Full Week 3 Fantasy Football Recap | Fantasy Focus
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The fantasy football landscape in Week 3 is marked by significant inconsistencies and injuries. The Chargers continue to falter, with Justin Herbert below expectations and key running backs like James Cook and Ronda Gaston failing to deliver, pushing them into a deep defensive and offensive slump. The Jets had a breakout from Garrett Wilson, but their offense remains overshadowed by a weak defense. The Steelers showed strong offensive cohesion with Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase, though Chase Brown struggled, reinforcing the need for depth. The Chiefs saw promising returns from Rishi Rice, who regained a role with volume and production, while the Colts remain a weak point due to low target shares and inconsistent performance from their wide receivers and running backs. The Dolphins were hit hard by a torn ACL to Devon H.N., creating a serious running back shortage and raising concerns about roster depth. The Jaguars delivered strong individual performances from Parker Washington and Basel Tutan, but lack of quarterback support and inconsistent game planning limit ceiling. The 49ers showed flashes of strength with Purdy and George Kittle, but injuries to key players like Mike Evans and Justin Jefferson add uncertainty. Overall, fantasy managers are left balancing high-risk, high-reward matchups with injury concerns and inconsistent team performances, especially in backfield depth. The week underscores the importance of depth planning, injury awareness, and situational awareness when building rosters.
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We have more, but let's dive into. - Yeah, we have 57 minutes left, and we're just going to talk ball now. - Yes, we are. - We are to get to today. - Yes, we do. - A lot of football here in week three. We're going to do the Monday night football preview. Dive into our week three recap field. We're going to start with you chargers and bills. - Yeah, for the first time all season, Josh Allen wasn't the best player on your fantasy roster. 17.46 fantasy points. That's the most interesting thing for the bills for me. There were two things. First of all, Dawson Concade finally comes back down to earth. He played 54% of the snaps. He had played 72% in the first two weeks. Now, he got banged up at one point. Did Dawson Concade? I don't think it's anything serious or of note, but he saw just three targets. So all the optimism we saw in the first two weeks kind of came back down to earth for Concade. This just, and he plays tight end. There aren't a bunch of options. By confidence, definitely reduced a little bit compared to the first two weeks. But not enough that I don't think that Dawson Concade is a viable starter going forward. - Yeah, just keep in mind, DJ Morela, the team of 22 routes run Concade at 26 pass attempts. So very involved when they're throwing the ball, that's huge. - And DJ Morela had 17 of Josh Allen's 26 targets yesterday. I thought the most interesting thing from this game, though, was the James for the bills. - What did you just say? - You said 17 of his 26 targets. Still a big number, though. - I got the 17. - I'm glad that Mike and I both, like, we, we, we. - I thought he heard it, too. That's what I looked at you. - You know what it is? I'm still hung up from that great talk. - That's what I appreciate a few. - 10 of his 26 targets. He did DJ More. He has been really steady for the first three weeks, and obviously played through an injury. He had that week two injury, but week one and week three, he was really steady, is DJ More. James Cook ends up with 19.4 fantasy points. 154 rushing yards. He's now third pending Monday night football in the NFL in rushing yards. - You frustrated, though? - No, I'm not frustrated. I would just say that one thing that was fed to us this season, that definitely hasn't come to light, is that James Cook is not a factor in this. - Not buying that. - Not at all. - Yeah. - Hi, Johnson came back four targets in this one. And he's been out the first two weeks soon. It still didn't really affect Cook very much. It did a little bit, but not much. Yeah, that's a, I wanna say a problem, 'cause you know he's gonna produce on the ground, so he'll be okay, but his ceiling is a little bit limited compared to those other guys. - He is a little bit more, he's like Derek Henry. He's just not the stature of Derek Henry, but the elite rushing opportunities are there for James Cook. Four catches through three games for James Cook. We can be brief on the chargers, because honestly, I don't wanna talk about them anymore. Justin Herbert, under 13 fantasy points, they play Seattle next week. Of the chargers right now, how many of these players deserve without question to being your lineup every single week? - I mean, I'm still gonna go with Ladmin. - I almost said Macdonkey. - I can't even say Ad Macdonkey. - It is bad Macdonkey right now. I still went for for 66 in this one, so I'm gonna stick with him. And I think I'll marry in Hampton, although same thing with James Cook. I mean, he's almost a zero in the passing game this year. It's a big problem. - It is a big problem. - He only ran six rounds. Keaton Mitchell had the touchdown yesterday, so he has 13.7 points. - Keaton Mitchell's line. - So is this even line? - What was his receiving line feeling? - Three catches for negative five yards. It's very macchi lemon. - Three catches, negative five yards, and a touchdown. - But the touchdown was impressive. I had to get around. - It was a little. - He showed his speed. - Oh yeah. - It was a little once from the quarterbacks. Where Justin Herbert does get his only touchdown of the day there. How about this? Ronda Gaston felt like he was in a really good spot, right? There were no healthy tight ends, basically, for the chargers. - 26 her outs. - 26 her outs. - 26 her outs. - He had zero points. - Oh, okay, zero catches. - He did, if you're looking for some optimism, have a drop on one of his three targets. He almost had like three fantasy points. We really, I mean, really need tight end options to emerge on the waiver wire because it's so thin as it is. The answer for Ronda Gaston in the first opportunity to be the guy is, no, no, no. So I don't know, man, like you can, I think you're right. I think a Marian Hampton's gonna be inside our top 25 for next week amongst running backs. Even in a bad matchup against the Seahawks. Three weeks is not enough to define a season, but it's getting dangerously close for the chargers here. - And it has to schedule the next two months. - Oh, just terrible. - Oh, that's great. - Yeah, Seahawks next week. - It'd be the hardest schedule. - It's over, it's out on Justin Herbert. I wanna apologize to America, awful, terrible. I can't believe I thought this guy would be as good as he potentially could be. I don't understand what on earth is happening. I'm so frustrated that I am relegated as you're just folding papers in my hands because it's the only way to contain my frustration. Otherwise, guys, Mike McDaniel, what on earth, has this guy done to supercharge the offense? I miss Greg Roman. I swear, I do. - Oh, that's fair. - They were bad, right? - Yes, the chargers as a team are certainly better. - They were better and like, by the way, the freaking kicker isn't even good anymore. Cameron Dicker, who not only did kick a ton of field goals, but never misses. - Yeah, not always missing it. - So, the five yarder yesterday, he missed a 58 yarder last week. I'll give that a pass, but the freaking kicker isn't even good. - I have a friend in a league who it's a league of my wife and I, there's 12 of us, it's six couples. And one of the people in the league thinks it's funny, they just named him Cameron Dicker, the kicker, right? So she prioritizes drafting him every year at your area, whatever, it's her thing. I had to break the news story yesterday that I was like, "I'm sorry, but your kicker now sucks." Like, "I'm sorry." - Does she know that legally, his name isn't Cameron Dicker, the kicker? - No, he told her, "Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay." - Oh, yeah, that's what it is. - But whatever, it's, it's. - Honestly, so we're gonna, like, Omarin Hampton has gone from being a potential high, low-end RB-1, high-end RB-2 to a low-end RB-2, maybe a flex option. Ladma Conkey is probably more of a high-end flex than a wide receiver, too, at this point. Or maybe even a, you know, just a regular flex, maybe not even a high-end flex. And then we're out on Justin Herbert not starting this week. - Yeah, all right, yeah. We'll see what the rankings look like on Wednesday, but for now, it's not great, guys. - It's bad, it is so bad. - Yeah, let's talk about just lines. Next one up, my friends. Wines try to give this one away. I'll tell you what, Jumir Gibbs is so good at football. If you use the 1.01 pick on him, he continues to do the thing. 20 carries, 99 yards, two touchdowns. Plus eight targets in the passing game, seven catches for 65 yards, and another touchdown, my friends. Unbelievable what this guy has been able to do. And honestly, he kind of took the sizzle away from everybody, because in this one, it really was just. - Just him, yeah. - It was just Jumir Gibbs. Jared Goff had 19.3 fantasy points, like great for him as like a fill in quarterback. - Still what he did. - But Amanra got lucky with the touchdown, being able to get 11.9 points. That's a disappointing number for Amanra St. Brown. But also, if you're a floor of a disappointing game as 11.9 fantasy points, that means you're doing pretty well. - That is basically his floor. So, he has five touchdowns, three games. He's second in the league and targets, second in the, amongst wide receivers and fantasy points. Sam Laporta only four targets in this one, a little bit of a disappointment. And Jemo, back to back games with only four targets as well. We're going to do a segment, hopefully at some point this week. It's a fish or cut bait segment. And it's basically going to be players that came into this season as likely lineup options. Maybe not locks, but lineup options. I've heard the side weather after three bad weeks, there is any room for optimism. James and William should be sure to add a discussion. - He's a huge point, perturget kind of guy. He can take any, like that's the thing with him, right? He'll do it.
