0:00Some of the biggest storylines in the NFL season, including one of my absolute favorite players in NFL history returning to fantasy football relevance.
0:07We're going to get to that and much more.
0:10What Mattered in Week 6, Jaylen Knoll deserves more playing time.
0:13I'm starting to get absolutely sick of how the Houston Texans are jerking him around.
0:17I don't understand it at all. They trade for Marvin Harrison Jr.
0:21when the answer to their wide receiver problems is already on the roster.
0:2520.7 PPL points. He does it on only four targets.
0:28He runs a route on 22 of 36 drops.
0:30Marvin Harrison Jr. effectively played in the same role that Kayshawn Booty did in his very first game as a Houston Texan.
0:37He plays 12 snaps, runs a route on nine dropbacks, and then ends up with four targets on those snaps.
0:43Clearly, I do think this is a situation where the team was trying to force the ball to Marvin Harrison Jr.
0:49There was one target near the end zone. I thought if he would have battled for it a little bit more that
0:55he, you know, maybe could have potentially come down with it.
0:58But my guess for this situation is that both Booty and Hutchinson end up getting phased out.
1:03I will be doing some waiver claims this week on Jaylen Knoll.
1:07I just don't see how a player this efficient and this good cannot play.
1:11And that actual distribution of snaps would sort of make sense.
1:14You have Marvin Harrison Jr. on the outside taking the booty role.
1:18You have Nico Collins on the other outside area.
1:20And then you have Jaylen Knoll as the primary slot receiver.
1:24I just don't see why we need Kayshawn Booty.
1:26What is the need for Kayshawn Booty and Jared Wayne for the Houston Texans?
1:30On the Jaguars side of the ball, two massive storylines here.
1:34The first is that Travis Hunter shows up in a real way in this game.
1:38He does only play nine offensive snaps. But the big development for me here is that Brian Thomas Jr.
1:44trended down to 15 offensive snaps, only ran 13 rounds.
1:46One of the things that I have consistently said about Travis Hunter and why I liked him in fantasy is there are
1:53so many ways for Travis Hunter to earn a larger role in offense, right?
1:57The first would be he doesn't play that good on defense.
2:00That actually has not happened. He's been a very good defensive player.
2:04One of the others would be they get unexpectedly good defensive performances from another defensive player.
2:08That does marginally seem to be happening because the Jaguars defense has been so good.
2:13They also have wide receiver injuries to deal with.
2:15And it seems like Brian Thomas Jr. might get traded at this point.
2:19It does not seem that the Jacksonville Jaguars are incentivized to play that guy who had such a good rookie season.
2:25My guess would be over the next few weeks, we actually will see Travis Hunter Jr.'s overall offensive involvement increase.
2:31He scored 15.9 PPR points here with a touchdown.
2:34Brian Thomas Jr. did not play any snaps in the second half.
2:37Now I don't know if he got hurt and it's possible that this is an overreaction to an injury, but I think
2:44for the rest of the season, as these games get more important for the Jaguars as they're battling, I mean, the Jags
2:50are alive for the overall one seed in the AFC.
2:53I think one of the things that we might end up seeing will be Josh Cameron, who is taking over that Brian Thomas Jr.
3:00role, seeing his snaps trend down. And I think, you know, by week 10 or 11, we could have Travis Hunter Jr.
3:07running a route on 40% of dropbacks, which in my opinion would actually make him startable in fantasy football because the thing
3:13that we all lost sight of, well, not everyone, I never lost sight of this, is that Travis Hunter Jr.
3:19is a really, really, really good. I actually don't think he's a junior.
3:23I think I just made that up. My brain is getting crossed here with Brian Thomas Jr.
3:28But I think that Travis Hunter is a really, really good receiver.
3:31His collegiate metrics, his rookie year metrics, all of that stuff to me paints the picture of a guy who is a
3:38very good receiver, very good with the ball in his hands.
3:41So I think I'm buying this trend and I think we will see more of Travis Hunter on offense.
3:47And I think we'll see less of Josh Cameron and Brian Thomas Jr.
3:51The Luther Burden usage in this game was, I guess, depending on your perspective, it was very bizarre.
3:56He only played 30 of 77 offensive snaps, but ends up with eight for 95.
4:00Luther Burden and Colston Loveland have rewarded our patience as fantasy managers.
4:04Roma Dunze is always out there playing in the heavy personnel packages, as is Cole Komet, as is Sam Rausch, and also some Jaday Walker in there.
4:12But Loveland with 18 and a half fantasy points, Luther Burden with 17 that fantasy points, the 14th highest scoring wide receiver
4:18of the week, tight end four for Colston Loveland.
4:21I will be moving Loveland on my rest of season rankings because I think the thing that I said in last week's
4:27what mattered video is true, which is that the Bears have not played a normal game yet.
