0:00some of the biggest storylines in the NFL season, including one of the my absolute favorite players in NFL history, returning to fantasy football
0:07relevance. We're going to get to that and much more. What mattered in week six, Jaylen Null deserves more playing time. I'm starting to get absolutely
0:14sick of how the Houston Texans are jerking him around. I I don't understand it at all. They trade for Marvin Harrison Jr. when the answer to their
0:21wide receiver problems is already on the roster. 20.7 PP points. He does it on only four targets. He runs a route on 22
0:28of 36 drop backs. Marvin Harrison Jr.
0:31effectively played in the same role that Kan Booty did in his very first game as a Houston Texan. He plays 12 snaps, runs
0:37a route on nine dropbacks, and then ends up with four targets on those snaps.
0:42Clearly, I do think this is a situation where the team was trying to force the ball to Marvin Harrison Jr. There was
0:47one target near the end zone. I thought if he would have battled for it a little bit more that he and you know, maybe
0:53could have potentially come down with it. But my guess for this situation is that both Booty and Hutchinson end up getting phased out. I will be doing some
1:01waiver claims this week on Jaylen Null.
1:03I just don't see how a player this efficient and this good cannot play. And that actual distribution of snaps would sort of make sense. You have Marvin
1:11Harrison Jr. on the outside taking the booty role. You have Nico Collins on the other outside area and then you have
1:17Jaylen Null as the primary slot receiver. I just don't see why we need Kahan Booty. What is the need for Kahan
1:24Booty and Jared Wayne for the Houston Texans? On the Jaguars side of the ball, two massive storylines here. The first is that Travis Hunter shows up in a real
1:33way in this game. He does only play nine offensive snaps, but the big development for me here is that Brian Thomas Jr.
1:40trended down to 15 offensive snaps, only ran 13 rounds. One of the things that I have consistently said about Travis Hunter and why I liked him in fantasy is
1:49there are so many ways for Travis Hunter to earn a larger role in offense, right?
1:53The first would be he doesn't play that good on defense. That actually has not happened. He's been a very good defensive player. One of the others
1:59would be they get unexpectedly good defensive performances from another defensive player. That does marginally seem to be happening because the Jaguars
2:06defense has been so good. They also have wide receiver injuries to deal with. And it seems like Brian Thomas Jr. might get
2:12traded at this point. It it does not seem that the Jacksonville Jaguars are incentivized to play that guy who had such a good rookie season. My guess
2:20would be over the next few weeks, we actually will see Travis Hunter Jr.'s overall offensive involvement increase.
2:28He scored 15.9 PPR points here with a touchdown. Brian Thomas Jr. did not play any snaps in the second half. Now, I
2:35don't know if he got hurt, and it's possible that this is an overreaction to an injury, but I think for the rest of
2:41the season, as these games get more important for the Jaguars as they are battling, I mean, the Jags are are live
2:46for the overall one seed in the AFC. I think one of the things that we might end up seeing will be Josh Cameron who
2:53is taking over that Brian Thomas Jr.
2:55role, seeing his snaps trend down. And I think, you know, by week 10 or 11, we could have Travis Hunter Jr. running a
3:01route on 40% of dropbacks, which in my opinion would actually make him startable in fantasy football because the thing that we all lost sight of,
3:10well, not everyone. I never lost sight of this, is that Travis Hunter Jr. is a really, really, really good I I actually
3:15don't think he's a junior. I think I just made that up. I My brain is getting crossed here with Brian Thomas Jr., but
3:20I think that Travis Hunter is a really, really good receiver. his collegiate metrics, his rookie year metrics, all of that stuff to me paints the picture of a
3:30guy who is a very good receiver, very good with the ball in his hands. So, I think I'm buying this trend and I think
3:35we will see more of Travis Hunter on offense and I think we'll see less of Josh Cameron and Brian Thomas Jr. The
3:41Luther Burden usage in this game was it I guess depending on your perspective, it was very bizarre. He only played 30
3:48of 77 offensive snaps but ends up with eight for 95. Luther Burden and Coulston Lovelin have rewarded our patients as fantasy managers. Roma Dunay is always
3:58out there playing in the heavy personnel packages as is Cole KT as is Sam Rous and also some Jade Walker in there. But
4:06Lovelin with 18 and a half fantasy points. Luther Burden with 17 and a half fantasy points. The 14th highest scoring wide receiver of the week. Tight end
4:12four for Coloulston Lovelin. I will be moving leveling up my rest of season rankings because I think the thing that I said in last week's what mattered
4:20video is true which is that the Bears have not played a normal game yet. They did finally play a game that trended a
4:26little bit more towards being normal.