know quickly. Boom bus, but it's been bus, bus, bus. So for correct. So I'm not really sure he's the flex option that we thought he was lions get the panthers for us worth in week four for the jets. Breeze Hall got banged up in this one. Unfortunately groin injury bummed about that didn't look good. Second week in a row. This is sort of the Breeze Hall story though, right? Where he was very inefficient with his carries 13 for 32 2.5 yards per carry three catches for 23 yards. Unfortunately left in the fourth. This became a game in which the jets just had to throw a bunch and it looked like Geno Smith became the serviceable old man that Mike thought he was going to be crushed it. Son of a biscuit. Yeah. I think what I saw from Geno Smith is that what you if you need something from him later on this season as a by week villain. Okay, he's a potential by week villain based on the matchup that you potentially have when you see that it's a nice matchup. You love that. Garrett Wilson 10 for 107 and a touchdown on 13 targets. Still isn't in on Geno Smith. I my bigger takeaway is that Bryce Young is going to be ranked extremely high in my quarterback rankings in week four. I'm sorry. Yeah, just atrocious defensively. So bad. It's up anybody. They came into this game, allowing the most fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks and tight ends. Second most to wide receivers. Those might somehow get worse this week. They allow 23 fantasy points to Tyler Schuck, 40 fantasy points to Josh Allen and now 26 fantasy points to Geno Smith. And keep in mind, the Geno as you know, very popular in DFS. Just I think you even talked about him as a sleeper to be a streaming option last week. So again, back to earth next week for Geno. Like this is playing the Lions because of the matchup. Yeah. Yes. They play the Bears next week, which bears which well, they can match up. You know, he's a to your point, maybe a streamer occasionally. Yeah. In a nice matchup. That's all I want to tell him. That's his probably as far. Correct. And also with no A. D. Mitchell, no Mason Taylor, Kenyon Sedeek looked unbelievable. At least someone that you need to keep it. I'm going to be adding him. Yeah. And waivers, he'll be a popular waiver target here with the talent that he has now. Yeah. Well, Braille and Allen, by the way, as you mentioned, with Breeze Hall, we'll see what happens. Braille and Allen, like there is a pretty clear next man up for the Jets in the backfield. It's Braille and Allen. So we'll see if we get any updates on Breeze Hall today from Aaron Glenn. But either way, Braille and Allen's going to be added a lot. Yeah. Isaiah Davis had no touches prior in the game. So enough touches before or after this injury, which is late. Yeah. Hall could miss time. Garrett Wilson left the game, but it seems like he cleared concussion protocol if I understand correctly. So it should be good for next week. He had his breakout game. Boy, boy, you got what we wanted here. 13 targets, 10 catches, 170 yards and a touchdown of his own. So it was good to see him be featured. Obviously good matchup here for him, but all systems go for Wilson. Yeah. I think the question on the Jets, what we saw yesterday, all the positive stuff is just how much of that was about the Jets and making real strides offensively versus how much of that was the Jets facing what is I feel like the worst fantasy defense in the end. Yeah. Maybe the best fantasy defense. I will say it's a little bit of both in the sense that the Jets are not the Jets of last year or maybe the last 30 years. I don't know like they're better, but they're not an elite deep elite offense. My name is they're not going to put numbers up like this a little bit of both. That's right. I'm not reading into it too much to say that Jets are all of a sudden this thing. But when you get a nice matchup like they had this week, it showed that they have the talent to be able to take advantage of that. So that's the part that I was, I guess, pleased by from a Jets perspective, or cast Bryce Young big time DFS play this upcoming. Huge. Some of the night football in Carolina. That's right. That's right. Alana versus Detroit. Thank you, Jermir. As much as I thank you because you're living up. He's so good. 101. Billing. Imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new groupie setting mist from Maybelline, New York. Jell to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours with flexible all day comfy grip. No tightness, no stickiness, no residue. Just plum. Dewey hydrated skin. That still feels like your skin. Try new groupie setting mist from Maybelline, New York. Maybe it's Maybelline. Bangles and Steelers feel that'll be me. Yes, the bangles. They fall short. The Steelers put up 30 and they win. What a weird game this was, right? There was a there's some critical errors by the bangles yesterday. And they both had a personal foul on a punt, which I have a theory. This is very quick. I don't understand why teams rush the punter aggressively at all in the NFL. How many blockpunks we see a year? So worth it. Unless you're in desperation mode in the fourth quarter or something. I have it. Otherwise hold up and try to get a good return. The bangles also muffed a punt. It doesn't matter for our purposes. What does matter is that they put up 27 points and it was a good day for three out of the four guys that matter in this Cincinnati offense, right? Joe Burrow first quarterback to solve the Steelers and two games this season, nearly 23 fantasy points for him. Jamar Chase, nine for 98 and a touchdown. Ho-Hum for Jamar Chase. Back to back games when they touched down. He had two in week two. He's awesome. Not much more to say there. T. A. Gaines does what he does every once in a while. Got you down as well. Thanks for 90 and a touchdown there. Disappointing game for Chase Brown. Just eight point nine fantasy points, mostly because he had only two catches for eight yards. I don't feel like I feel no differently about the bangles out of this game as it did coming into this game. It's those four guys. You're probably starting each and every one of them. Micah Sikki might be the king of odd weeks. Week one, he was great. Week two, he had zero. Week three, 12.7 fantasy points. He also hit the gritty yesterday, but I am not starting. Micah, two way to boom, but maybe the most boom bus player in the game. I mean, yes, he's up there. I think there's a couple of teams that are like the bangles that you mentioned today, where it's like they are who we thought they were. We'll probably say that a couple times with the way that they looked. I love these wow stick tweets, bangles losing was my fault because I went to a wedding. Yeah, I do think I'd say on Chase Brown is definitely underwhelming so far, but you did that last year. The first like six weeks of the season season. No, he used to just still there. Not not worried about that one. Agreed. On the stealers side. So Drico Dato gets hurt or excuse me. It does not play. Yeah. Inactive for this game. And we got banged up last week. They have a short week to the stealers. That could be a multi week thing. And it was a Jalen Warn show and did it ever pay off. Jalen Warn played 78% of the snaps. He had four targets for that in a three catches for 49 yards. He had 17 rushes for 127 yards. There also was a massive Jalen Warn run called back because of a penalty. This day could have been even bigger, but this guy's just a really darn solid football player. It's just that Mike has highlighted how unfanously friendly the stealers are are excuse me. Mike McCarthy. Yes. Two running backs. And if Rico Dato is back. That's the key. In the next couple of weeks, this trends really close to a dead zone. The only thing that I'll say to speak out of both sides of my mouth. There's a long list of running back dead zones right now. Yeah, more so than I am comfortable. We're going to get to another one that's developing here soon or already was one. Now it's even more so one, but we'll get to that in a little bit. For the Steelers past catchers. Yeah, DK Meccaf finally finds the end zone three for 31 and a touch down. I bailed out DJ Turner shattered him. Yeah. There's not as Steelers past catcher that you want to be starting right now. Not right now. Aaron Rodgers did sort of turn back the clocks. He did look legitimately really good in the first half of this game. But we talk about fantasy football. Right. Like the goal is to not like who cares about finishing third versus sixth versus 12. Right. You want to win. Right. And the Steelers as far as priority players are concerned, are not going to be starters amongst any of those past catchers. The only guy in the Steelers offense that is startable for a league that you want to line up that is actually optimized is a running back when the other one is hurt. Otherwise, Steelers are basically a stay away from me. Yeah. This is one good. This is one of those situations where you know that Aaron Rodgers, like he's going to have a glimpse of old Aaron Rodgers at some point this season. This was one of those games where he looked like vintage Aaron Rodgers, but he's probably going to go back to the guy that we saw. I don't love the target share when you look at it. Jalen Warren had four targets. Roman Wilson had six DK McCaff had five. Darnell Washington had four Pat Fryer. Moose had four. Michael Pittman had five. Like it is he is just giving it to a little bit of everybody. Yeah. And our guy that we were out on DK McCaff Mike and I coming into the season. We thought because of the short area, the the areas as field likes to talk about. It was going to be the Michael Pittman show has not been that so far. I mean, yeah, he was in practice all last week. So you would have thought he would have got rolling here, but maybe it's just not there yet. Roman Wilson had the hot start caught the long touchdown