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Week 6 Fantasy Rankings: Biggest Movers at Every Position | Fantasy Focus

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Week 6 Fantasy Rankings: Biggest Movers at Every Position | Fantasy Focus

The Fantasy Focus episode provides a detailed Week 6 fantasy football rankings breakdown, focusing on quarterback, running back, and wide receiver matchups. Lamar Jackson and Bryce Young are highlighted as top-tier starters, with Young gaining traction due to strong passing stats and a tough matchup against the Eagles. The Patriots’ injury to Travion Henderson creates a clear opportunity for running back Ramondra to rise into the top 10, as the team lacks pass-catching depth. Jalen Hurts is viewed as a fringe option due to inconsistent performance and limited volume, while Cam Skataboo is seen as high-risk due to poor stats and a difficult Saints matchup. Tony Pollard is considered a viable RB2 pick in a week with multiple injuries and favorable matchups. Michael Wilson is reevaluated as a legitimate WR with volume and a chance in garbage time, though defensive schemes limit his upside. Tight ends like Pat Freiermuth and Dallas Goddard are stable top-end options, while Colson Loveland is seen as a potential streamer if Caleb Williams starts. The hosts stress that this season’s fantasy football is highly volatile due to injuries, inconsistent players, and the need for flexible, dynamic weekly adjustments. The episode also includes lighthearted moments on singing, personal anecdotes, and fan engagement, reinforcing the show’s blend of serious analysis and camaraderie. Overall, the discussion underscores the importance of matchup awareness, injury management, and player volatility in modern fantasy football.

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♪ Fantasy you and the oh six oh one oh ♪ ♪ Focus, fantasy, fantasy, focus ♪ - What up friends, welcome into Fantasy Focus. Football with Mike Clay and Field Jates. My name is Daniel Dopp, the boys are back in town. - The boys. - Oh, guess what, yes. - We can't sing it, but if we could field, you have the dulcetones to make it happen. I wanna do karaoke with you sometime. - Oh, field is out yesterday. - I knew your hair was different, but I-- - Wow. - Thanks for nosing, Mike. - Wow. - I gotta say, I actually might have the worst singing voice in America. - No. - Oh, no. - No, no. - No, I'm a contender for that. - Are you? - Wait, we're setting something up here, we don't want to. - I know, that's the good point. - Put it in the video, baby. - The problem is legitimately, we have a cop, it's like a copyright issue. We're like on platforms at ESPN, whether they're television, digital, et cetera. Like you cannot sing, you're subject to a massive fine right now. And a person, an artist, or a licensed or distributor has the right to come after you. So we always err on the side of caution. That's why when you hear happy birthday played on ESPN, it's like this kind of quirky version of happy birthday. There's not a lot to use that now. I thought it changed. - That one might be public, I mean, I'm not sure. - That's what I'm saying, happy birthday is available, but it's this quirky version that does not sound like if the three of us were just saying happy birthday to somebody today. ♪ Well today on the show we're doing week six rankings ♪ ♪ Maybe some random rankings, a fantasy face off ♪ - That was really good. - That's great. - I mean, that's not surprising. - You have a good voice. - Oh, please, please. - I wonder if people that have a good voice are naturally drawn towards music more. - I mean, you're right. - I think eventually you're like a singing in the car and you're like, oh, this is fun. I like doing this. - Okay. - As long as you're comfortable to do it in front of other people. Not everyone's comfortable in front of other people. - Yeah, I mean, I listen to music all the time and love music. I just don't talk about it like you do, but I can't sing at all. - My curls are like stopping. - But I wouldn't hate the end of songs, right? Is that like, if you are a great gifted singer, the odds of you also being a passionate music fan are probably very high. - Yes. - Yeah. - Anyways, let's talk about football. - Let's talk about football. Shout out to our friends over at TrophySmack. Use the promo code trophyweek6 over at trophysmack.com. You get 10% off your order. Grab your league, a belt or a trophy or a chain or anything like that. Hopefully someone there has Lamar Jackson in your league because it sounds Michael, like we got some good news on this guy. - Yeah, sounds like he should be good to go for this week. No shock as he was borderline last week, so not surprised he's gonna go in this one. And what's fun about situations like this is, it's pretty straightforward. You're starting Lamar Jackson. You're starting Derek Henry. You're starting Zay Flowers and you're not starting any other pass catchers other than maybe Mark Andrews, but at best he's a borderline starter. He's the only one that there's any question about, but it's very straightforward for this offense, which is nice and fantasy. - Love that. - Can I pose a question to you, Mike, that I asked, we discussed it with Daniel Liz on Monday. Josh Allen one, rest of season. Not, not, you know, based on what we've seen so far. Rest of season, who is your quarterback, too? I'd have to think about it a little more. I think that, oh yeah. It's certainly Lamar Jackson is on that list. I would say Brock Purtey, right there as well. Drake Mayn. Drake Mayn's back