4:28Although they were able to run the ball so much as one and a half point road favorites that you could argue this game
4:33was still not a little bit normal. But listen to their upcoming schedule. They play the Patriots. They play the Seahawks. They'll probably easily beat
4:40the Buccaneers. But then they play the Lions. They play the Jaguars. These are finally going to be games. We might see
4:45the Bears trail in a game. They just have not trailed in these games. They they've been uh the we have not seen a a
4:5250, you know, a 50 drop back game from Caleb Williams. My guess, and I am very very certain that I'm right about this,
5:00is that as the Bears eliminate some of these heavy personnel packages, we are going to see Burden's overall route rate and snap rate increase. I mean, it's
5:08insane that he was able to have such a great game on only 18 routes, but I don't think this is sticky. I I think
5:14that 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, and I
5:22think that he knows that Luther Burton is his best wide receiver, which is why he is targeted so often when he is on
5:27the field. U and the same deal with Coloulston Lovelin. You know, I believe that Lovelin is a very good player and
5:32in games where they have to throw, I think that this is what we are going to expect from him. And by the way, Lovelin
5:37had an even bigger game. He had a second touchdown in his hands. Not a great throw from Caleb. Not a great route from
5:43Lovelin, but could have turned into another touchdown. Kyle Pitts on the other side of that game came back in a very surprising way. His routes or
5:50sorry, in a non-surprising way because his routes trended back up. I think Kyle Pittz is sort of your prototypical. In any game you think the Falcons can win,
5:58we are not going to see very much of Kyle Pittz because this coaching staff does not trust him to block at all. but
6:03he had a 93% share of the 11 personnel early down snaps. 49% of that was in weeks 1 through 5. So a huge huge
6:11adjustment there. But in my opinion, that only happened because of the score line. That only happened because they were down immediately. In any game where
6:19the Falcons are playing it close, we're going to see Nick Muse, we're going to see Charlie Warner. We're going to see
6:24Austin Hooper because those guys can block. Uh Bejon only had uh six rushes in this game. It was they were just down
6:30immediately. So, Kyle Pittz, I think, does just kind of become in that overall group of like low-end streamers. He He still does have the insane ceiling
6:38because he's Kyle Pitts and he's very good. It's a shame Kyle Pittz never actually became a good blocker because the legendary player is in there
6:46somewhere. We just really have not seen it at all. Jacobe Lane in this game that Tyler Huntley played returns to a
6:52substantial role. Rashad Baitman injures his shoulder. Jacobe Lane was third on the team in routes, second on the team in targets, actually tied with Josh
6:59Quavvis. Mark Andrews ran a route on 25 to 38 dropbacks. I'm I'm I'm starting to very much sour on the Mark Andrews
7:06experience. But if Jacobe Lane got dropped in your league, he is a pretty good waiver wire pickup this week.
7:10Assuming that Lamar Jackson is able to come back quickly, only a 57% route rate for Lane, I would imagine that that is
7:17going to grow as he gets healthy and integrates himself in the offense. And then Z Flowers dominated in targets. 33% target share for Flowers. uh but only
7:26six for 66 because Tyler Huntley is not near as good as Lamar Jackson. But I feel I feel quite good about the way
7:32things are breaking for Jacobe Lane. You guys can put this in the paper. I am very worried about Harold Fannon Jr. He
7:39was only able to garner two targets on 29 routes in this game. I think it is fair and fine to say that Harold Fannon
7:45Jr. had this incredible good rookie season, but he is a guy who in his time at Bowling Green and for the Browns the
7:52best player he ever played with was Jerry Judy and Denzel Boston and Casey Conpsion are much better. Quinn Sean Judkins was not able to play in this
8:00game. Esté and Jal played in what in my mind was a very predictable time share.
8:04Estim handled a bunch of the early down stuff. Jal Jal actually played a little bit more than I thought he was going to.
8:11I did not think he would, you know, get nine carries. I thought it would be like 12 carries for Estimate, five for Jal.
8:16Jal played all the long down and distance and passing stuff. Estimate played all the short yardage and the goal line ends up with nine rushes, 19
8:24yards and a touchdown. If Judkins is not able to come back and play next week, I think the usage will look like this.
8:29Exactly. Unless Dylan Samson comes back, in which case I think Jal's role and Estim's role will diminish because I think the Cleveland Browns generally
8:38think Dylan Samson is a pretty talented player. Carnell Tate is the only bright spot for the Tennessee Titans. Somehow they win and no one on the team outside
8:46of Tate was any good for fantasy.
8:48Wandell Robinson. 5.2 PPR points.
8:51Wandell can't even PPR scam anymore.