and then kind of nice over the shoulder. Yeah. So, but pretty after I make him my Raheem standards, but he scores a touchdown. Of course. Of course. That happens. Oh, by the way, I mentioned the jets. I said, hey, there are two other options that I want. If my Raheem Sanders doesn't hit one of them, Jeremy Rucker tied in for the jets. I should have taken him. He scored. He scored. He scored. I took AJ Dillon instead. I should have taken Jeremy. I'm getting it to talk about that. But he barely played. I know. All right. Anyways, Chiefs Dolphins friends, who wants to talk about the Chiefs in Dolphins? Mike, it would be me. A big story here is something that happened early on in this game. Sadly, it hurt me. It avoided our board bet, Daniel. Yeah. Yes. And out with an injury, it's knee related and it does not sound good. According to that coach, we're going to be looking at Ollie Gordon on waivers. Keep in mind that Jalen Wright was an actor for this game. I would expect him to be pretty involved as well. We don't know exactly who the number two is going to be. But Ollie Gordon, I didn't really steal the job by any means in this one. 17 for 41 and a touchdown. Three catches on three targets for 14 yards. Help me the priority for me just because he's the healthy one right now. But also, I'm not sure we're going out of our way to invest heavily in this Dolphins backfield. What's unfortunate is Devon H&N came out strong. Had a couple of good plays. They finished that drive with a touchdown by Ollie Gordon. And you think what could have been for H&N in this one, but obviously, probably a long term injury could be season ending, but we don't know that for sure. I just want to like a little bit of grace to live in the moment because this isn't about the Devon H&N injury. But as a fantasy manager, when you've had a disappointing player for the first two weeks of the season, and then they unfortunately leave the game because they get hurt. And then on that same drive, the position that he plays scores a
touchdown. It hurts extra hard. Like it's just so frustrating. I don't know what you do about it. But if you, if you were in that situation, please know that the rest of us were too. Yeah. I was very downtrodden. Very frustrating. Even the play he got hurt, he just saw it. It was such a nice run. Yeah. Like man, this guy is so skilled. Like he is one of the best players in the league. So super disappointing. Obviously we'll update you on that later this week. We're going to monitor Chris Bell as well. No Caleb Douglas in this one. He goes for for 67 on seven touchdowns. It's an end of bench guy for now. We're not starting him. Seven, watch him. What did I say? Touchdowns. That would be a lot. That would be good. You should have a mix of your numbers today. 17, seven, seven, yeah. It's been, it's been busy since yesterday. Seven targets. Four catch of 60, seven yards. Chris Bell, draft pick. Third round out of Louisville. What can you tell us about Chris Bell? He looks like AJ Brown in terms of stature. He tore his ACL in November. He tore his ACL one day after I put out a mock draft in which I had him going in the first round. Was that a popular where you? I would say I was like, you know, pretty much in line with where a lot of other people in the industry were find out talent. They later that he tears ACL and he has been kindly allowed me to they were like, let's just not have a guy for his ACL. It was he was it was pick 32. Okay. So it's an easy swap to make. Okay. He did have one explosive catch yesterday. So I would say that Miami is full of a lot of guys that are intriguing for dynasty. But going forward, assuming Devon H and his out 10 team leagues, I don't think anybody cracks a line up. No, not right now, but Bell has the broad talent and the increasing role that maybe he's certainly worth a bench spot, I would say, but I won't go further in that Malik Wallace efficiency. He has been great, but 210 passing yards. If we can keep getting him to 200, maybe somebody develops in that passing game, but nothing at the moment. The other side kind of home for the chiefs offense in the backfield. Ken Walker, the third just does it again guys 18 for 70 and a touchdown. And then two targets catches another touchdown as well. The guy is just the machine so far, certainly a week to week top five, maybe top three fantasy running back. So let's just keep that rolling. Nothing really to say about my homes and Kelsey. Kelsey finds the end zone. Again, my home's throws two touchdowns. They are what we thought they were going into the week mid range to good starters at their island positions. I think the biggest note for me from this one was finally, finally, finally, even in a low volume passing game, they featured Rishi Rice. It seems like he's back ran 18 routes. Guys, he had nine targets. Got seven for 88 yards. It's good to see. I feel like he missed all that time and they've ramped him up the first few weeks of the season. I moved, I moved him up in my rankings for next week, bumped the target share back up where we think it should be not an average of where it's been. That's a really good sign. I think at the worst season mid range, wide receiver, two but trending up to extrapolate that point to boost further optimism into it. Yesterday, Rishi Rice had four catches on ball throne under five yards down the field. That was his bread butter, right? It was basically extension of the running game. Weeks one and two, he had two catches there. The chiefs also had a play from the two yard line where Rishi Rice, it either got whistled right as the ball was snapped or it was whistled, you know, like it was a delay of game or a timeout, but you saw what the chiefs were about to do and they were about to do the push past Rishi Rice. So a day that was solid, seven for 88 could have easily been eight for 90 with a touchdown as well. And we'll be saying to ourselves, like, wow, is Rishi Rice back to be any top 15 wide receiver? Not, I'm not totally certain. That's where he's going yet, but I'm with Mike. That was very encouraging to see. Also, this is the other side of the coin of you have to play everybody against Miami. Sometimes game script might go against some of the players you have that kind of happened with Patrick Mahomes score. I mean, it wasn't a bad game, but only scored 15.9 fantasy points because it didn't work out for him. Yeah. Battle of the three and no teams next week. By the way, the NFL is more fun when the Raiders are good. So I'm excited. This one. They're like legitimately good. Yeah. And what's interesting is first overall pick of the draft hasn't even played it down yet. So and he shouldn't for a while, the way the projections are every week already projected. So I just have to keep bumping Mendoza's first start down the road. Yeah. Deeper and deeper is it, you know, until they, if they fall to like four and eight, it's a car, you know, it's going to be a while, but that, you know, the three and no right now. What can you say? All right, let's do it. Let's talk about the next one. Oh, sorry. The Texans and Colts is the next game here. AFC South, the Texans for the second straight year are now in three to start the season. This game wasn't fun. It wasn't until Nico Collins returns. I don't want to be sure you want to play a text. I know that I keep saying that guys, but that I think is one of the early themes of fantasy football this year is that we've got like eight teams or 10 teams, Daniel, where nobody feels like the kind of guy you really want to be playing. I saw you raising your hand. Yes. I, because I think that we're three weeks into it now going into week four. And after that first week at Dave Montgomery, I was, hey, man, running back position is a position that you want to have a little bit of extra depth at. I'm not sure I would have moved on from him. After the first three weeks, I think you guys were absolutely right. He was a great sell high candidate for you in week one. Still that running back position is tough. You're always looking for guys that are going to get volume. But him and Woody marks both touched the ball in this offense. Looks so uninspiring that it doesn't feel like David Montgomery is the RB two. We were hoping he was going to be if you did keep him. He did have a two to one edge in rushes. And he had a two to one edge, literally two to one in targets to what he marks. What did you have for snap percentage for Woody marks? My number of feelings. Woody marks. Let's see. I don't have it. Monty was 68 65 for Montgomery. Oh, total snaps 33 to 18. Okay. Edge to Montgomery. So he did take an edge there, which is funny because you know, we were getting criticized for saying he was a sell high after week one. You could almost argue. He's a by low now just two weeks later. So the pendulum has gone the complete other direction. I don't want to play no one from the Texans though, if Nico other than Nico, it just don't look. Yeah, Monty will still kind of be in that territory. They play the Cowboys, the Battle of Texas next week. Two teams combined for one win. But Monty, kind of the only guy until Nico is back to will really be discussing. Dolce and he all stood for next. Oh, good. Oh, sorry. I was just going to say it was good for next week. You said it looks, it looks promising for next week for Nico. So, but we'll monitor that throughout the week. By the way, if you guys ever hear any of us disagree with things like snaps or routes or targets on Monday morning show, we're all pulling from like there are a few different well-regarded services that might be off a little bit on top of that. Some of these things are like updated throughout the day. Like snap percentage, especially it's hard to track 11 players in live time and data input right now. You'll have like next and tracking and then they get cleaned up on Monday. So, but they're always going to be