4:32They did finally play a game that trended a little bit more towards being normal, although they were able to run the
4:39ball so much as one and a half point road favorites that you could argue this game was still not a little bit normal.
4:46But listen to their upcoming schedule. They play the Patriots.
4:49They play the Seahawks. They'll probably easily beat the Buccaneers, but then they play the Lions.
4:53They play the Jaguars. These are finally going to be games.
4:57We might see the Bears trail in a game.
4:59They just have not trailed in these games. They've been, we have not seen a 50, you know, a 50 drop that game from Caleb Williams.
5:07My guess, and I am very, very certain that I'm right about this, is that as the Bears eliminate some of these
5:13heavy personnel packages, we are going to see Burden's overall route rate and snap rate increase.
5:18I mean, it's insane that he was able to have such a great game on only 18 routes, but I don't think this is sticky.
5:25I think that Luther Burden is going to increase in route share and increase in snap share, not decrease, because I don't think Ben Johnson is an idiot.
5:33And I think that he knows that Luther Burden is his best wide receiver, which is why he is targeted so often when he is on the field.
5:42And the same deal with Colston Loveland. You know, I believe that Loveland is a very good player and in games where
5:48they have to throw, I think that this is what we are going to expect from him.
5:53And by the way, Loveland had an even bigger game.
5:56He had a second touchdown in his hands. Not a great throw from Caleb, not a great route from Loveland, but could have turned into another touchdown.
6:04Kyle Pitts on the other side of that game came back in a very surprising way.
6:09His routes are sorry, in a non-surprising way because his routes trended back up.
6:13I think Kyle Pitts is sort of your prototypical in any game you think the Falcons can win.
6:18We are not going to see very much of Kyle Pitts because this coaching staff does not trust him to block at all.
6:25But he had a 93% share of the 11 personnel early down snaps.
6:2949% of that was in weeks one through five.
6:31So a huge, huge adjustment there. But in my opinion, that only happened because of the scoreline.
6:36That only happened because they were down immediately. In any game where the Falcons are playing it close, we're going to see Nick Muse.
6:43We're going to see Charlie Warner. We're going to see Austin Hooper because those guys can block.
6:48Bijan only had six rushes in this game. They were just down immediately.
6:52So Kyle Pitts, I think, does just kind of become in that overall group of low-end streamers.
6:57He still does have the insane ceiling because he's Kyle Pitts and he's very good.
7:01It's a shame Kyle Pitts never actually became a good blocker because the legendary player is in there somewhere.
7:07We just really have not seen it at all.
7:10Jacoby Lane in this game that Tyler Huntley played returns to a substantial role.
7:14Rashad Bateman injures his shoulder. Jacoby Lane was third on the team in routes, second on the team in targets, actually tied with Josh Cuevas.
7:21Mark Andrews ran a route on 25 to 38 dropbacks.
7:24I'm starting to very much sour on the Mark Andrews experience, but if Jacoby Lane got dropped in your league, he is
7:30a pretty good waiver wire pickup this week. Assuming that Lamar Jackson is able to come back quickly, only a 57% route rate for Lane.
7:38I would imagine that that is going to grow as he gets healthy and integrates himself in the offense.
7:43And then Zay Flowers dominated in targets, 33% target share for Flowers, but only six for 66 because Tyler Huntley is not near as good as Lamar Jackson.
7:52But I feel quite good about the way things are breaking for Jacoby Lane.
7:56You guys can put this in the paper. I am very worried about Harold Fannin Jr.
8:00He was only able to garner two targets on 29 routes in this game.
8:04I think it is fair and fine to say that Harold Fannin Jr.
8:08had this incredible good rookie season, but he is a guy who in his time at Bowling Green and for the Browns,
8:15the best player he ever played with was Jerry Judy.
8:18And Denzel Boston and Casey Concepcion are much better.
8:20Quinshawn Judkins was not able to play in this game.
8:23Estime and Jaleel played in what in my mind was a very predictable timeshare.
8:27Estime handled a bunch of the early down stuff.
8:30Jaleel actually played a little bit more than I thought he was going to.
8:34I did not think he would, you know, get nine carries.
8:37I thought it would be like 12 carries for Estime, five for Jaleel.
8:41Jaleel played all the long down and distance and passing stuff.
8:44Estime played all these short yardage and the goal line ends up with nine rushes, 19 yards and a touchdown.
8:50If Judkins is not able to come back and play next week, I think the usage will look like this exactly unless
8:57Dylan Samson comes back, in which case I think Jaleel's role and Estime's role will diminish because I think the Cleveland Browns
9:03generally think Dylan Samson is a pretty talented player.
9:06Cardinal Tate is the only bright spot for the Tennessee Titans.
9:09Somehow they win and no one on the team outside of Tate was any good for fantasy.
9:14Wandale Robinson, 5.2 PPR points. Wandale can't even PPR scam anymore.
9:17Tate scores a touchdown, ends up with 19 fantasy points.