8:53Tate scores a touchdown. Ends up with 19 fantasy points. Only 46 offensive snaps for the Titans. 102 passing yards for Cam Ward. Spears, you know, Gunner Helm,
9:04Tony Pard, Juanelle. I don't want to start any of these guys. The only guy that I will basically rank as a a
9:10starting player in fantasy football for the Titans for the rest of the season is going to be Carnell Tate. I I gen I do
9:16get some comments about Pard in my rankings videos and you guys are like come on Davis, you know, Pard, he's out
9:21there. It's like I don't care. You know, I I would rather I would rather find a tertiary guy on a good offense. Like
9:27when I watch the Tennessee Titans, it is a painful slog. I Cam Ward is is not a fun watch. Pard is no longer a fun
9:35watch. You know, Tate is is quite good and quite exhilarating, but everything else is just too painful. So, I'm done.
9:41I got to admit, I am having a great year in fantasy football. My fantasy teams are all doing awesome. You know, I I'm
9:48having a great year at best. My high stakes teams are good. I'm winning in my home league. Like, everything is going
9:53really well. But I got to admit, man, I was really really wrong about two guys.
9:57And one of them was Joshua DS. It's just not happening. Another game with insane routes, 88% route rate. He sees only
10:06seven targets in this game. 12 targets for Keenan Allen with no Tyler Warren.
10:10Will Mallerie and Mo Alli Cox subsumed that Tyler Warren roll. But it was really Keenan Allen who saw the dramatic increase up to a 31% target share. 8 for
10:2082, 16 PPR points, 4 for 40 for Joshua DS. I mean, you just I don't know what it is. I mean, I'm I'm certainly tempted
10:30to blame a lot of it on Daniel Jones because Daniel Jones is clearly awful.
10:34just like really not playing well. But Josh DS is not playing well either. 08 0 89 yards per route run, two drops, a 33
10:40quarterback rating when targeted. Had a had a very bad drop um that turned into an an interception in this game. Like he
10:48just whatever it was that he had going against the Chiefs when on Sunday Night Football when he looked like the best
10:55wide receiver in the NFL. I I mean, maybe that was a total mirage, but you know, ranking like when when when I do
11:01my wide receiver rankings video this week and you guys comment like you're way too high on Josh Downs, you're not going to do it this week because I am
11:08not going to have Josh Downs ranked too high. He he is now in prove it territory for me. Uh no doubt about that. Omar
11:15Cooper Jr. has a massive breakout game for the New York Jets and I am actually buying this one. Omar Cooper Jr. plays
11:2251 of 62 snaps, 28 of 32 routes, 6 for 103 and one, scores a really nice long touchdown. I'm going to move Omar Cooper
11:30Jr. way up my rest of season rankings.
11:33One is that I am higher on Gino Smith than average. I think the Jets have overall been pretty competent on offense. It'll be really interesting to
11:41see what happens when AD Mitchell finally comes back from this finger injury because Mitchell was ahead of Cooper uh you know in the very brief
11:48time that we saw Cooper playing before he injured his ankle and AD Mitchell outargeted Garrett Wilson in his last game before he injured his finger. That
11:56is honestly Garrett Wilson Omar Cooper Jr. and AD Mitchell is mean 11 personnel. The Jets kind of have the tools to be good on offense. The Jets
12:04play very slow which is very frustrating to watch. Like they could be more fun.
12:09and they could be more high-flying and they choose not to, but the defense is also not great. So, they kind of get
12:14pushed into some of these scripts where there are more dropbacks than Frank Reich would like. Something that I did get wrong this week as well was Kenyan
12:21City clearly did remain the tight end, too. He only played 22 snaps, ran a route on 12 of 33 dropbacks, while Mason
12:28Taylor ran a route on 23 of 33 dropbacks. I expected after Sadique got concussed last week. I guess he did miss
12:36a bunch of practice, but Sadique had played so well in that Lions game that in my imagination, I thought we were
12:42going to see an expanded role, particularly with Tim Patrick Jr.
12:45playing so much. Like, why does Tim Patrick Jr. need to play so much?
12:48Sadique could just very easily be that 11 personnel third wide receiver kind of like how Michael Mayer and Brock Bowers do it with the Raiders. That is not what
12:56happened. I need to do some more research on that one and see what the coaches have said in this week upcoming
13:01about Kenyan Sadik because it doesn't make much sense for him to be running fewer routes than Tim Patrick Jr.