close. It's just, you know, so I asked Mike what his snap percentage was on Woody Marsh, because mine did not look good for the Colts. A dud for Jonathan Taylor. He's good for a couple of those each year because he's not a gigantic factor in the passing game. Just two catches for four yards. But if I told you 26 touches for 20, actually 25, but 26 opportunities for Jonathan Taylor, you're signing up for that site. Yes. Unseen. Tyler Warren was a bright spot yesterday. He had 10 targets of Daniel Jones, 36 attempts and he averaged again under six yards of catch. So the big plays are not there for Tyler Warren, but that volume is hard to argue with. And the clock was turned back once again. Sure old friend. He and Alan. He's going to have a few of these games this year. Like three. Yep. Here's one of them. Yeah. Daniel Jones. I was thinking about this. He had 7.9 fantasy points. I'm sorry to say this line again, but like wide receivers for the Colts. Josh Downs is the closest to startable for me. He had 11 of Jones, 36 targets. But I don't think there's anybody that is a lineup lock right now about amongst the wide receivers. I wanted to mention Daniel Jones here for a minute, though, because he came into this year and there were some people that were asking like, Hey, so good last year. Like Daniel Jones, be one of those guys that no one talked about a quarterback in all preseason. He looked up after six games and he's quarterback 11 and rediscover some of the magic from last year. What got him to QB seven last year? They'll feel it was his rushing up. This is Russian upside this Daniel Jones yesterday. Three rushes for five yards. I believe he had a fumble or two as well. Yes, I'm not sure. But the one thing I'll say is he wasn't. He didn't run as much as we thought last year in the past Russian new goal line. But the thing was the Colts when he was healthy, ravaging like three and a half touchdowns per game, which was not something that they were going to sustain year over year. But that was a reason to say, OK, and a 12 team league, maybe one of my last picks, take a shot just in case they come out. And you know, honestly, last week week to where they put up 30 points in that game. I mean, so I understand taking like it, he's basically free and draft. So I get that. But obviously it has not come to fruition. He either needs to start running more or they need to start scoring at the rate they did last year. It's going to be one or the other. And that's asking a lot. Well, keep in mind, they do play next weekend a broad international game. I think it's London. They play the commanders next weekend. So if ever there was a time for Daniel Jones to get on track next week, would be it. Yeah. But for now, the Colts are a Jonathan Taylor and a Tyler Warren team. Man, I feel like we are just totally eliminating guys from our team leagues. But it has been an inauspicious start for many more players than we expected. A little bit of an inauspicious start for the Washington commanders. Did Marcus Mariotta get a dub in this one, guys? He did. That was one of the shocker sea ox coming all the way across the country. And a little bit of a trap game here. I guess because Mario to step in and gets the job done. They went 33, 31. This was a fun game to keep an eye on. Mariotta, we talked about him last week. This is going to be a streaming option. Yeah. It's a lot with his legs. He threw at least one passing touchdown in every game last year. Average over 200 passing yards. This one little short of 200 yards is enough to throw it a lot. They were ahead throughout most of this one. But still toss three touchdowns, only 11 rushing arts. Again, when games are more competitive, he'll have a higher number in that department. So we'll keep an eye on him as a streamer. The best news though, got the ball to Terry McLaren. That was McLaren yesterday. So he was outstanding. He started slow again. And I was getting nervous. Like here we go again. But nope, nine targets, six sketches, 77 yards and a touchdown. He's going up Stefan Digs.
His playing time's gone up his digs, but the production kind of came back to Earth. Maria, the two touchdown game last week, just four for 33 in this one. But we noticed this Terry's offense and he showed that yesterday. Um, I, that's the old thing on the, on the commanders is that I actually felt like early in the game, Jacori Croskey Merritt was running well. Yeah. And then at the end of the game, you're like, wow, 5.3 fantasy points. Yeah. No doubt. Uh, he is handling a big bulk of the carries here, but again, under two yards per carry and a non factor in the passing game is a 3% target share exactly all three games this season. And guess what guys might be about to get worse because that into the 53 man roster is our old friend, Austin Eccler, that's right. I quit the commander. So, uh, remember, he played a pretty sizable role. No years ago. And then last year, the first week and a half before he got injured, um, he won't have a huge role as a russia. I would imagine I'm going to guess about 20% of the carries, but he'll have a role in the passing game. We know that's where he really excels. So if this was already a dead zone, we were already not touching these guys. JCM, I was going to say before this news was arguably droppable. I know you're getting the carries, but if he's a zero in the passing game in this offense, it's like so hard to start him. But now with that color there, it's even more problematic. I'm going to take a quick pause here with some breaking news from Adam Schaeff to feel about it. Yeah. Devon H.N. Has suffered a torn ACL. Yeah. Which seemed like we were trending that way based off of the tone from Jeff Hathley last year. I'm on Ali Gordon and Jalen Wright on tomorrow's waiver show. There was a point yesterday during the game where the dolphins were without any healthy running backs on the, on the field. Yeah. They were like, it was a brief point. Ali Gordon got back in, but they're thin at running back beyond Devon H.N. Wow. That's thanks. I was hoping he would. Cause Jarquist Hunter will be a next man up as well. Yeah. I actually liked him as a prospect. I thought he would eventually beat like horror mount in L.A., but that did not come to a fruition. But we'll keep an eye on that. Yeah. First of all, but so sad I was hoping H.N. would kind of prove all the doubters wrong and that he can make it happen in this offense. But on to next year, the only silver lining, it's week three, hopefully he'll be 100% for week one next year in a better offense. Back to the sea ox. I was just talking about. This is important. Yeah. I was talking about, well, I was going to start with the running backs. Is that okay? This is important. Yeah. Oh, definitely. All right. I was making sure we were on the same. Yeah. It's important to talk about JSN. It's important to. What's the analogy? I was worried there. I was worried about the field by talking about the wrong. I know. I know. I know. This is really important. Oh, man, that was scary. I just said we want to ignore the Washington running back room. Same thing in Seattle now. Yes. It is a mess. It was, look, generic price. The first drive, you're like, okay, all right. He got all the action, got all the snaps, got three carries that he fumbled. And then it was, that was it. He ended up playing 17 snaps in this game. Five carries for 15 yards. One catch for seven yards and three targets. I was all in on Jardarian prices. You guys know, I love the Benz and RB two. I love the situation. No one else in this backfield has taken control over the first three weeks. That's correct. That's the problem. I thought it might be him with his draft category and where he was added as not materialized. Go ahead. Just around that out. I mean, Wilson ends up playing 24 snaps at nine carries in the game. George Lonnie played 23 snaps. Hollani very involved in the passing game. None of the other running backs are Wilson's the lead rusher. So you have Wilson lead rusher, nothing in the passing game. You have Hollani, nothing in the run game, the primary pass catcher, Jardarian price mixed in there somewhere. He sells the highest ceiling of the group, but it's just not happening. You cannot start any of these running backs. He's lost a fumble in two or three games in the week one against nature to lost one as well. And I mentioned this. I said this on social yesterday, but the two big red flags for Jardarian price coming out of college. One, can you catch the ball? He had just six catches last year, but there was some way to excuse that. They had Jeremiah love on it, right? He fumbled way too much in college. And that is followed him to the NFL. And we know that NFL coaches have very little tolerance for fumbleitis. And I think the part that's really concerning for, I mean, there was already some indicators over concerning, including the Emanuel Wilson goal-to-go carrier. He was getting prior to this. But the thing that's most concerning to me is that like it's not like the sea ox are turning the keys over, handed the keys over to a good running back. Manual Wilson is just a plotter nine carriers for 14 yards and they're like, you know what? We got us to care because we just don't trust you are in price. There are teams where it's like, I don't know, the Patriots reminder, Steve is in bubbles. It's like, maybe you should be playing Travis Henderson anyways more, right? It's not like I they should be leaning on Emanuel Wilson. So that was my own thing to go off season George Hullani in Emanuel Wilson, this is the first round pick. There's like, what I saw after this game is I'm going to see if I have an open spot, like an open IR. I'm going to see if Zach Sorbin is available on. You might want to talk about him on waivers, well, keep an eye on his health. He's eligible to remote return after week four. So a week away. I want to be ahead