tough matchup.

For sure, and I think both Molikue Neighbors and Marvin Harrison Junior are going to be first round Fantasy draft picks in twenty twenty five.

Agree with Thattal, I totally agree as well. We're consensus across the board. Let's go to the next game here, Packers at Titans. Maybe not the most intriguing matchup, assuming it's Milk Willis again. As of right now, I guess they're still leaving open up the possibility it could be Jordan Love. I'm still kind of operating under the assumption it won't be. Maybe that's pessimistic. I just can't see

If it is Malik Willis again, I think you have to sit all of the Green Bay pass catchers with the possible exception of Jaden Reid, just because they are fond of manufacturing easy touches for him with little wide receiver screens reverses. Reid had two catches for nine yards and two rushes for thirty seven yards last week against the Cults, Willis only had fourteen pass attempts in that game.

Dee Bro, what do you think? And can we expect another you know, sixty carr I know as a sixty carries but ridiculous usage for Josh Jacobs again.

Yeah, I think we're gonna get twenty five plus carries for Jacobs this week. And I'm with I'm with Fitzy on this one. The media is pushing this extremely hard. Jordan Love is not playing this week. Anybody that's watched the practice footage like he's not moving around good enough to play quarterback and not only just like to be functional on the offense, but to keep himself upright, you know, to do what he needs to do to avoid tacklers and stuff. So I think Malik Willson is definitely going

A little bit.

I'm not starting any Green Bay Packers pass catcher. Like to FITs' point, it's not enough passing volume, and you want to talk about like only fourteen pass attempts. That was a it's a good matchup of the secondary. We just talked about how bad the Colts are as a past defense. What are they gonna do when it's Tennessee, And that past defense is even better than what they faced last week the seven attempts eight.

It's bad.

Yeah, it's it's funny because you know, Deebro and I kind of spent the off season warning people that Matt Lafleur really doesn't like to go to just one workhorse running back, and then we get the runout we've had with Marshaun Lloyd going on injured reserve and Jordan Love hurt, and last week Josh Jacobs thirty two carries the most by any Green Bay Packer running back in a single game since Ryan Grant in two thousand and eight.

That's a stat pole right there, Josh Jacobs going full Dereck Henry mode.

Yeah, no, I mean he's Jacob's is somebody that I at cost was fading during draft season, and obviously the EU signe has just been way more, way, way higher than anticipated. Obviously from that stat All right, let's go to the next game here, Eagles at Saints. My question here is can Philly be the team to finally slow down this Saints offense? They have been amazing. They have scored every time that Derek Carr has been leading a drive.

Train is keep rolling down the truck baby, and they are not slowing them down. I've actually been very disappointed in the Philadelphia Eagles pass defense through two games. And let's just put the stop for just a second and put a little bit more respect on Derek Carr's name.

He is a QB two in Fantasy.

QB two in Fantasy he leads the NFL in yards per attempt, passer rating CPOE, and fantasy points per dropback as bonkers, like, there is no way, shape, form, or fashion. And I think it was even a little bit pro Derek car towards the end of the draft season and stuff. Nobody could have told you this is what was gonna happen in the first two weeks. And I don't think Philly is gonna be able to stop them at all.

No pass rush.

They legit have the seventh lowest pressure rate in the NFL. So clean pockets, secondary not playing good. Let's go just air it out. Saints put up some points.

Fitz, what do you think we're gonna get from the SANTSU seek another forty burger?

I don't know about that, but yeah, Echoing Deebro's thoughts on the Eagles, I mean, we just saw the Falcon zip down field and no time lickety split at the end of that game on Monday Night to score the game winning touchdown against the Eagles pass defense, Like Quinjon Mitchell might end up being a really good ATFL cornerback, but he alone was not going to fix a secondary just completely melted down over the second half of last season.

Them quick quick question, boys, do you think Clint Kubiak gets a head coaching job next year?

Because I do. If this keeps happening, he's gonna get some interviews.

I think he definitely will get interviews. I like that. I think that is an absolute lock. The only reason I would not say definitively gets like an actual coaching job is just because we did see. Like obviously, Ben Johnson's been there a couple of years. He decided to say Bobby Slowick, didn't you know he interviewed, but then didn't get that job right away. So maybe teams are like being a little more patient and wanted to see it for like one more year out of these young

Yeah, it's it's early, but so far this offense looks great. We know it's not gonna look this perfect all season long, but so far it's just been a.

Really they're making every game look like Alabama against Wisconsin fits Oh oh, my call the police has been a murder.

I think I think Alabama did better than six point eight yards per play against the Baddress last week. But yes, thank you.