13:07particularly when another rookie Omar Cooper Jr. immediately returns from a high ankle sprain to a full-time role like that that decision-m
13:16does seem a little bit just seems a little bit weird to me but we will find more information out about this week and
13:21we will talk about that in other videos on this channel. AJ Brown returned with what turned into a complete nightmare game. He was targeted 10 times. He had
13:30multiple drops, only 5.7 PPR points. It was not a good day for him. And then Deario Douglas had an awesome day. Dubs
13:38also had a nice touchdown that he ended up getting injured on. So he uh did not run very many routes. And then Eftton
13:44Chisum also, you know, then filled in for Romeo Dubs. Mario Douglas remains slot only. I mean, in these games where the because Drake May is playing so
13:53well, I'm actually totally fine streaming Chisum or Douglas, like Drake May can kind of make anyone decent for fantasy right now. There was also some
14:01interesting stuff going on with the backfield. You know, Trevion Henderson somehow injures his ankle last week, plays in this game, but is only able to
14:08play limited snaps. He fumbles in this game, gets benched for the fumble, and then doesn't play anymore. Uh, played 34% of the early down snaps. Raandre
14:18Stevenson sort of effectively got benched in this game. He didn't get benched. He just did not play very well and Cory Ker had the hot hand. So Cory
14:27Ker ends up with 11 rushes. Seven rushes for Trevon Henderson, only 14 for Arandre Stevenson. Kinder getting touches is so bad for Henderson or
14:36Raandre. This is something we've really learned about fantasy football. Guys can sustain being in a two-way time share, but a three-way time share is untenable
14:45for anyone that you are going to be starting. So, we do need and and honestly Henderson has just not been good as an NFL player. Like, he has been
14:54explosive and he's the only one of these three guys that you think can score like a 55 yard touchdown, but NFL coaches
15:01don't really care about that. NFL coaches care more about protecting the ball. They care more about, you know, minding what you're supposed to be doing
15:09on every play. They want you to be good in in the passing game. They want you to do your job. They they I don't know why
15:15this is this wouldn't be how I would coach NFL teams, but it is kind of how it's certainly how Mike Brael and Josh
15:20McDaniel do it. So, I'm gonna have a hard time ranking Raandre and Henderson next week. I would expect Henderson to keep kind of playing through this bum
15:28ankle and just not play that well. And I'll I'll be also very curious what the coaches say about Ker throughout the
15:35week. The Saints backfield has turned into just a just a crazy nightmare.
15:40Alvin Kamar turned back the clock to 2020 on a 41 yard receiving touchdown where he looked like vintage Kamar, you know, putting putting his hand on the
15:48back of uh his blocker and everything.
15:5014.9 PBR points for him, but did that on only nine routes, four targets, and seven carries. Meanwhile, Kendra Miller scores nine PBR points, gets 20 carries
16:00in a game that the Saints lead for a huge chunk of the game, but only runs five routes. Then CJ Donaldson is out
16:07there for the long down and distance stuff, but never gets the ball. I ranked Kendre in my top 100 last week. And I
16:15mean, I guess if you started him, you will take the nine PPR points, but Kamara, I don't really think is going to
16:21be particularly startable. I mean, seven carries and four targets, you you want to have better than that. Theoretically, uh, you know, Etchen is going to be able
16:30to come back and start for the Saints at some point. Are they still going to be playing Kendra then? Are they still
16:35going to be playing Donaldson? Like is is the Saints backfield going to be Etchen Kamar Donaldson with Kendra is the healthy scratch? Like that is a
16:42nightmare situation. And if you guys think the Saints backfield is a quagmire, I mean the Giants backfield that is a quagmire. I don't even need to
16:52talk about Malik Neighbors or Isaiah likely anymore. You know, every single week I've been saying got to buy Malik Neighbors. This guy is is an absolute
16:58smash. But likely also just an insane smash in fantasy football. So Scataboo is benched. We get the warning before the game that this is going to happen. I
17:07nuked uh Scataboo in my rankings. I ended up actually placing some real money wagers on Scataboo under. So, that was nice. Singleary is brought back from
17:16the healthy scratch list. He's the lead back, but he only scores four fantasy points. Singleary runs 11 routes, but has a nice receiving touchdown. Scores
17:2618 and a half fantasy points. Naji is like the short yardage guy. He scores 0.2 fantasy points. This is as bad as a
17:34backfield could possibly be. Four guys playing, including theoretically like the best running back on the team theoretically as Scataboo. I think what
17:44the Giants coaches have told us and shown us is very clear, which is they do not view Cam Scataboo as any different
17:50than any of these other guys. They think that he is a replacement level player, the same as Singleary, the same as
17:55Tracy, the same as Naji. They don't think any of these guys are any good.
17:59Jameus 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.