of his place on a IR before week one is eligible after week four. So that's going to shake things up and we'll keep an eye on his health. But yeah, you're right. Once he comes back, Sorbin A has a good shot to take control there. Just wrapping this one up, JSN two touchdowns and all three games so far. The guy is unreal, 10 for a buck, 30 buck, 13, two scores in this one. I think we got there. I was trying to be clever with my word play there, but I just I'm laughing at the two touchdowns in every game. You could say you're laughing. I thought it was one, three, two, but whatever. Isn't it two? Is it two? I believe he is. Okay. Fair enough. Sorry. He's averaging two touchdowns per game for six total touchdowns, at least eight catches in every game. 120 yards in every game. Yeah. You know what's nice to see? Sometimes so when you have these quarterbacks that are protected by their defense and just have to not mess up and just they put up low numbers, but they win games. But sometimes they get an opportunity like Sam Darnell did yesterday where you're trailing. Yeah. We'll see how good you really are. And you know what? He did pretty darn awesome. They didn't win, but 31 to 45, 379, four touchdowns. He'd have two picks, but he at least some guys just can't do it, like he did it. He can step up when he has to throw the ball and when this or keep this team competitive at the very minimum, again, didn't come, didn't come up with it this time, but impressive coming off the injury. 11 passing touchdowns allowed by the commander so far this season. Three games. So, you know, the commanders like the Lions, you're playing against them. You got a chance to really put up some big numbers. You know who wasn't awesome on Sunday and hasn't been really, oh no. This one hurts. Drake May, guys, Drake May, three straight games with single digit fantasy points. I think even worse field than your Justin Herbert call is Drake May who we drafted as a top five quarterback has not even scored 10 fantasy points in a single game this year. I mean, maybe it's worse, but like Drake May actually showed us last year that he can be an elite fantasy player. I hear you. They're both disappointing. Drake May. I think I'm at the point, guys. Here we go. First three games of the season. I've been leaning on him. But this year, we talked about coming into the season. This is more of a two quarterback year than ever. It feels like with us, rostering a second quarterback, the way that they played, the way that we drafted, I'm out right now. When I get my week four rankings coming out, Drake May will not be ranked as a top 10 quarterback. So mean. Well, let's let's, uh, there's a tweet on the screen that was very funny. You guys should watch the YouTube feed in case you are not, uh, are you guys starting Drake May and week four? Are you okay? Absolutely not. No, absolutely. They're playing like there was the playing the bills up in ball. Oh, right, right, right. Obviously, two tough matchups to begin the season yesterday was supposed to be a not difficult matchup. Correct. Or at least in comparison to the C Hawks and the Steelers who are two legitimate defenses. There's nothing about the eye test. So yes, the Drake May should be your starting quarterback right now in fantasy. Now part of the appeal for Drake May is like, he's got elite rushing upside. He had a rushing touchdown that was called back because of penalty yesterday. He had four total carries though for 18 yards, another loss fumble on a loss fumble where the ball was just in his hand and it just slipped out right out. He had an awful, awful touchdown, turned into an interception. He threw it right to Travis Hunter. He looks completely shook. He does. He's a young player. I get it. He's a young player that he set for not just him, but those of us in fantasy football last year. Yeah, we're going to come down hard on you when you look this completely terrible. He has been awful. As a matter of fact, he was an MVP candidate last year. He nearly won the award. Like that's unbelievable that he nearly won MVP and this is the way that that guy is starting the first three games mind you. There's not a single pass catcher that I want to roster in this offense. They're not helping him out a whole lot, unfortunately though. I mean, that is some of the problem, although he was dealing with something similar last year. It's not like his supporting guest cast was great. I know the specialist leader, but I mean, yeah, Matt Collins was his feature target here. Nine targets six catches 87 yards. I mean, that's not ideal. I'll do respect to Matt Collins. He was not signed or acquired in any way to be the feature target for any offense in the NFL. Just more of a support player. So and not to mention, get nothing out of the run game either. I mean, that was a very major disappointment. So it's been tough going for sure. I will say last year, that was kind of his breakout game is coming out party. If you all against the bills, right early in the season when they upset them kind of started the trajectory forward, maybe he gets that go in this year, but it's it's hard to trust him right now. Fisher cut bait is going to come at some point during the also will be included. There is Drake. Just one last thing for me. I think you should expand the running back thoughts here in a minute. Drake made this is a sloppy staff from our great friend Kyle, sloppy the elite, the goat. There have been 91 instances in which a quarterback has thrown 20 or more passes in the game this season. That includes all three games from Drake, many of those 91 instances. He has the 74th most fantasy points, the 78th most fantasy points and the 90th most fantasy points, only James Winston filling in for Jackson, Darce last week was worth. So he's been terrible. There's no two ways about it. Yeah, it's not good. I don't love the running backs either. So Ramondra Steve is Mike confirmed stats. I, uh, the snaps. He had like a near two to one edge, right? 32 to 21. Okay. Not quite that dramatic. I had the snap. There was some, by the way, there was some garbage time in this too. Corey Kiner played and late in the game because they both team.
rest of the player. Well, certainly the Patriots did, but it's going to be the Ramondra Stevenson showed to begin the game. Travion Henderson had just one target. Like he is an explosive player. They have to find ways to get him the ball. They haven't done that. On the Jaguar or some important stuff here. Do you want to rifle through it, Mike? Rifle through. What do you want to look for? I can rifle through it if you don't mind. Was it you Daniel? It was. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Mike again, his heartbeat is racing for the second time in the show. Like, am I supposed to be doing this one? No, no, I mean, I can't. That's all right in front of me. I just didn't know where you wanted me to go. I'm bad. I totally lost my job. Let's talk a baby. Let's talk about the Jaguars though. Parker Washington down game, down game in which he disappoints and still scores 13 fantasy points. This kind of feels like the Ammon Ross St. Brown game, right? Where it's like, all right, this one is not great, but three for 40 in a touchdown. He's still the clear wide receiver one. Parker Washington is the new Ammon Ross St. Brown. Yeah. Parker Washington is what everyone wanted Luther burden to be right now. Parker Washington is crushing in this game. It was Jacobi Myers. He had eight targets. But here's the thing seven for 64 in a touchdown 19.4 fantasy points. Here's what he did the first two weeks. He had two targets in week one. He had one target in week two. This is a fixed me game. This was a, this was their trying to get Jacobi Myers involved. Jeff Darlington mentioned that I'm fantasy focus counter. Yeah, but yeah, but interesting though is there could be something there for the reason this reason only they tried to feature Brian Thomas early in the season. They did not in this one. Yeah. He was kind of phased out. Even Josh Cameron was kind of trading route with him. So I don't know what's going on with Brian Thomas, but it's not good. It is not good. What's going on with Basel Tutan? I think he's like a low on RB two guys. It's not sexy. It doesn't feel super fun, but he kind of keeps delivering back to back weeks with the touchdown 14.2 fantasy points last week against Denver. And then 17 fantasy points this week against the Patriots. It's going to be one asterisk in there. Yes. This was the Trevor Lawrence minutes ago. Yes. Trevor Lawrence takes his designed quarterback run left side of the field. Yeah. And he stops. He's he's got nothing but grass. He does. The end zone. Yes. And he takes a knee at the one yard line to take some or no particular reason. The game was out of hand. Yeah. He said after the fact though, he was like, dude, I was just looking out for the Basel Tutan fantasy managers. That's right. But some of us have Trevor Lawrence in their lineup. He's not about that part. The any time touchdown Trevor Lawrence ticket holders must have been a great. Oh, there's no reason to do that with eight minutes left. It doesn't matter. Like it's totally inconsequential to the result. But one of those things that it could matter. So agree that Tutan looked good yesterday. But that number could have probably should have been 10.9 fantasy points. And I mentioned that because even though this is two weeks in a row that he has looked nice next four weeks at Sinsi, which isn't much better defense than he used to be. Philadelphia, Houston, and then a buy. So it's just for the four weeks in a row. You got three tough matchups. And then you're not using them here in the fourth week. Yeah, it doesn't feel great. They're still using four running backs as well. Look when Alan's getting some passing down work. Now Mirab Dula's gets mixed in during he got some garbage. I'm