What do you think do you think Kubiak is getting a job after this season?

I do.

I think he's probably gonna. I think he's gonna get a lot of interviews. And I think the thing about what Slowick and Ben Jonson, both of them, it seemed more like situations where they went back to their respective teams, like they didn't want to be head coaches just yet. So and I think it was both good moves for both those coordinators. But I think I Kubiak's gonna do interviews and stuff like that. I think he definitely can get a job.

Is there a spot you'd most likely to see him? Oot?

So just off the time, No, let me see, I was gonna say, I think Denver's the low hanging fruit. I think that Sean I don't even know if Sean Payton makes it through the entire season. Guys, Like, is that crazy of me to think that, like Sean Payton could get fired in season, like if they continue to book is hapless. I mean, it's it's looked rough so far, but looking down the other teams, Oh, here's a good one. If Chicago continues to stick it up that he can

The other one that I would like would be Jacksonville. If this thing continues to go.

Because Doug Peterson feels like he has no clue what he's doing, I.

Would really agree with that. Seared with with Trevor Lawrence.

Yeah, and those weapons.

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All right, guys, question number six, Chargers at Steelers. It is an unstoppable force JK. Dobbins against an unimmovable object Steelers defense. Who wins, Debro.

It's gonna be JK. Dobbins. He's gonna win. And Dude, I just continue to be.

Floored by what he's doing right now. I mean, he's the RB four in fantasy. That's just crazy, man. And it's not just like, Okay, the offensive line is playing extremely good for the Chargers. They are first in yards before contact right now. But outside of that, I mean, Dobbins is near the top in every tackle breaking metric you look at. And it's not only those two factors, but the Steelers run defense can be had. I mean they're giving up the tenth highest miss tackle rate and

This week, Fitz, we talked about a bit about Dobbins on the Thursday show. For the folks who are just listening to the Friday show, what do you expect from him against Pittsburgh.

I'm dialing down expectations a little bit. I mean, he's had more than one hundred and thirty rushing yards with a touchdown in each of his first two games, but he was going against the Raiders and the Panthers, not exactly the stiffest competition, much tougher matchup on the road in Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh is tenth in DVOA, I believe against the run in their two games so far, they held Bejon Robinson the sixty eight rushing yards on eighteen

The Bears can't block anybody, Fitzy, they have.

A couple of gut The interior of the line has been a problem. I still think their tackles are okay, at least in the running game, but yeah, they have had issues. That's that's bad versus bad upfront the trenches in that matchup. But yeah, we'll see this one's good versus good. So maybe maybe that's the wrong call by me.

Whether or not it's correct. I echo Debro's disgust at the thought of Swift being ranked ahead of Dobbins. Wrong or right, But you know I've mentioned this on Thursday. Fits. You know, Dobbins has faced the Steelers three times in his career, and the series always are very good on defense, so this isn't anything new that they're really good defensively this year. In his three games, and you know this one was in twenty twenty, the other two were in

I've got him at RB sixteen and considering what he's been doing, it could be a slight to him.

But I think like mid to high end RB two.

And then fits you're down like back at like low end RB two right.

I think high end RB three right now, and maybe that's a mistake because they are gonna need to give him heavy volume like they have to keep TJ. Watt off justin Herbert. Joe Alt has played great so far, but TJ. Watt is still gonna be a stern test for Joe Alt. So I think they're gonna want to run the ball often, and I don't think you need to talk Greg Roman into running the ball that way.

In ECR. He's much closer to fits by the way, he's RB twenty three in in halfvpr ECR. So most of the industry is a little down again, likely given the matchup, let's go to kind of the reverse of this. A very stoppable force the Raiders run game versus is a very movable object to the Panthers defense. Who loses in this one.

Debro Panthers run defense.

I think looking at just the matchup, and I know it's been bad for Zamir White. I'm not going to shy away from then. I told people to draft him in the off season and chasing the ballume and stuff. Antonio Pierce has still come out and been very adamant about getting Zamir White twenty carries. I think that, and this has been a Raiders offense that has been extremely pass heavy. Didn't see that coming, but I do think that they are going to want to run the ball

Yeah, what do you think fits? I mean, we've talked a lot about how the Panthers are just kind of like an auto start team against them with your running backs. But Zamir White has been bad. I mean I've bean watching that Ravens game. He was abysmal. So do you think that this is kind of his breakout came for the managers who invested in him.