18:09Almost led the team like from a total come from mind. The Saints benched their starters and had to bring the starting
18:15offense back in because JJ McCarthy had played so well in that fourth quarter. I I don't I mean I don't think any of the
18:22Giants coaches are any good either. Like I have a very low opinion of Matt Naggie, of Greg Roman, of Harbaugh. I
18:28I'm like way lower than consensus on these guys. It'll be really interesting to see if J.J. McCarthy actually starts next week. But there was also this
18:36thought that I'm sure I was guilty of.
18:38I'm sure I've said it in one of these videos that, oh well, Malik Neighbors is going to be totally dead in fantasy
18:43football if McCarthy comes in. That is not what happened. Now, it's also totally possible McCarthy only played well because he was playing against, you
18:50know, very light, you know, sort of very easy defensive looks. And is there an easier spot to come in for a Well, it
18:57kind of goes both ways. Sometimes quarterbacks come in cold and play very poorly. I think JJ showed he was like in
19:03the moment. He was certainly feeling very zen. He was kind of just, you know, making the read, delivering the ball.
19:09Maybe with a week of preparation, he will actually be worse. But both likely and neighbors had very good fantasy results with J.J. McCarthy in there. I
19:17I'll have to do a lot of soulsearching and thinking about what to do with those guys if J.J. McCarthy ends up starting
19:21the Giants next game. Jaylen Coker returns to the lineup for the Carolina Panthers and mogs uh Teteroy McMillan in terms of overall usage. 11 targets to
19:30eight. 14 PPR points for Tet and 15 PPR points for Coker. Six for 97, six for 86. Honestly, both of them were were
19:39kind of fine. I just wanted to use the word Mog in one of these videos. One thing that was a little interesting
19:45about just watching this game, the overall fantasy points kind of ended up being okay. Two touchdowns for Tommy Tremble, by the way. That's very
19:51annoying. Bryce just did not look very comfortable. Some of the old Bryce Young stuff was starting to pop up. The Eagles
19:59are a difficult defensive matchup, but you know, maybe we just need to kind of re-evaluate what the given floor or ceiling for the Panthers is in a given
20:07week. And then Chuba Hubard just remains completely unbelievable role. 25 rushes, gets the goal line touchdown, gets over 100 yards. I mean, Chuba Chuba right now
20:16is the running back five in PPR fantasy points per game. just an unbelievably good draft pick. Uh was he for the
20:24Philadelphia Eagles. Jaylen Herd's going to be out for the rest of the year.
20:27Doctors found blood clots in his lungs.
20:30So I think we certainly have to reduce our expectations for Dallas, for Saquon Barkley, for Devonte Smith. They did huck the ball with Tanner McKe at
20:38quarterback, which is going to be a big switch from how things worked before.
20:42Damen Pierce completely dominated the Eagles backfield. Carson Steel seemed to break his arm early in this game. Jaden Blue did not play a snap despite being
20:51activated from the practice squad. 12 rushes including a goal line touchdown for Damen Pierce. Five targets in the passing game. Devont Smith gets 12
20:58targets, scores a touchdown, returns, plays quite well in his return from injury. Gddard, you know, just kind of eats up the short area stuff. But Damen
21:08Pierce, despite not playing well, is going to rank as a starting running back in fantasy football because they are just feeding him the ball. you know,
21:15they are just giving him the ball every down and distance, every opportunity.
21:18They they clearly have learned what every other NFL and college coach that Jaden Blue has, which is that we just don't want to be relying on this guy at
21:26all. McKe did not play well in this game. I mean, the Eagles really were never threatening to win here. They It
21:33was kind of just hless from them, but McKe's had better moments and and can play his way. So, like if you have
21:39Devont Smith, Mai Lemon, Dallas CD, Dantavian Wixs got banged up in this game. Um, as well, by the way, there there's potentially better stuff coming
21:47for Tanner McKe and for the Eagles. I mean, I don't think there's any chance they win the division or make the
21:51postseason or anything like that, but the Damen Pierce signal here is pretty big. Jeremy Bernard completely ascendant. He has basically just become
21:59Rando Cobb with Aaron Rogers. Crazy crazy low Ari share. crazy crazy low A dot but 11 for 87 and one. Jeremy is
22:09going to rank as a clear starting player and then Metaf finally has a good game as well. His average depth of target
22:15comes down. They were playing a bunch of absolute jam. I had never heard of this Brandon Smith guy. You know, fantasy
22:20football is my job and I had never heard of Brandon Smith who is not targeted in this game. It all went to Metaf and
22:26Bernard. Maybe the most annoying thing I've ever seen was that the Steelers coaches did try and force Jaylen Warren into a time share with Rico Dael until
22:35the game got serious. The early down snaps through three quarters. 19 for Warren, 14 for Dael. Then the game got serious and they tried to start winning
22:44and then they got into overtime and guess what happened when the game got serious? 31 of 37 snaps for Jaylen Warren in the fourth quarter in
22:52overtime. This is what's gonna happen though. It's so frustrating. It's so annoying. But in a lot of these games, Mike McCarthy and Brian Angelino and the
23:00Steelers coaching staff are going to try and put Jaylen Warren, who is way, way better than Rico Dael in this time
23:07share. Only ends up with 9.8 PPR points here. Could have been better. Actually, could have been worse, you know, without the fourth quarter and without overtime.