carries, but they're mixing him in during the game as well. And of course, Chris Rodriguez scored a rushing touchdown in this one. So yeah, Tutan looks the part, but they have not given him the keys completely yet. And it's kind of going to limit his ceiling. That's the concern there. Travis Hunter with his first reception in this one. Yeah. Yes. He is just as many catch. He actually has more catches, more touchdown catches from Drake. May they just ever learn that's what I thought. Yeah, that's not great. All right. What's the next one? Let's get to the Vikings and the buck on years. Not a very fantasy notable game. I take that back. It's 49ers and Cardinals Mike. This is you. Oh, we are going down to 49ers. Cardinals. All right. Yeah, we are. Did we just skip ahead? We did a little bit. We'll get back. We got to get moving. We're, you know why? Because I object today. I couldn't I couldn't contain my excitement over Jeremiah. I love guys who is suddenly, can you believe this? Think about how slow he started. I texted you guys this last night. He started off really slow the first two weeks, which just getting a little bit of volume and then has the big game yesterday. Yep. He is in the top 15 among running backs and fantasy points for the season already, which is unreal. Did you know that 15 weight 15? He's 14th, I believe at the moment. Gotcha. So 52 snaps in this one to 30 over Tyler Algera. Big change at 21 carries for 90 yards. Also had five targets caught them all for 19 yards and a touchdown in this one. Tyler Algera, two carries four targets in this game. So they gave love the keys and he delivered the efficiency. It could be a little better. I mean, rushing efficiency was terrific, but we want to get more out of 26 such a. So good sign. He's back in the strong RB two conversation, maybe even back in RB one at this point. Michael Wilson got going in a big way. Marvin Harrison junior is over with three for 40, but Wilson's the guy here 11 catches 89 yards and a touchdown on 17 targets. That's the cardinal side. The nine or anything for a. Yeah. Can you drop Michael Wilson? Or can you drop not Michael? Can you drop Marvin Harrison junior? Yeah. You haven't already. I'm just saying like some people might be like, Hey, there's still the skill set there. He's that guy. If you want to keep him on the end of your bench, but he's nowhere near lineups right now. All right. I have dropped them for what it's worth. So have you. It's you can rock party who had zero of target passes through two games was saw probably I won in this game because he was 15 to 27, but 297 yards for touchdowns ran for 34 yards. The guy is a top five fantasy quarterback. He is outstanding. Depot Samuel with the probably the stat line of this season. It's over. It's done. Zero targets. Zero catches 80 yards in a touchdown on this one off the amazing don't know ladder. Yeah. It was a it was a past. It was a past of Mike Evans. He caught it. Latter old. It's a Debo. He goes around the edge and scores an ADR touchdown. So hilarious game from Debo gets it done. Did I have a couple carries as well on this one? I did want to put out a quick call to action. And if you did, in fact, by the time that you get done with the Monday night football, lose by one fantasy point. And you had Debo because you didn't get a reception. Please send us your box score because I just want to see if anyone lost because Debo didn't get a reception on that. I want to see an ad Lawrence and you are facing two and their vice versa. Oh, that would have been a good one too. That's another map. That's this is part of points. Think of the week. That's right. George Kittle all the way back. Six Brady to and two touchdowns. Yes. So back. Started the week. It tied in for me. Thank you, Purdy and Kittle. And by the way, we have to monitor this one. Mike Evans did, we just mentioned him. He got hurt in this one. He had three for 34 and a touchdown, 12 routes, but left the game very possible. There's mistime here. We're going to monitor this. Maybe maybe not. We're going to find out the next couple of days, but the injury bug just continues to get the 49ers and it could be Evans. Next question about it. Doesn't feel good. Next game is Vikings Buccaneers. The Vikings approved a three and oh, the Bucks fall to 0 and three. The biggest storyline of this one. I think pretty clearly is the injury bug, right? Yeah. So Justin Jefferson leaves this game. Uncle, they said that he was close to coming back, but he didn't come back. So Justin Jefferson leaves without much to show for it. Jordan Addison stepped into a bigger role. Five for 90 and a touchdown there. So Jefferson does mistime when they play the dolphins next week. Pretty good opportunity for Jordan Addison to sort of merge into that top 20 ish running back range. Aaron Jones in this game, 15 carries for 56 yards. So fewer carries in last week, but 82% of the snaps though. And he had six targets. Good for five catches and 34 yards. He's right there hovering around that low end RB two range. If there is no, well, there won't be Jordan Mason next week as he got two more weeks on IR. Not much from the Vikings though. Tyler Murray, not quite not even closer to the declare him as a fantasy starter. He would be next to him for 29. Yeah. Good opportunity versus Miami. But does not look like the guy that we saw in Arizona for many years and just two rushes for 17. Yeah. That's right. I will say this. What do we want from him this year? We wanted one thing. Justin Jefferson. What did you do? Two routes for Jefferson in this game. Two targets, two catches. So at least while he was healthy, he was getting the ball on his hands. But yeah, obviously, we need to monitor Jefferson. So the bucks also hit the injury bug yesterday as Baker may feel left this game late. He had a dislocated throwing thumb. Doesn't sound good for a week or Bucky Irving got banged up late as well. Don't know a lot about this one, but don't be surprised if it's the Kenny Game will show with some Sean Tucker mixed in next week. The bucks are a real life disappointment. Oh and three, even there's still a game back in that terrible division. They plan because they're a major fantasy disappointment as well. A mecca, a book out as a three straight games that weren't so bad that we've been talking about him more, but they have not been good enough for us to give a bunch of shine. Right. Correct. Five for 62 on nine targets. You like the targets. Nine out of Baker may feels 34 passing attempts going his way. Dissa pointing. Nobody in this past catching group has really emerged. They've been spreading things around way too much. This bucks offense like the rest of their team. Very disappointing. Yeah. Nothing more to add there. Buka will be the highest ranked once again. He'll probably still be in that top 30, but by the way, I think Taylor McMillan, I don't I don't know if he's not a hundred percent, but or he just lost the job to Ted hers because he has not. He had one route in this game. He's not terrible factor. If you've been stashing him on the end of your bench, I am kind of loose. I have dropped him a bunch, unfortunately. Let's talk about Ravens and Cowboys. What a fun game, guys. Not for Cowboys. Well, it doesn't. Well, I'm just saying for the people in Brazil that were there to watch us. It was a blast. That didn't play great, but 18.9 fantasy points. Guys, I can't complain about 18.9 fantasy points. Feel that that hits my level. That hits my line. I it's I wanted a little bit more, but I'm okay with that CD certified. Good at football. Yeah, eight targets nine catches 112 yards for 20 point two fantasy points, plus a two point conversion. He has at least 15 fantasy points and all three games to start the season. He's been awesome. George Pickens 11 target. Told you. Yeah, let the team do this. It could have been a whole lot more, right? Because there was that play late in the game. We're some people thought he's that should have hit George Pickens for a wide open touch wide open. It was really good to see that volume seven for 82 15.2 fantasy points. Javante also went off 19 for 98 and a touchdown plus two catches for five yards 18.3. Fantasy points. He's also got 14 or more points in all three games to start the season. The Cowboys are more of a summary that
analysis team, right? It's like, here's what they did. They are the same as they are each in every week. Yeah, but Daniel wrote his notes. I have zero questions about the Cowboys offense. They are who we thought they were. That's basically exactly what Field said. All right, moving on. That's it. On the other side, Derek Henry says efficiency be damned. I'm going to find the end zone. 26 carries. He turned that into 89 Russian yards. That's poor. That's really poor, but two touchdowns and a catch 21.9 fantasy points. That's all that matters at the end of the day. Lamar with a nice, nice bounce back after a 14 point outing in week two, 20.4 here in week three, only 186 passing yards, but two touchdowns, 50 yards on the ground, because that's what Lamar does. And then Zay flowers decided to give it a go. Yeah, barely played 15 routes. 15 routes turned that into five catches for 83 yards plus a rush for 20 yards. 