9:20Only 46 offensive snaps for the Titans. 102 passing yards for Cam Ward.
9:24Spears, you know, Gunnar Helm, Tony Pollard, Wandale. I don't want to start any of these guys.
9:29The only guy that I will basically rank as a starting player in fantasy football for the Titans for the rest of
9:35the season is going to be Cardinal Tate. I do get some comments about Pollard in my rankings videos and you guys are like, come on, Davis.
9:43You know, Pollard, he's out there. It's like, I don't care.
9:47You know, I would rather find a tertiary guy on a good offense.
9:50Like when I watch the Tennessee Titans, it is a painful slog.
9:54Cam Ward is not a fun watch. Pollard is no longer a fun watch.
9:58You know, Tate is quite good and quite exhilarating, but everything else is just too painful.
10:03So I'm done. I got to admit, I am having a great year in fantasy football.
10:07My fantasy teams are all doing awesome. You know, I'm having a great year at best ball.
10:12My high stakes teams are good. I'm winning in my home league.
10:16Like everything is going really well. But I got to admit, man, I was really, really wrong about two guys.
10:22And one of them was Joshua Downs. It's just not happening.
10:25Another game with insane routes. It's 88% route rate.
10:28He sees only seven targets in this game. 12 targets for Keenan Allen with no Tyler Warren.
10:33Will Mallory and Mo Alley Cox subsumed that Tyler Warren role.
10:36But it was really Keenan Allen who saw the dramatic increase up to a 31% target share.
10:418 for 82. 16 PPR points. 4 for 40 for Joshua Downs.
10:44I mean, you just... I don't know what it is.
10:47I mean, I'm certainly tempted to blame a lot of it on Daniel Jones.
10:51Because Daniel Jones is clearly awful. Just like really not playing well.
10:55But Josh Downs is not playing well either. 0.89 yards per route run.
10:59Two drops. A 33 quarterback rating. When targeted. Had a very bad drop.
11:03That turned into an interception in this game. Like, he just...
11:06Whatever it was that he had going against the Chiefs on Sunday Night Football when he looked like the best wide receiver in the NFL.
11:13I mean, maybe that was a total mirage. But, you know, ranking...
11:17Like, when I do my wide receiver rankings video this week and you guys comment like you're way too high on Josh Downs.
11:23You're not going to do it this week. Because I am not going to have Josh Downs ranked too high.
11:29He is now in prove-it territory for me. No doubt about that.
11:33Omar Cooper Jr. has a massive breakout game for the New York Jets.
11:37And I am actually buying this one. Omar Cooper Jr.
11:39plays 51 of 62 snaps. 28 of 32 routes.
11:426 for 103 and 1. Scores a really nice, long touchdown.
11:45I'm going to move Omar Cooper Jr. Way up my rest of season rankings.
11:49One is that I am higher on Geno Smith than average.
11:53I think the Jets have overall been pretty competent on offense.
11:56It'll be really interesting to see what happens when A.D.
11:59Mitchell finally comes back from this finger injury because Mitchell was ahead of Cooper, you know, in the very brief time that
12:05we saw Cooper playing before he injured his ankle.
12:08And A.D. Mitchell out-targeted Garrett Wilson in his last game before he injured his finger.
12:12That is honestly Garrett Wilson, Omar Cooper Jr., and A.D.
12:15Mitchell is mean 11 personnel. The Jets kind of have tools to be good on offense.
12:20The Jets play very slow, which is very frustrating to watch.
12:23Like, they could be more fun. They could be more high-flying, and they choose not to.
12:28But the defense is also not great, so they kind of get pushed into some of these grips where there are more dropbacks than Frank Reich would like.
12:36Something that I did get wrong this week as well was Kenyon City clearly did remain the tight end, too.
12:42He only played 22 snaps, ran a route on 12 of 33 dropbacks, while Mason Taylor ran a route on 23 of 33 dropbacks.
12:49I expected, after Sadiq got concussed last week, I guess he did miss a bunch of practice, but Sadiq had played so
12:55well in that Lions game that, in my imagination, I thought we were going to see an expanded role, particularly with Tim Patrick Jr.
13:02playing so much. Like, why does Tim Patrick Jr.
13:05need to play so much? Sadiq could just very easily be that 11 personnel third wide receiver, kind of like how Michael
13:12Mayer and Brock Bowers do it with the Raiders.
13:14That is not what happened. I need to do some more research on that one and see what the coaches have said
13:21in this week upcoming about Kenyon Sadiq, because it doesn't make much sense for him to be running fewer routes than Tim
13:27Patrick Jr., particularly when another rookie, Omar Cooper Jr., immediately returns from a high ankle sprain to a full-time role.
13:33Like, that decision-making does seem a little bit, just seems a little bit weird to me, but we will find more information
13:39out about this week, and we will talk about that in other videos on this channel.