23:14But Jan Warren is so much better than Rico Dow. This is going to be one of the most frustrating backfields to watch for
23:20the entire rest of the season. On the Buccaneers side of the game, the Bucky Irving insane usage from last week actually translates again to this
23:29week. He gets 19 rushes. He gets 33 routes. Only 11 total snaps for Gainwell. Shawn Tucker did not play in this game. Only turns into 6.9 PBR
23:38points. Wouldn'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. I
23:46mean, not even arguably, like definitely better for Buck Irving. And then Ibuka, 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 PBR points for Iguka Jaylen Daniels absolutely fed him. We
24:06will see when and if Baker Mayfield is able to come back. But Igooka is going to be another guy that I move up my rest
24:12of season rankings because it just appears like Godwin doesn't have it. the Ted Hurst stuff like it's just you know Kate Aton can't earn a target to
24:19absolutely save his life. So Ibuka gonna be a guy I raise up my rest of season rankings. Another very strange one here.
24:25Bam Knight comes off the bench you know cold to basically split with Tyler Algier with no Jeremiah Love. Bam Knight played way better way better in this
24:34game. Ended up with 15 rushes for 80 yards. Like he looked so much better than Tyler Algier did. Ends up with 11.8
24:41PPR points. Only 5.8 for Algier. I started Algier in a couple spots. I used him in some daily fantasy lineups. Like
24:47I I did not think Alier, if you would have told me that the Cardinals won this game, I would have I would have ranked
24:53Alier as like a top 15 running back this week, I would have been like, "Oh my gosh, he probably got 32 rushes and
24:59played all the passing down stuff."
25:00That's not what happened at all. Bam Knight was I mean, it was basically a 50-50 split. It was basically like they
25:05put Bam Knight in the Jeremiah Love role, which does go to show there's more meat on the bone for Jeremiah Love. But
25:12it also goes to show this might just be like an ideological commitment thing from the Arizona Cardinals coaching staff that they prefer to have these
25:20running backs in, you know, kind of in a time share. And then a note here on Michael Wilson. I've gone back and forth
25:27on this. I was much lower than consensus on Michael Wilson coming into the season. I was also lower than Michael Wilson after his big first breakout
25:34game. I kind of capitulated. I kind of changed my mind. I moved him back up.
25:38And I think Michael Wilson is who he is.
25:40He's a nice player. He's a guy you'd like to have on your fantasy football team. But Michael Wilson is not like you
25:46should never start Michael Wilson over Matthew Golden or something like that.
25:50You know, I think he's he's a totally fine wide receiver three. But just given the overall efficiency of the offense in
25:55the fact that McBride is clearly number one and honestly Kendrick Bourne is like a decent target earner. I I think we can
26:02just kind of settle like Michael Wilson is a top 30 fantasy receiver but we don't need to rank him as a top 15
26:08fantasy football receiver for the rest of the season. We will see if Jeremiah Love is able to return next week. The
26:14Los Angeles Rams are having a complete nightmare of a season. I mean they are just scuffling at every possible opportunity. Puka falls down on what
26:24would have been a 60-yard touchdown.
26:25That would have changed it here. Kobe Parkinson ends up with a good game. Has six targets here. And Higgby lost a
26:32fourth quarter fumble. But the surprising thing to me was just how much Higgby played. This Terrence Ferguson Higgby roll. Like when Terrence Ferguson
26:40comes back from this ankle injury, he is going to get absolutely fed the ball. 48 of 58 snaps for Higgby. 30 of 36 routes.
26:48This is usage that was better than any Rams tight end last year. Obviously, Higgby when Ferguson comes back is going to go back to like barely playing
26:56because that was what was happening before and Ferguson is way way better than him. So, I I mean, if if Terrence
27:02Ferguson got dropped in your league, I I would add him right now. Devonte Adams also got injured late in this game and
27:08was seen off to the side with the trainers. I have not seen an update on what that was. Adams efficiency thing things are not looking great
27:16there. you know, he's I it's like part of this is Stafford, part of this is that Devonte Adams is 34, part of this
27:22is that the offensive line is not playing well, part of this is that Kairen has seen an expanded role, you know, kind of in the passing game. There
27:28there are a lot of complex reasons for this, but none of them make me feel that good about Devonte Adams moving forward.