You have to hope because if he does not have a decent fantasy day this week, I think we're going to see Zamir White dropped in a lot of leagues next week. But he's going against a defense that has allowed three hundred and ninety nine rushing yards and three touchdown runs so far, and they don't have our friend Derek Brown at defensive tackle. I know defensive tackle Ashn Robinson was banged up for them. Not sure what his status is. I think he came back to practice, but

To Fitzi's point, Shy tuttle foot injury hasn't practiced one of their d tackles, Ashawn Robinson DMP on Wednesday came back to a limited session with any issue on Thursday.

Sameer White is RB twenty four in ECR right now. That's actually gotten up a couple of days since the start of the week, so he's into back end RB two territory according to the experts. Let's go to Dolphins at Seahawks. This question is really obvious. How low in the rankings are we planning to drop Dolphins players with Skyler Thompson at quarterback? Obviously Tua is now on IR so he's going to miss a chunk of time possibly

Debro, I still got eight Chan as an RB one. I mean, you can't shy away from the volume that he got last week.

There's no way.

I hope that that type of volume doesn't continue. But even twenty touches for devon a Chan, regardless of whoever, even if it was me back there playing quarter is still very valuable in fantasy. Tyreek Hill, I'm gonna have him somewhere as a mid range wide receiver two and Jim and Wattle is a low end two to high end wide receiver three. I just I don't have any faith in Skyer Thompson, and I know that those rankings.

I talked about this with ericson a bit on our TikTok Live earlier this week. How if you remember the probably the worst defensive game Mike McDonald had in Baltimore was against the Dolphins. Now Tua was healthy for that game, which is a big difference, but that was early on

First of all, I'm trying to stop my head from spinning because we have the play calling battle between Mike McDaniel and Mike McDonald's that's gonna get a little complicated this week. But so first of all, come on, man, Tyler Huntley, like he is totally new to the Dolphins system. The one reason I'm kind of holding out hope for Tyreek Hill who have wide receiver seven and Jalen Waddle

Man.

You just you are pinning your hopes on a big play here, and I do think between Hill and Waddle, like they're gonna hit at least one or two.

There's a pretty sizable gap between the two of these guys in ECR. I'm you know, there's always a gap right like Tyreeky's ring tire, Tarak's wide receiver fourteen Jalen

I mean, if we had seen the problem, and I think this is where the gap is coming from, we haven't seen jam and Wattle, Like we all kind of wanted him to bounce back. So far this season, he's only gotten an eleven point eight percent target chare, so that's fair.

I mean, he.

Could still pop off big plays.

I mean he almost has three point zero yards per rount run like he's at two point eight right now, so the talent is still there. But the same problems we had with Wattle last year where it was like, well all of the volume is going to Tyreek Hill, what's left over for Wattle. It's happening again in twenty twenty four. That's why I think we're seeing that wide discrepancy between the two players when we're both saying, okay, both of them have big play upside. It's just the

He's never been a high volume guy though, d R.

I mean, like he he well outside of his rookie year where they made him.

Where he was Jarvis Landery exactly, but he was you know, he missed two games last year and still finished with a thousand yards. He is a dude who can like he's always been hyper efficient, well except for that first year with yards per target, yards per route run. And granted we can't expect that sort of efficiency with Skyler Thompson at quarterback, but I mean, I just like Skyler Thompson can throw a spiral, you know, it's not like

I've seen you throw a spirals spirals fitsy.

You've been quarterback in some of our flag football games on team trips Can And we're not.

Talking about me here. Yeah, No, I can still chuck it.

We're not talking about me, Fitz, did you mention d move? But I can just have Han ranked in his usual spot.

Yeah, run like running back six. I mean what we've seen with him in the passing game like that is really exciting. I don't want to see him get as many carries as he had to to Debro's earlier point, like and I think maybe Mike McDaniel was just on tilt after the two injury that a Chan was still getting carries with like under five minutes left in a

Let's go to the next question here. This is again going to loop two games together Ravens at Cowboys and then going back to Lions at Cardinals. In my opinion, the two most surprising names in the top five of targets through two weeks of the season are Zay Flowers He's number four and Jameson Williams at number five. They have twenty one and twenty respectively. Zay has been double digits both games. Jameson Williams had eleven in one game

Where am I got to give the edge to Jamo? Sorry about that? Maybe mildly surprising that Jay Flowers is among the target leaders flight out shocking that Jamison william is among the target leaders, But like, here's the difference. The average depth of target so far for Jamison Williams twelve point eight yards Zay Flowers six point seven yards.