13:44AJ Brown returned with what turned into a complete nightmare game.
13:47He was targeted 10 times. He had multiple drops, only 5.7 PPR points.
13:51It was not a good day for him. Demario Douglas had an awesome day.
13:55Dubs also had a nice touchdown that he ended up getting injured on, so he did not run very many routes.
14:01And then Efton Chisholm also, you know, then filled in for Romeo Dubs.
14:05Demario Douglas remains slot only. I mean, in these games where the, because Drake May is playing so well, I'm actually totally fine streaming Chisholm or Douglas.
14:13Like, Drake May can kind of make anyone decent for fantasy right now.
14:17There was also some interesting stuff going on with the backfield deal.
14:20Trevion Henderson somehow injures his ankle last week, plays in this game, but is only able to play limited snaps.
14:26He fumbles in this game, gets benched for the fumble, and then doesn't play anymore.
14:31Played 34% of the early down snaps. Ramondre Stevenson sort of effectively got benched in this game.
14:36He didn't get benched. He just did not play very well.
14:39And Corey Kiner had the hot hand. So Corey Kiner ends up with 11 rushes, seven rushes for Trevion Henderson, only 14 for Ramondre Stevenson.
14:46Kiner getting touches is so bad for Henderson or Ramondre.
14:49This is something we've really learned about fantasy football.
14:52Guys can sustain being in a two-way timeshare, but a three-way timeshare is untenable for anyone that you are going to be starting.
14:59So we do need, and honestly, Henderson has just not been good as an NFL player.
15:03Like he has been explosive and he's the only one of these three guys that you think can score like a 55 yard touchdown.
15:10But NFL coaches don't really care about that. NFL coaches care more about protecting the ball.
15:15They care more about, you know, minding what you're supposed to be doing on every play.
15:20They want you to be good in the passing game.
15:23They want you to do your job. They, they, I don't know why this is, this wouldn't be how I would coach
15:29NFL teams, but it is kind of how it's certainly how Mike Brayble and Josh McDaniel do it.
15:34So I'm going to have a hard time ranking Ramondre and Henderson next week.
15:38I would expect Henderson to keep kind of playing through this bum ankle and just not play that well.
15:44And I'll, I'll be also very curious what the coaches say about Kiner throughout the week.
15:49The saints backfield has turned into just a, just a crazy nightmare.
15:52Alvin Kamara turned back the clock to 2020 on a 41 yard receiving touchdown where he looked like vintage Kamara, you know,
15:59putting, putting his hand on the back of his blocker and everything.
16:0214.9 PPR points for him, but did that on only nine routes, four targets and seven carries.
16:07Meanwhile, Kendra Miller scores nine PPR points, gets 20 carries in a game that the saints lead for a huge chunk of
16:14the game, but only runs five routes. Then CJ Donaldson is out there for the long down and distance stuff, but never gets the ball.
16:21I ranked Kendra in my top 100 last week.
16:24And I mean, I guess if you started him, you will take the nine PPR points, but Kamara, I don't really think is going to be particularly startable.
16:32I mean, seven carries and four targets you want to have better than that.
16:36Theoretically, uh, you know, at Chen is going to be able to come back and start for the saints at some point.
16:42Are they still going to be playing Kendra then?
16:45Are they still going to be playing Donaldson? Like is, is the saints backfield going to be at Jen Kamara Donaldson with Kendra is the healthy scratch.
16:53Like that is a nightmare situation. And if you guys think the saints backfield is a quagmire, I mean, the giants backfield, that is a quagmire.
17:01I don't even need to talk about Malik neighbors or Isaiah likely anymore.
17:04You know, every single week I've been saying, gotta buy Malik neighbors.
17:08This guy's is an absolute smash, but likely also just an insane smash and fantasy football.
17:13So Scadaboo is benched. We get the warning before the game that this is going to happen.
17:18I nuked a Scadaboo in my rankings. I ended up actually placing some real money wagers on Scadaboo under.
17:23So that was nice. Singletary is brought back from the healthy scratch list.
17:27He's the lead back, but he only scores four fantasy points.
17:30Singletary runs 11 routes, but has a nice receiving touchdown scores 18 and a half fantasy points.
17:35Najee is like the short yardage guy. He scores 0.2 fantasy points.
17:39This is as bad as a backfield could possibly be for guys playing, including theoretically like the best running back on the team.
17:45Theoretically is Scadaboo. I think what the Giants coaches have told us and shown us is very clear, which is they do
17:52not view Cam Scadaboo as any different than any of these other guys.
17:56They think that he is a replacement level player.
17:58The same as Singletary, the same as Tracy, the same as Najee.
18:02They don't think any of these guys are any good.
18:05Jameis Winston also got benched in this game. It is worth noting that JJ McCarthy absolutely smashed 243 yards in just over 11 minutes of game time.
18:13Almost led the team like from a total compromise.