15.4 fantasy points. By the way, we talk about how there's only one wide receiver that can be supported in this offense. Bateman back to the bench, two catches for 37 yards. Again, I have zero questions about this offense. The Ravens are who we thought they were. Cowboys and the Ravens look at each other in a lot of ways. All right, Raider Saints next one. This is a fun game. He's back. Brock Bowers is healthy and he was not limited. He ran 34 routes in this game. That was more pass attempts than Kirk cousins had in this game, which was 33 13 targets, 10 catches, 116 yards and a touchdown. He is at worst, tied into and fantasy, originally, tied in one over Tremac bride. It's a close call. As we thought it would be coming into the season, that's the, that's pretty much it. I mean, Ashen Chentee was fine, right? Like he, he got his volume. He had 22 touches in this game. 93 yards. He's fine. You're not touching any of the wide receivers in this offense. You're not starting Kirk cousins, even though he threw three touchdowns because he's a non factor with his leg. So that's it for the Raiders. We don't really have to get into anything else. The Saints side Tyler Schuck, we ranked him high this, this past week and they may have lost, but he did the job. He threw four more touchdowns in this game. Interestingly, all of them to tight ends for some reason, which is annoying, but Johan Johnson had two of them eight targets, eight catches, 53 yards, very much in the tight end one conversation, at least until Jordan Tyson comes back. Saints backfield, we have to check in on this one. It looked like we were trained. I think you texted about this. It seemed like we were trending somewhere early in this game. Travis H Ann played 64% of the snaps until he got hurt in the third quarter. He had 13 carries for 57 yards. He had two targets caught them both for 13 yards. Then he has the hamstring injury. This one could linger for a couple of weeks. So we're going to talk about this more when we get an update. Hopefully later today and then on waivers tomorrow, after he left, this is the notable Alvin Camara 14 snaps. CJ Donaldson seven snaps and Kendra Miller nine. So probably hit me a situation to avoid. Kendra Miller was not a factor before the injury. He played all his snaps afterward. And there was really nothing. I mean, it was a three-headed committee. And that's probably what going to be what they do if H Ann is out. So this remains a situation to avoid. It was simultaneously good to see them find religion in the backfield, like play the guy that you sell this money on, but then obviously not good when he gets hurt. The only thing I want to add about one of the sneaky values of Tyler Schuck, just very quickly is and this is only further reinforced with Travis HN unavailable potentially for next week. They play Monday night against Atlanta. They can't run the ball in short yardage situations. So Schuck had touchdowns of like the two yard variety. I think John Johnson went five for 35 for two touchdowns. Like it's all short yardage stuff. And Tyler Schuck can get some goal line work himself for 53 on two touchdowns for John Johnson, but no a fan for for 33 for two touchdowns. Yeah, we're not going to touch him. He's still a two. He'll hit touch for a touchdown here there. It's all I mic is sick. He very similar dynamic there. You're not going to start him. I don't know. Third in jaw, but third in jaw on were considered fine. Yeah, I said tidy on one. Okay. Okay. Not, not famed. Rams Broncos got the craziest game of the night. Definitely the craziest games of the night. Nothing at halftime. The ram was probably professional outfit in the first half. And then the Broncos come back and win 30 to 26 in a game where it scored 32nd half points. And Bonaix only throws for 180 six yards. Like I don't know how the Broncos grind these winds out, but they are very, very good. Maybe a questionable DPI penalty late in the game. I think it was more the Rams snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. That could be in that one. The Rams in a lot of ways are pretty cut and dry with one notable exception. Matthew Stafford, 21 fantasy points, borderline QB one. Yeah. Cairo Williams, 21.8. He's awesome. He is still the guy in the backfield. Devante Adams was ridiculous against Pat Sertan. 13 targets. That's huge. Seven catches 137 yards. That's a huge knife for Devante. It gets an awesome defense. Not a momfield. Mike's guy did have a long touchdown catch last night. I don't know that I Puka could be back as soon as next week, even if Puka's out though I'd have a hard time against the Eagles, by the way, feeling like anybody besides Devante Adams amongst the wide receiver should be started. Agreed. But this is where it gets confusing for the Rams. Is it just spin the wheel of tight ends? Yes. Each week is going to land on somebody different because week one was Colby Parkinson. Week two was Terrence Ferguson. Week three, they were, they actually opened the game with a past of Davis Allen. I think he had two catches on the first drive. Maybe it was just one catch, but anyways for the game, yeah, two for the game. Tyler hit me was prominently involved in part because Tyler Terrence Ferguson got hurt. Yeah, he returned, but it was not. He didn't. It was not himself, but also Colby Parkinson was questionable. All week to him was obviously limited too. I think he left the game for a while too. So when you have four tight ends, you might have zero. Yes. Five. If you have four, you might have zero and they have five. So I don't know that I can trust a Rams tight end, even if there is a good chance that Matthew Stafford is going to throw like 15 or 20 passes to tight ends throughout the course of the game. For the Broncos backfield, stay in the way. Oh, he's agreement there. No, no. I mean, Robins getting all the carries. Coleman's out. But today's ceiling passing down work. He's like their look when Alan, it's just yeah. And by the way, on IR. So Jonah Coleman missed four games, three more after last night. Wide receivers on their down night for Jalen. I'm on. And what are we doing? We're going to get to five point eight fantasy points. But another one that you're like, are we going to have to ride the roller coaster all year? Pat Brian had a touchdown catch last night. Bo was a good player for fantasy, 24.14 fantasy points last night. Four carries for seven yards in a touchdown. They have a good matchup next weekend. San Francisco. Yep. Still not there. Totally on bone. Yep. I'm still a few more solid performances away. It hasn't look. He hasn't had a solid performance yet. It needs to like, it needs to not just be good in the box score. Correct. But good in real life because the difference between him and Blake Bordles, like back in the day when it was bordling was it was like they were a bad team. They were just garbage. It should could be percent what he did yesterday. Right. The Broncos are a good team. Like they're going to win a lot of games this year. I need to see it from Bo more before I trust him. 100% with you on that one. And it's just a point about you're probably still trusting Jalen Waddle. It's just this was this is going to be I don't know, man. Maybe we'll have to talk. We'll look at it. We'll look at our Wednesday when we're going through our rankings. Let's talk Panthers and Browns. Yeah. This one can be pretty quick, but the Browns get it done at home. Harold Fanon, seven for 51 and two touchdowns on nine targets back in the tight M1 conversation. He is a good connection with Watson. Obviously, and also we can't trust the receiver. So it should run through Fanon. We had a disappearing act here from Denzel Boston. They're still trying to feature KC Concepts, the own targets. Yeah, he has a 20 targets for 80 yards of season. It's just not happening yet. And Watson just missed him so many times yesterday. I expected more from Quenchon Judkins. The volume was there 18 for 70 on the ground, which is fine. Only two for nine yards through the air. He's just not cementing himself as a tight or running back one. It's a problem right now. Jalen Coker left his game injured. That's a problem here. Two for 18 early in that one. Bryson Germain stepped in and had four for 83, but we're not going to trust him as a starter. Keep in mind, Xavier LeGett was out as well for this one. He will be a chalky DFS name that will Bryson remain. Yeah, we'll see what his price point looks like. But hopefully Jalen Coker is ready to go. But considering he was questionable and left his game, you have to plan otherwise. For now, Bryson backed Earth and this one 272 yards of touchdown and interception. His what he thought, you know, he's going to be a mid to back in quarterback to most likely. He almost stole my line. What? He is what he thought they were. He'll be ranked very high. Yes, he will. Yes, he will match up. And then hopefully he'll bring Teteron Macmillan back with him because he had a dud in this one in Cleveland two for 17 on five targets. No Jonathan Brooks meant AJ Dylan replaced him. And that's basically what happened because Chuba Hubbard out snapped him 62 to 12 in this one. 19 for 82 on the ground for Hubbard also had four catches for 28 yards. He's a front end RB two. Chuba also helped some of us win a red zone question yesterday, that 19th carry. It was 18 or more carries yesterday for two was that was my that was my prop that it was a prop that it was 18 and a half. And he had 19 and a happy. I did get to Josh Allen under but missed on on Hubbard. So yeah, because Josh was eight carries. Yes. Yes. I did mention really quickly that the you're starting all the quarterbacks every quarterbacks score at least 23 fantasy points. You do the top pass catchers against the lines this year. Crystal live a score 28. The Vaughan Velae had 19.9 Dalton concade at 22. Garrett Wilson at 26. Kenyan Cedeek had 23.5. This is a Teteron Macmillan stat right here. Teteron Macmillan or are we throwing a dart at Darren Waller with the way that tight ends tight ends have scored at least 15 fantasy points against the Detroit lines. He keeps scoring touchdowns right now. So anyways, let's talk about the next one Titans and Giants. This one can be quick. Holy smokes. This game was bad guys. The rain absolutely 100% to factor. But it was just disgusting in general. No Jackson Dart. James Winston didn't look like the old James. He just looks old. James Winston just looked like an old quarterback. He's not the we were excited when it's like the backup quarterback is famous. James.