27:34Like, you're not cutting him. It's not over. But it would it be surprising to me if from week seven on when Terrence
27:43Ferguson returns if he scores either the same amount or slightly more fantasy points than Devonte Adams. I mean, maybe that's maybe that's too crazy. Maybe I'm
27:51too biased towards Terrence Ferguson, but I don't think it's that insane given what we've seen from the Rams thus far.
27:57For the Los Angeles Chargers, Amarian Hampton snaps and usage rebound like very very slightly gets him up to 7.9 PPR points. Lad Makoni suffers a
28:07concussion in this game. Is only able to play eight snaps. I mean, the Chargers that is this the worst team in the NFL?
28:13Are the Chargers worse than the Dolphins? I mean, it feels like they might be. They score six points on offense. Herbert has 204 scoreless
28:21yards, eats four sacks. Keandre Lambert Smith leads the team in targets. QJ is useless. I mean, just drop QJ. Like, it's totally useless. Theo Whis who
28:30actually outproduced Luther Burden their final season together at Missouri ends up taking over the Lad Manunky role runs 24 of 44 routes. I don't know. I I think
28:39I'm done. I just don't think I'm going to rank a Charger in like my top 75.
28:43Like should shouldn't Herbert just like rest? Like why is Herbert even out there getting just like smoked in the face?
28:49They got to fire McDan. They should fire everyone. The entire coaching staff should be fired. Everyone involved with this team should should be fired. They
28:56should just forfeit the rest of their games. there there's no point for the Chargers season. 0 and6. The schedule remains insanely hard. Like it's I, you
29:06know, Videll kind of looks okay when he plays, but again, it's kind of much to do about nothing. There there's just
29:11nothing going on with the Chargers. The Kansas City Chiefs, it was Jaylen Royals who plays as the backup to Rashi Rice in
29:18this game. And then Andrew Armstrong, not Cyrus Allen, takes the Taekwon Thornton role. Only four routes for Cyrus Allen. 24 routes for Armstrong.
29:26They were mostly all in 11 personnel.
29:28Cyrus Allen plays nine snaps and 11 personnel, mostly taking the backup snaps from Royals. Andrew Armstrong had 11 and a half averaged up the target. He
29:36was the one who was running a little bit further down the field. As predicted on this channel, Noah Gray also saw a bump
29:43in targets and in overall snaps with no Taekwon Thornton and no Rashi Rice. The big deal with the Chiefs is well, two
29:50things. First is Kenneth Walker, you know, second overall player in fantasy football. He's going to break every record. like you you're really if you
29:58don't have Jir Gibbs or Kenneth Walker, it's going to be hard to win your league. The other annoying thing is Andy
30:03Reid just like refuses to let the Chiefs score fantasy points. They kick four field goals in this game. Three of them
30:10were inside the 30 yard line. They don't go for it. They they went for it on one fourth down. The Chiefs could have
30:15scored 40 points here if they wanted to.
30:17They basically just chose not to. It's really really frustrating as a Chiefs fan, as someone who has Mahomes on a lot
30:23of fantasy teams. I mean, obviously I also have Kenneth Walker on a lot of teams. And then I guess one more note
30:28here was that Xavier Worthy caught all of his targets, led the team in routes, led the team in targets, just like
30:34looked very confident. They were using him in a way that I've been wanting them to use him, which is on these horizontal
30:41breaking routes. When Worthy tries to run these vertical routes, he just kind of gets bullied because he is not big enough. He's not strong enough to to win
30:49on those routes. But when he goes horizontal, he can really use his speed and it's not as big of a deal that he
30:56can't decelerate all that well because he can kind of just trend up into the area of the field where he feels
31:02comfortable. Almost sort of like a punt returner or something like that. And it would really be usage that I would like
31:07to see him used in that way for the rest of the season. But any any game that Rashi Rice doesn't play, I think you you
31:14have to rank worthy as a starting player. Daltton Concincaid actually has a strong route right here. has a a nice, you know, targets per route run. I He
31:23just can't seem to put it all together.
31:24He can't seem to also have the high average depth of target and the target share. He can't seem to have the really
31:31high target share and and also score a touchdown. Like, it's ever since week two, it just has not happened for Dalton
31:37Concincaid this year. And it's uh it's very it's very very very annoying. I I really bought in after the first two
31:45weeks of the of the season on Daltton Concaid and it just hasn't really worked out. No DJ Moore in this game. Keon
31:51Coleman. Keon Coleman looks like a real receiver. Uh he scores a touchdown.