18:15The Saints benched their starters and had to bring the starting offense back in because JJ McCarthy had played so well in that fourth quarter.
18:23I don't I mean, I don't think any of the Giants coaches are any good either.
18:27Like I have a very low opinion of Matt Nagy, of Greg Roman, of Harbaugh.
18:32I'm like way lower than consensus on these guys.
18:34It'll be really interesting to see if JJ McCarthy actually starts next week.
18:38But there was also this thought that I'm sure I was guilty of.
18:42I'm sure I've said it in one of these videos that, oh, well, Malik neighbors is going to be totally dead in fantasy football if McCarthy comes in.
18:50That is not what happened. Now, it's also totally possible McCarthy only played well because he was playing against, you know, very
18:57light, you know, sort of very easy defensive looks.
18:59And is there an easier spot to come in for?
19:02Well, it kind of goes both ways. Sometimes quarterbacks come in cold and play very poorly.
19:07I think JJ showed he was like in the moment.
19:10He was certainly feeling very Zen. He was kind of just, you know, making the read, delivering the ball.
19:16Maybe with a week of preparation, he will actually be worse.
19:19But both likely and neighbors had very good fantasy results with JJ McCarthy in there.
19:23I'll have to do a lot of soul searching.
19:26I'm thinking about what to do with those guys if JJ McCarthy ends up starting the Giants next game.
19:31Jalen Coker returns to the lineup for the Carolina Panthers and Moggs.
19:35Ted Roy and McMillan in terms of overall usage, 11 targets to 8, 14 PPR points for Tet and 15 PPR points
19:41for Coker, 6 for 97, 6 for 86. Honestly, both of them were kind of fine.
19:46I just wanted to use the word Mog in one of these videos.
19:50One thing that was a little interesting about just watching this game, the overall fantasy points kind of ended up being okay.
19:56Two touchdowns for Tommy Tremble, by the way. That's very annoying.
20:00Bryce just did not look very comfortable. Some of the old Bryce Young stuff was starting to pop up.
20:05The Eagles are a difficult defensive matchup, but maybe we just need to kind of reevaluate what the given floor or ceiling
20:12for the Panthers is in a given week. And then Chuba Hubbard just remains a completely unbelievable role.
20:1725 rushes, gets the goal line touchdown, gets over 100 yards.
20:20I mean, Chuba right now is the running back 5 in PPR fantasy points per game.
20:25Just an unbelievably good draft pick was he. For the Philadelphia Eagles, Jalen Hurts going to be out for the rest of the year.
20:32Doctors found blood clots in his lungs. So I think we certainly have to reduce our expectations for Dallas Goddard, for Saquon Barkley, for Devonta Smith.
20:39They did huck the ball with Tanner McKee at quarterback, which is going to be a big switch from how things worked before.
20:46Damian Pierce completely dominated the Eagles backfield. Carson Steele seemed to break his arm early in this game.
20:51Jaden Blue did not play a snap despite being activated from the practice squad.
20:5612 rushes, including a goal line touchdown for Damian Pierce.
20:58Five targets in the passing game. Devonta Smith gets 12 targets, scores a touchdown, returns, plays quite well in his return from injury.
21:05Goddard, you know, just kind of eats up the short area stuff.
21:09But Damian Pierce, despite not playing well, is going to rank as a starting running back in fantasy football because they are just feeding him the ball.
21:17You know, they are just giving him the ball every down and distance, every opportunity.
21:21They clearly have learned what every other NFL and college coach that Jaden Blue has, which is that we just don't want
21:27to be relying on this guy at all. McKee did not play well in this game.
21:32I mean, the Eagles really were never threatening to win here.
21:35It was kind of just hapless from them. But McKee's had better moments and can play his way.
21:41So, like, if you have Devonta Smith, Mekhi Lemon, Dallas Goddard, Dontavian Wicks got banged up in this game as well, by the way.
21:48There's potentially better stuff coming for Tanner McKee and for the Eagles.
21:51I mean, I don't think there's any chance they win the division or make the postseason or anything like that.
21:57But the Damian Pierce signal here is pretty big.
22:00Jeremy Bernard completely ascendant. He has basically just become Randall Cobb with Aaron Rodgers.
22:04Crazy, crazy low air yard share. Crazy, crazy low ADOT.
22:07But 11 for 87 and 1. Jeremy is going to rank as a clear starting player.
22:11And then Metcalf finally has a good game as well.
22:14His average up the target comes down. They were playing a bunch of absolute jamot.
22:19I had never heard of this Brandon Smith guy.
22:21You know what? Fantasy football is my job. And I had never heard of Brandon Smith, who is not targeted in this game.
22:28It all went to Metcalf and Bernard. Maybe the most annoying thing I've ever seen was that the Steelers coaches did try
22:35and force Jalen Warren into a timeshare with Rico Dowdle until the game got serious.
22:39The early down snaps through three quarters, 19 for Warren, 14 for Dowdle.