guy that's going to elevate all of our fantasy guys, I don't think that we have that guy anymore. Yeah, tough conditions here, but we'll see maybe in better circumstances, yeah. But I really thought even with the tough conditions, I was going to see something different. The first game when he came in, it was like, oh, he just didn't look like he was fully prepared. Still didn't really look fully prepared in this one when I was watching the game. But Malik neighbors, I think, has a limited ceiling for the time being with James until we see something else right now. It's just you can't bench him, but he is not the wide receiver one that you were hoping he was going to be if you decided to take a shot on him in the third round. 20 carries for 60 yards, three catches for 40 yards, only 13 fantasy points has yet to hit 15 fantasy points in a game this season. Luckily, next two games, maybe can do that against Arizona and Washington. So two defenses that you could potentially take advantage of, but Cam has not looked great. Then we get Isaiah likely two years in a row, by the way, where we had a huge week one, and then he just disappears for the rest of the season. Or is this a quarterback situation and we should be holding tight based on the skill set of Isaiah likely. 10 targets in week two and the weather was awful. Yes. Yeah. I'm going to excuse it. I agree. Agreed. All right. For the other side, Tony Pollard, more points in week three than both of us. First two weeks combined, a whopping 13.6 here this week against the Giants just doesn't feel great. Wandel Robinson had a big game, 18.7. Carnell Tate had another nice game, 11.8, best game by all of the Titans across the board. But I'm still not going to play any of them because they're next two weeks. They have, they are at Baltimore and then take on the Houston Texans. So it was great. If you happen to rely on them this week, I'm just not using it for going forward here. It was not good. Love the nine targets for tape, but it hasn't turned into much yet. Yeah. And it was a slow start. He did a lot of this in the second F. Let's preview this Monday night football game. Michaels Philadelphia Eagles taking on the Chicago Bears. That is what the weather's going to look like right there. It was supposed to be nice. It was beautiful tonight. Is it? Yeah. Like 70 and sunny. Oh, that would be great. So this is Chicago, so different part of the I would love seven and sunny here. Yeah. How do you guys feel about this bears offense knowing that case keen? I'm going to get the start tonight better than with Tyson Beijing. I said that last week. I guess there's no winter. I'm still surprised by that. Yeah. I think it's just going to distribute it. I don't have a lot of optimism. But Colston Lovlin was still inside my top 12 for Titans, Roman Dunesay and Luther Burton are outs would have been outside my top 30 for this week. Yeah. This is a tricky one. Your line is probably set. Right. So yeah, temper expectations with no Kayla, but it already wasn't good with Caleb. That's kind of was our analysis and we'll see how this goes. Hopefully you can get the ball in their hands. On the other side, Eagles, is there anybody from the Eagles? It's just not an obvious start. We're playing Jalen Hertz. Playing Devante Smith. Playing Sequan Barkley. Sequan off the injury report entirely. He's good to go. Hopefully that Stinger does not recur. But this is like we need to see more from Sequan here. Yeah. You know, also we're going to see tonight. Zach Hertz. It's reported Lee will be activated for this game as a return to the Eagles. That'll be fun to see. No Dallas. Yeah. That's the situation where I had to replace Dallas Goddard and I was sort of going back and forth between a run to get in the second and Zach Hertz. The problem was waivers are running. You're like, you don't know if Zach Hertz is going to be the act. Correct. That's the thing. No, a fan then. Naturally, I picked a run to get. This was a great tight end week, to be honest, like tight end, tight end 10 or 14.9 fantasy points. There's some strategy to that. I think across the league as we saw, to all the combined invites, all the tight ends drafted. I mean, that's been a trend, more 13 personnel. I'm going to go on a limb here and take the Eagles with case key num starting at the quarterback field where you go on the edge and not picking up the bears, they're taking the bears. Yeah, bears. I went on an island and like a handful of games this week. I think I went over. So maybe I snapped the streak today. Well, if they win, it's probably going to be because they, they're, look, we know they're going to try to run the ball. Yep. And if they do it successfully, they could win this game like they did last year when they just swift them. A non-guy, both had a huge game in that matchup with the Eagles. 270 yards. Yeah. They're strategy here. You know that without Caleb, you know, if you guys need any Monday night miracles and any of your matchups, I'm beating you by like 101 league playing. So I'm good. Really? My team, my FFC team is so bad. And I had like the game of the year first. Yes. You've really watched it. Everyone went off. Yeah. Our guys Zach needs 21 from Jalen Hertz. Okay. I think that's possible. That's doable. That's possible. Yeah. We'll see how that one works. Yeah. I said before the show, this is a good week for the brand. The team is bad for the guys I liked a lot. Week three was great for the guys I liked. So my team's naturally had a good week, but I'm excited to go the other direction because that's fantasy football. That is fantasy football. Excited to be able to come back and do this tomorrow with you guys. We'll talk about the Monday football game then as well as some waivers. Don't forget to love each other and be kind to yourself. We love you guys. Thank you for hanging out with us. We'll see you when you come back on Tuesday. We'll see you in fantasy football guys. Imagine setting your makeup then forgetting it's even there.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The Chargers are struggling with poor performance, especially Justin Herbert, who underperformed, and key players like James Cook and Ronda Gaston are non-viable options.
The Jets showed offensive potential with Garrett Wilson’s breakout game, though their defense remains a major fantasy liability.
The Steelers had a strong offensive showing with Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase, while Chase Brown underperformed, highlighting inconsistency in their receiving corps.
The Chiefs featured Rishi Rice, who returned to play with increased volume and production, showing signs of a promising turnaround.
The Colts are struggling with limited production from wide receivers and running backs, with Daniel Jones showing flashes of form but lacking consistency.
The Dolphins faced a major setback with Devon H.N. suffering a torn ACL, creating a deep running back void and raising concerns about depth.
The Jaguars saw strong performances from Parker Washington and Basel Tutan, though inconsistent support and poor quarterback play limit ceiling potential.
The 49ers delivered a strong performance with Purdy and George Kittle, but injuries to key players like Mike Evans and Justin Jefferson add significant uncertainty.
Summary:
The fantasy football landscape in Week 3 is marked by significant inconsistencies and injuries. The Chargers continue to falter, with Justin Herbert below expectations and key running backs like James Cook and Ronda Gaston failing to deliver, pushing them into a deep defensive and offensive slump. The Jets had a breakout from Garrett Wilson, but their offense remains overshadowed by a weak defense.
The Steelers showed strong offensive cohesion with Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase, though Chase Brown struggled, reinforcing the need for depth. The Chiefs saw promising returns from Rishi Rice, who regained a role with volume and production, while the Colts remain a weak point due to low target shares and inconsistent performance from their wide receivers and running backs. , creating a serious running back shortage and raising concerns about roster depth.
The Jaguars delivered strong individual performances from Parker Washington and Basel Tutan, but lack of quarterback support and inconsistent game planning limit ceiling. The 49ers showed flashes of strength with Purdy and George Kittle, but injuries to key players like Mike Evans and Justin Jefferson add uncertainty. Overall, fantasy managers are left balancing high-risk, high-reward matchups with injury concerns and inconsistent team performances, especially in backfield depth.
The week underscores the importance of depth planning, injury awareness, and situational awareness when building rosters.
FAQs
James Cook has been consistent in the rushing game, with 154 rushing yards and third in the NFL in rushing yards through three games. His involvement in the run game, especially with 26 pass attempts and 17 targets from Josh Allen, shows he remains a productive option.
Justin Herbert has struggled, posting under 13 fantasy points, and the team lacks reliable tight end options. The offense is in disarray, with Ronda Gaston and others seeing minimal production, making the Chargers a risky fantasy choice.
Jumir Gibbs has been dominant, with 20 carries for 99 yards, two touchdowns, and eight targets in the passing game. His performance has made him a top-tier fantasy option and a standout in the league.
The Jets showed strong offensive potential, especially with Garrett Wilson's 13 targets, 10 catches, and a touchdown. However, their offensive success may be limited by a weak fantasy defense, which could hinder consistent performance.
Geno Smith is a potential streaming option due to the matchup against the Lions, but the team has allowed a high number of fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks. His performance may be inconsistent, making him a risky pick.
Devon H&N’s torn ACL injury has left the Dolphins’ running back room thin, potentially impacting offensive balance. The team may rely on backup running backs like Jarquist Hunter, though their performance remains uncertain.
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