31:55Shakir scores a touchdown as well. If you have not seen it, the play that Keon Coleman scored was just a total MVP
32:00Superman freaking play from Josh Allen.
32:03I I think you got to respect Chess Liam's goat Josh Allen. It was an incredible incredible play. But concaid, I said in last week's tight end ranking
32:11video, I'm giving him one more chance.
32:13He sort of did have, I guess, the the usage, the thing that I want you guys to look at kind of like intelligently
32:20looking at how players segment themselves. The usage was better. 22 of 35 routes, eight targets, led the team in targets. They go into their by-week,
32:27then DJ Moore comes back. Theoretically, DJ Moore coming back might be helpful, but a tight end 14 week for Dalton Concaid could be better, could be worse.
32:37It's very hard to rank Daltton Concaid.
32:38I don't know. You guys comment down below. What are you guys doing with Dalton Concincaid in Vantage Football?
32:42Ashen Genty remains limited due to injury. 57% snap share for him. 76% in weeks one through four. 53% in week five. Mike Washington handles nine
32:52carries. 10 carries for Genty. Luckily, Genty does cash in a touchdown here. I really wish they would just let this guy
32:58rest and they're not going to. He does get the touchdown this week, which I talked about in the video last week. I
33:05said, "Hey man, you play this much and you're this good, you are going to positively regress." He does positively regress a little bit though. Mike
33:12Washington Jr. takes a little bit off of his plate as well. Lowi plays less in this game because the score was closer.
33:18So Washington plays a little bit more.
33:20Trey Tucker scores two deep bombs.
33:22That's the second time he has had his explosion game this year. So if you started Trey Tucker, shout out to you.
33:27The Bills defense is so bad, so we can continue to target them with explosive plays. Michael Mayer was until the fourth quarter of this game absolutely
33:36dominating Bowowers. Bowowers ends up racking up 11 PPR points with all of the production coming in the second half of this game. This is the way the Raiders
33:45are going to play. Bowowers is a slot wide receiver. It's going to be the crucial point for opposing defenses to limit and bracket Brock Bowers as much
33:53as they can. The Bills do get the win here while sort of letting Michael Mayer do whatever he wanted. I mean, tight end
33:58five on the week for Michael Mayer.
34:00Obviously, I'm not concerned about Bowers. The more interesting thing is how do you rank Michael Mayer, who is an inline blocking tight end who plays with
34:10a guy as good as Bowers in a given week.
34:12Jaylen Naylor returned here and did absolutely nothing. I don't know if you still have Jaylen Naylor in your league.
34:16Go ahead and drop him. Matthew Golden is an absolute star. 13 targets here, 22 PPR points, dropped literally two more
34:27touchdowns. I mean, Matthew Golden could have had, you know, 180 yards and three touchdowns in this game. I I rank him as
34:34a starter every single week. I am higher than consensus on Golden and rest of season rankings. I think you got to do
34:39whatever you can to get Matthew Golden on your fantasy team. Only eight of 40 targets here for Christian Watson. This has been the thing that I've been saying
34:46is in my heart of hearts, my true serum take is that I do think Matthew Golden is better than Christian Watson. I know
34:51no one agrees. I know I'm totally out on an island here, but love Matthew Golden.
34:55Seavon Williams comes off the IR and replaces Sky Moore as the slot wide receiver here. I thought that was interesting. So, I don't know if you
35:04Savon Williams deep league, 14 team league, 15 team league. Also got two carries as well. Pierre Strong replaced Marshon Lloyd because Marshon Lloyd is
35:12like the worst running back I've ever seen in my life. Plays football without hamstrings. He was hurt in the first quarter, went to the medical tent and
35:19returned uh after the two drives after his injury. Strong played 20 of 28 snaps. But neither of these guys matter because Josh Jacobs is now unsuspended.
35:29He is off the commissioner's exemplus and will be returning as the starting running back for the Green Bay Packers.
35:34You can drop Pier Strong, frankly, you can drop Marshon Lloyd. Josh Abs is going to return to a gargantuan role in
35:41fantasy football. And last note here on the Green Bay Packers, it is completely giga mega 1 billion% over for Jake Ferguson. 29 of 56 routes. He's getting
35:52replaced in 11 personnel by Brevin Span Ford. Five targets for Span Ford, three for Jake Ferguson. Ferguson is basic, I mean, I guess he did play marginally. He
36:01played, you know, uh, uh, six more snaps than Span for, but it's over for Jake Ferguson. Not having a good year. Make
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