22:43Then the game got serious and they tried to start winning.
22:46And then they got into overtime. And guess what happened when the game got serious?
22:5031 of 37 snaps for Jalen Warren in the fourth quarter and overtime.
22:54This is what's going to happen, though. It's so frustrating.
22:57It's so annoying. But in a lot of these games, Mike McCarthy and Brian Angelino and the Steelers coaching staff are going
23:04to try and put Jalen Warren, who is way, way better than Rico Dowdle in this timeshare.
23:09Only ends up with 9.8 PPR points here. Could have been better.
23:12Actually, could have been worse, you know, without the fourth quarter and without overtime.
23:16But Jalen Warren is so much better than Rico Dowdle.
23:19This is going to be one of the most frustrating backfields to watch for the entire rest of the season.
23:25On the Buccaneers side of the game, the Bucky Irving insane usage from last week actually translates again to this week.
23:31He gets 19 rushes. He gets 33 routes. Only 11 total snaps for Gainwell.
23:35Sean Tucker did not play in this game. Only turns into 6.9 PPR points.
23:39Wouldn't be freaking out too much about that. The signal here is that after the good game against the Cowboys last week, the usage got even better.
23:47I mean, not even arguably, like definitely better for Bucky Irving.
23:51And then Emeka Igbuka, I ranked him pretty low this week relative to consensus on Flock Fantasy.
23:56I was wrong. 16 targets. 16 targets turns into 17.8 PPR points for Igbuka.
24:00Jalen Daniels absolutely fed him. We will see when and if Baker Mayfield is able to come back.
24:05But Igbuka is going to be another guy that I move up my rest of season rankings because it just appears like Godwin doesn't have it.
24:13The Ted Hurst stuff, like it's just, you know, Kate Otten can't earn a target to absolutely save his life.
24:18So with Buka going to be a guy, I raise up my rest of season rankings.
24:23Another very strange one here. Bam Knight comes off the bench, you know, cold to basically split with Tyler Algier with no Jeremiah Love.
24:30Bam Knight played way better. Way better in this game.
24:33Ended up with 15 rushes for 80 yards. Like he looked so much better than Tyler Algier did.
24:38Ended up with 11.8 PPR points, only 5.8 for Algier.
24:41I started Algier in a couple spots. I used him in some daily fantasy lineups.
24:46Like I did not think Algier. If you would have told me that the Cardinals won this game, I would have, I
24:52would have ranked Algier as like a top 15 running back this week.
24:56I would have been like, oh my gosh, he probably got 32 rushes and played all the passing down stuff.
25:02That's not what happened at all. Bam Knight was, I mean, it was basically a 50-50 split.
25:07It was basically like they put Bam Knight in the Jeremiah Love role, which does go to show there's more meat on the bone for Jeremiah Love.
25:15But it also goes to show this might just be like an ideological commitment thing from the Arizona Cardinals coaching staff that
25:21they prefer to have these running backs in, you know, kind of in a timeshare.
25:26And then a note here on Michael Wilson. I've gone back and forth on this.
25:30I was much lower than consensus on Michael Wilson coming into the season.
25:34I was also lower than Michael Wilson after his big first breakout game.
25:38I kind of capitulated. I kind of changed my mind.
25:41I've moved him back up. And I think Michael Wilson is who he is.
25:45He's a nice player. He's a guy you'd like to have on your fantasy football team.
25:49But Michael Wilson is not like you should never start Michael Wilson over Matthew Golden or something like that.
25:55You know, I think he's a totally fine wide receiver three.
25:58But just given the overall efficiency of the offense and the fact that McBride is clearly number one.
26:03And honestly, Kendrick Bourne is like a decent target earner.
26:06I think we can just kind of settle like Michael Wilson is a top 30 fantasy receiver, but we don't need to
26:13rank him as a top 15 fantasy football receiver for the rest of the season.
26:17We will see if Jeremiah Love is able to return next week.
26:21Like the Los Angeles Rams are having a complete nightmare of a season.
26:25I mean, they are just scuffling at every possible opportunity.
26:28Puka falls down on what would have been a 60 yard touchdown that would have changed it here.
26:33Colby Parkinson ends up with a good game. Yeah, has six targets here and Higby lost a fourth quarter fumble.
26:39But the surprising thing to me was just how much Higby played this Terrence Ferguson Higby role.
26:44Like when Terrence Ferguson comes back from this ankle injury, he is going to get absolutely fed the ball.
26:4948 of 58 snaps for Higby, 30 of 36 routes.
26:52This is usage that was better than any Rams tight end last year.
26:56Obviously, Higby, when Ferguson comes back, is going to go back to like barely playing because that was what was happening before.
27:02And Ferguson is way, way better than him. So, I mean, if Terrence Ferguson got dropped in your league, I would add him right now.
27:10Devontae Adams also got injured late in this game and was seen off to the side with the trainers.