I don't necessarily disagree fits. I will say today's like yards per reception, Like, I think that's going to that for the first few weeks when there's a small sample size that's getting dragged down by the Chiefs game, he was more like thirteen yards per catch against the Raiders. I think that'll be more in line with how they use him in normal, like non Chiefs games. That's not to say that he should be you know, over Williams,

I think they're both having strong seasons, very very different seasons at all the points that fits he outlined and to your point where I'm zay, Flowers at did increase from six point one to ten point seven a week two, so a little bit more not traditional usage, but a little bit more just not like three yards and a cloud of dust as far as screens and design targets

This is the Jamison.

Williams that, if he would have never torn his acl was the guy that I thought was going to just catch fire and light the league on fire, like as soon as he was healthy. That is what we are seeing, Like he looks so stinking good, and the matchup leans his way. They're using him not only deep, but they're using him all over the field. He's getting short area targets, intermediate targets, and the deep looks as well. I mean,

Then we're going to be ranking Sam Laporta tight end fifteen apparently.

I mean, dude, it's Jamo has been awesome, like him taking or at least did any of us see after two weeks any world where we thought Jamison Williams was going to be fighting weekly for the lead in targets and fighting weekly for the lead in target here with Amara Saint Brown and Sam Laporta, I didn't at all, and I just to me, I'm just bowing down. Jmo has looked so good.

Jamison Williams is up there near the top of the list of guys I have the most fomo of not having more of, and I liked him in draft season. I was not fading him at all. There was always one person in my draft who liked him a little more, and sometimes it's all I could like him the second most out of twelve guys, but if one person likes him more, then I don't get him. So I wish I certainly wish I had more the other thing too, like in terms of the matchup, and you kind of

And to your point, two, Worm, I think this is more of a big Mark Andrews game. I'm gonna I'm gonna call that out over over Zay Flowers this week. Considering the matchup.

Interesting, well, do you think that it could be a likely game and like they use Andrews to block more like could to help out.

I mean, to your point, that's that's what we saw likely.

I mean that was his role, Like he was in the flats, he was getting screens, he was getting designed stuff in week one didn't happen in week two. This could be a game where we see just a lot of usage of Andrews unlikely all day.

I hope, But yeah, that's I do have that same fear worm about the route participation for Andrews. When the Cowboys are so fearsome off the edge like that, that's a little worrisome for me.

Yeah, well, see how it goes. I think it'll be a fun game. These are These are two of my favorite games on the slate, Ravens Cowboys and Lions Cardinals. I think they're both gonna be really fun ones. Let's go to question number ten, Chiefs at Falcons. Fits will start with you here. Will any Chiefs running back be

My initial thought was that this could be a really messy backfield situation, and I'll repeat something I said on one of the shows earlier this week, although I think I got the number wrong, and in two of the last five seasons, I might have said three earlier. Two of the last five, the Chiefs have not had a six hundred yard rusher among their running backs, and I think there's a good chance that happens again this year.

You know.

So, I we talked about this on the Waiver Show. I said I'd rather have some ajp RN. I'm reversing course on that. I'd rather have Carson Steele.

Do you brow, what do you think.

To Fitzi's I love the Asciata callback. I'm sitting here pulling up old Acata box scores. Here in that twenty fourteen season, he had two three touchdown games and another one where he got into the ion zone twice. Good lord, that's a fun time. But I'm with FITZI I think Carson Steele, you're looking at it as a touchdown dependent probably our three this week, and he already got the goal line stuff last week. He got thirty eight percent

Do you think we're gonna finally see Mahomes? You know, on the other side, of this have thirty pass attempts in a game. I mean he hasn't been higher than twenty eight through two weeks this season.

Yep.

I think that the Chiefs are with this injury and stuff. I think that they have been very run heavy and they've been playing slow. I think we see the Chiefs get back to doing what the Chiefs do. I think they're going to pick up the pace. I think they're going to throw more. I think if really the big takeaway for me is I think we are going to see Rashi Rice get peppered weekly, and I think we're going to see Xavier Worthy's floor raised on a weekly basis based off of the injury to Pachecko.

Do you agree with Effets?

Yeah, I mean this is just the way the season has opened up. Is just like for Rashi Rice investors, the best possible scenario Hollywood brown out for the season. Pacheco injured, so they're going to replace some of their running game with the short passing game, and that's like, that's where Rashie Rice has been thriving.

All Right, we'll get out of there on that. Those are our ten biggest questions for Week three. Thank you to face, Thank you to Debro, Thank you to Colin for joining as he does every Friday. For those guys, I'm Ryan Warmley. Thank you for everybody for tuning in and we'll see again next week. Thanks for listening to the Fantasy Pros Fantasy Football podcast. If you love the show, the best freeway to support us is by leaving a positive review on Apple podcasts at Fantasypros dot com, slash review,