27:15I have not seen an update on what that was.
27:18Adams' efficiency, things are not looking great there. You know, it's like part of this is Stafford.
27:23Part of this is that Devontae Adams is 34.
27:26Part of this is that the offensive line is not playing well.
27:29Part of this is that Kyron has seen an expanded role, you know, kind of in the passing game.
27:35There are a lot of complex reasons for this, but none of them make me feel that good about Devontae Adams moving forward.
27:42Like, you're not cutting him. It's not over. But would it be surprising to me if from week seven on, when Terrence
27:48Ferguson returns, if he scores either the same amount or slightly more fantasy points than Devontae Adams?
27:53I mean, maybe that's too crazy. Maybe I'm too biased towards Terrence Ferguson.
27:57But I don't think it's that insane given what we've seen from the Rams thus far.
28:02For the Los Angeles Chargers, Amarian Hampton snaps and usage rebound like very, very slightly.
28:06Gets him up to 7.9 PPR points. Lad McConkie suffers a concussion in this game.
28:10He's only able to play eight snaps. I mean, the Chargers.
28:14Is this the worst team in the NFL? Are the Chargers worse than the Dolphins?
28:18I mean, it feels like they might be. They score six points on offense.
28:22Herbert has 204 scoreless yards, eats four sacks. Keiondre Lambert-Smith leads the team in targets.
28:27QJ is useless. I mean, just drop QJ. Like, it's totally useless.
28:30Theo Wees, who actually outproduced Luther Burden their final season together at Missouri, ends up taking over the Lad McConkie roll, runs 24 of 44 routes.
28:38I don't know. I think I'm done. I just don't think I'm going to rank a Charger in, like, my top 75.
28:44Like, shouldn't Herbert just, like, rest? Like, why is Herbert even out there getting just, like, smoked in the face?
28:50They got to fire McInnes. They should fire everyone.
28:53The entire coaching staff should be fired. Everyone involved with this team should be fired.
28:57They should just forfeit the rest of their games.
29:00There's no point for the Chargers season. 0-6. The schedule remains insanely hard.
29:04Like, you know, Vidal kind of looks okay when he plays.
29:07But, again, it's kind of much ado about nothing.
29:09There's just nothing going on with the Chargers. Kansas City Chiefs, it was Jalen Royals who plays as the backup to Rashi Rice in this game.
29:17And then Andrew Armstrong, not Cyrus Allen, takes the Taequann Thornton role.
29:21Only four routes for Cyrus Allen, 24 routes for Armstrong.
29:23They were mostly all in 11 personnel. Cyrus Allen plays nine snaps in 11 personnel, mostly taking the backup snaps from Royals.
29:30Andrew Armstrong had an 11.5 average up the target.
29:33He was the one who was running a little bit further down the field.
29:37As predicted on this channel, Noah Gray also saw a bump in targets and in overall snaps with no Taequann Thornton and no Rashi Rice.
29:44The big deal with the Chiefs is, well, two things.
29:47First is Kenneth Walker, you know, second overall player in fantasy football.
29:50He's going to break every record. Like, you're really...
29:53If you don't have Jameer Gibbs or Kenneth Walker, it's going to be hard to win your league.
29:58The other annoying thing is Andy Reid just, like, refuses to let the Chiefs score fantasy points.
30:03They kick four field goals in this game. Three of them were inside the 30-yard line.
30:08They don't go for it. They went for it on one fourth down.
30:12The Chiefs could have scored 40 points here if they wanted to.
30:15They basically just chose not to. It's really, really frustrating as a Chiefs fan, as someone who has Mahomes on a lot of fantasy teams.
30:23I mean, obviously, I also have Kenneth Walker on a lot of teams.
30:27And then I guess one more note here was that Xavier Worthy caught all of his targets, led the team in routes,
30:33led the team in targets, just, like, looked very confident.
30:36They were using him in a way that I've been wanting them to use him, which is on these horizontal braking routes.
30:42When Worthy tries to run these vertical routes, he just kind of gets bullied because he is not big enough, he's not
30:49strong enough to win on those routes. But when he goes horizontal, he can really use his speed, and it's not as
30:55big of a deal that he can't decelerate all that well because he can kind of just trend up into the area
31:02of the field where he feels comfortable, almost sort of like a punt returner or something like that.
31:07And it would really be usage that I would like to see him used in that way for the rest of the season.
31:14But any game that Rushy Rice doesn't play, I think you have to rank Worthy as a starting player.
31:19Dalton Kincaid actually has a strong route right here, has a nice, you know, targets per route run.
31:25And he just can't seem to put it all together.
31:28He can't seem to also have the high average depth of target and the target share.
31:32He can't seem to have the really high target share and also score a touchdown.
31:37Like, ever since week two, it just has not happened for Dalton Kincaid this year.
31:41And it's very, very, very, very annoying. I really bought in after the first two weeks of the season on Dalton Kincaid,
31:47and it just hasn't really worked out. No DJ Moore in this game.
31:51Keon Coleman. Keon Coleman looks like a real receiver.
31:54He scores a touchdown. Shakir scores a touchdown as well.
31:57If you have not seen it, the play that Keon Coleman scored was just a total MVP Superman freaking play from Josh Allen.
32:04I think you got to respect Chess Liam's goat, Josh Allen.
32:07It was an incredible, incredible play. But Kincaid, I said in last week's tight end ranking video, I'm giving him one more chance.
32:14He sort of did have, I guess, the usage, the thing that I want you guys to look at, kind of like
32:20intelligently looking at how players segment themselves. The usage was better.
32:2322 of 35 routes, eight targets, led the team in targets.
32:26They go into their bye week. Then DJ Moore comes back.
32:30Theoretically, DJ Moore coming back might be helpful, but a tight end 14 week for Dalton Kincaid could be better, could be worse.
32:36It's very hard to rank Dalton Kincaid. I don't know.
32:39You guys comment down below. What are you guys doing with Dalton Kincaid and fantasy football?
32:44Ashton Gentry remains limited due to injury. 57% snap share for him.
32:4876% in weeks one through four. 53% in week five.
32:51Mike Washington handles nine carries, 10 carries for Gentry.
32:53Luckily, Gentry does cash in a touchdown here. I really wish they would just let this guy rest.
32:58And they're not going to. He does get the touchdown this week, which I talked about in the video last week.
33:05I said, hey man, you play this much and you're this good.
33:08You are going to positively regress. He does positively regress a little bit.
33:12Though Mike Washington Jr. takes a little bit off of his plate as well.
33:16Lowby plays less in this game because the score was closer.
33:19So Washington plays a little bit more. Trey Tucker scores two deep bombs.
33:23That's the second time he has had his explosion game this year.
33:27So if you started Trey Tucker, shout out to you.
33:30The Bills defense is so bad. So we can continue to target them with explosive plays.
33:34Michael Mayer was until the fourth quarter of this game, absolutely dominating Bowers.
33:38Bowers ends up racking up 11 PPR points with all of the production coming in the second half of this game.
33:44This is the way the Raiders are going to play.
33:47Bowers is a slot wide receiver. It's going to be the crucial point for opposing defenses to limit and bracket Brock Bowers as much as they can.
33:55The Bills do get the win here while sort of letting Michael Mayer do whatever he wanted.
34:00I mean, tight end five on the week for Michael Mayer.
34:03Obviously, I'm not concerned about Bowers. The more interesting thing is how do you rank Michael Mayer, who is an inline blocking
34:10tight end, who plays with a guy as good as Bowers in a given week?
34:14Jalen Naylor returned here and did absolutely nothing. I don't know if you still have Jalen Naylor in your league.
34:20Go ahead and drop him. Matthew Golden is an absolute star.
34:2313 targets here, 22 PPR points, dropped literally two more touchdowns.
34:26I mean, Matthew Golden could have had, you know, 180 yards and three touchdowns in this game.
34:31I rank him as a starter every single week.
34:34I'm higher than consensus on Golden and the rest of season rankings.
34:38I think you got to do whatever you can to get Matthew Golden on your fantasy team.
34:43Only eight of 40 targets here for Christian Watson.
34:45This has been the thing that I've been saying is in my heart of hearts.
34:50My truth serum take is that I do think Matthew Golden is better than Christian Watson.
34:54I know no one agrees. I know I'm totally out on an island here, but love Matthew Golden.
35:00But Savion Williams comes off the IR and replaces Sky Moore as the slot wide receiver here.
35:05I thought that was interesting. So I don't know if you have Savion Williams, deep league, 14 team league, 15 team league.
35:11Also got two carries as well. Pierre Strong replaced Marshawn Lloyd because Marshawn Lloyd is like the worst running back I've ever seen in my life.
35:19Plays football without hamstrings. He was hurt in the first quarter, went to the medical tent and returned.
35:24After the two drives, after his injury, Strong played 20 of 28 snaps.
35:28But neither of these guys matter because Josh Jacobs is now unsuspended.
35:31He is off the commissioner's exemplus and will be returning as the starting running back for the Green Bay Packers.
35:37You can drop Pierre Strong. Frankly, you can drop Marshawn Lloyd.
35:40Josh Jacobs is going to return to a gargantuan role in fantasy football.
35:44And last note here on the Green Bay Packers, it is completely giga mega, 1 billion percent over for Jake Ferguson.
35:5029 of 56 routes. He's getting replaced in 11 personnel by Brevin Spanford.
35:54Five targets for Spanford, three for Jake Ferguson. Ferguson is basically, I mean, I guess he did play marginally.
36:00He played, you know, six more snaps than Spanford, but it's over for Jake Ferguson.
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