in the conversation. He makes me a little nervous because look, he had the really bad start and then he had lighter opponents and did well, but now it's back to a tougher one this week. So we'll see how he does. - I hear you. - Yeah. - I wouldn't see him in the same category. - My point is, I'm not going to take him to right now. I would take those guys first. So I don't consider him a real threat for that spot. And or Jaden Daniels, I want to see more, like he isn't thrown for 200 yards in a game and over a year, a calendar year. And obviously he was hurt, but still, it's been a long time since we've seen a big deal. - You know what, though, that it all makes sense now. Tell me, he threw for 199 last week, right? - Yes. - That final play. He was trying to get over 200 passing yards. So rather than taking the knee, instead of a field goal, that's like, hold on. - That's it. - I got to get back over 200. We finally cracked the code. You're welcome to ball fans in America. You don't want me to say that's that, but too bad. - Speaking of cracking the code field, you never want to celebrate an injury, but it feels like we have cracked the code of the Patriots back field right now. - Yeah. - Draven Henderson's going to miss multiple weeks according to Adam Schefter. No surgery needed. And the team believes are the team feels that he is a quick healer. So I would say that that's scientific. - Two plus, right? All we know is two plus right now for Travion Henderson, worth noting the Patriots play not just on Sunday, but also on Thursday to play next Thursday and against the bear. So it feels like you'll have at least a two game window where there will be no Travion Henderson. We have seen the Patriots without Henderson once already this year. It was week one against Seattle. And while if this were to be a six week injury for Travion Henderson, I think the Patriots would probably lean on Ramondra, Steven's a little bit differently. If they forecasted to be more like a two week absence, you could expect Ramondra, Steven, to be amongst the busiest running backs on the NFL for the next couple of games. We saw this in week one, as I mentioned, against Seattle on that Wednesday night. And he wasn't efficient. It wasn't pretty. By the end of the month, I think with like 14 fantasy points, got five catches in the game as well. Yeah. So Ramondra very much in that RB 10 to 12 range for week six and probably week seven as well. Jets and then the bears for the Patriots. He's been good the last two weeks as well as a touchdown on both games, 17 plus fantasy points. And that was with Henderson involved. I know Henderson left last week, but he had played he played 28 snaps. So he was involved in that game. So yeah, I'm with you. He's a very much a lineup lock in the RB 1 mix. And by the way, the Patriots are super limited right now at pass catcher. So you know, Ramondra, they not that he is this dynamic explosive weapon, but he's a trusted weapon right now in the Patriots need as many trusted players on offense as they can get. Yes. All right, let's talk about starts of the week really quickly. Before we dive into our rankings, we feel Jury gone yesterday. Mike, you're gone on Mondays. I thought that until I did, but I was exact part of the a push. Nope. That's not how it works. We're going to look at Mike Clay's lineup. First Mike. Give us your line from this last. Oh, crushed it. It's going to be per set. 25 points. Aaron Jones 18 points. Devont Adams. 22 points. Sam Laporta 19 points. That's cool. 85.88. That would have beat some full rosters. Last of you. That was a really good squad right there. My lineup for starts of the week last week. Also not terrible. Oh, really good. There. Off 28.9 Deandre Swift 17.3 Malik neighbors 29.1. And Micah Sikki didn't do a lot, but he did find the end zone, 7.4 fantasy points total of 82.74 for me, which means we're down to fields line up for the starts of the week last week. Oh no. So great. My friends is Jordan Love helped me out. 25.28. And John Judkins just ate Michael Wilson, 7.28. Talk about him during the rankings chat today. And Johan Johnson was 5.6 for a measly 46.16 fantasy point that means I have subject to spinning the wheel. That's right. I've got two losses this year. Field. You've got two losses this year. Mike's got one loss of field. Let's see what you're undefeated. I never lost in my first punishment. You guys may recall was you guys are to do it with me. I don't do that again. I think that's been taken off the board. Right? Yes, it has been I believe. Right. All right. Good. All right. Here we go. And we get camera shots. Set. I'm going to be where feels like he's suit all right, maybe I get to your own suit. At least you know. It fits you. That's how it does. Yeah. Sort of does. Yeah. All right. When you wear it. We got to pull it down out of the attic. Did you already pull it out of the attic in order to get it dry clean. Well, actually, I haven't I do have an attic. It is just for installation. So it's actually it's it's in my closet because my kids think it's hilarious. So and I put it on every once in a while. But if I leave it in my it were my two older daughters sleep then they'll just pull it out every single night. I would love to see you around the house in a bucky suit with your daughters wearing princess dresses while you guys do dinner with chicken nuggets and mac and cheese. Somewhere like I would say about every six weeks one of my daughters will come downstairs in a cow costumes because they previously worn it for Halloween. Yeah. Like what are you doing? They're like, I want to wear my cow costume. I want to wear it. You know, last thing on the on Halloween and kids is my my my daughters are very into K-pop demon hunters. Yes. Very popular. Obviously dramatic huge hit for Netflix. And we had to buy our Halloween costumes early because they really wanted to get K-pop demon hunters. Yes. The rule was though, you can't use all of the accessories until Halloween. There's like some sticker. I think they're like basically fake tattoos that they want to wear every night though. My almost five year old puts on a show and she puts on her her costume minus those stickers and and God bless those stickers because they make it all the way to Halloween. It'll be a miracle. Yeah. Let's go though. Get some more use out of it then like one day. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. He's got a costume. I think I spelled on. I'm in. I know. I know. I'm going this weekend. Sounds like another thing for the punishment wheel. Someone gets dressed up and does a show for everybody. Yeah. I actually. My daughter really wants to come into the show one day. I have no idea. She had hang out for a hour, but she really wants to figure it out. I think that'll be fun. All right. Let's dive into our week six rankings. My friend. She actually just wants to come in because she can get her makeup done. That's fair. And there too. I like how you're just a few years behind me. I know. I know. I went through all this. You're my safe. My sense. All right. Looking at the quarterback situations here. We got one through 10 on the board. Jordan Love falls in at number four. QB eight on the season. The fantasy points last week. What we love about this screen, taking on the Dallas Cowboys. My friend. Great match up here. Looking at quarterbacks 11 through 20 in this full screen. Aaron Rogers checks in as quarterbacks 17 in spite of the fact that he's got three plus passing touchdowns and three straight games going up against Tampa Bay does not come inside of our top 12 this week. We do have a couple of quarterbacks. We want to dive into though field coming off a buy. It had been a minute since we'd seen Bryce Young. We went into the buy feeling pretty good about him. How are you feeling coming out of the buy? I wanted to bring Bryce Young up, not just because he's inside our top 10, but we did talk about Bryce or sort of the fantasy industry did a few weeks ago when it felt like, all right, you've got an opportunity to lean into Bryce Young. It was against Cleveland in that matchup. And Bryce, frankly, disappointed. Bryce was not good in that particular spot. But for this season, he has actually, he's been awesome in his four total games. He leads the NFL in passing yards per game. He's third in total drop, he's third in drop backs per game. Excuse me. Third in attempts. Fourth in passing touchdowns. Fourth, these are all per games. Excuse me. Fourth in fantasy points per game amongst quarterback. He has three top 10 finishes in his four weeks. Awesome. So I think that there should be more trust in Bryce than maybe you felt when you tried him against the Browns that one week and either not perform with the expectation. The other thing that I wanted to bring up here is that we are now far enough into this season where we can really adjust our priors from last year. Some teams like the Cowboys are still awful on defense. And some teams are not as good on defense as they were last year. And the Eagles, it's not like they lost a ton of players this off season, right? Couple guys for sure. But like, you know, Rick Willem was signed this off season. And this defense has helped them stay in games more so than the offense has this year. But it's just not as daunting of a matchup as it was. When last year, they allowed the eighth fewest fantasy points per game. And just four quarterbacks reached 20 against Philadelphia all of last year. This season, their 11th most fantasy points allowed per game. And they've already had three quarterbacks get to 20 fantasy points in five games. So the Eagles on paper feel like a scary defense. They certainly felt like a scary defense coming into the season, not as daunted by it for Bryce Young. He's quarterback nine for me this week. Yeah, this will be an interesting test for the Eagles because they hung on really good defensively against the Rams and Jags to really good offenses until late in those games. They blew both of them. So now you don't expect this offense to be quite as good. We'll see if the Eagles can put 60 minutes together. I will say this. We mentioned this yesterday. Bryce Young goes from the fourth easiest to the hardest remaining schedule based on what we've seen through five weeks. Small sample obviously, but the schedule does get much tougher for him. Guys, I want to talk about Kirk cousins. You like that. I don't know if I like that most weeks, but maybe I do like that this week. This is a rare opportunity with four teams on a buy and a good match up to potentially stream him. I will say the risk here. I'll get into more on this in a second, but or more on, you know, why we like him this week. The risk though is if he comes out and struggles, do they just, you know, pull random endos and go to front end of Mendoza? That's going to be a risk every single week. I think he's probably safe in this one. Yeah, I don't think it's happening this week. I don't think so. I don't think it's happening this week, either unless he's really struggling or they're getting blown out by Buffalo, which they were blown out by New England last week. But cousins six in fantasy points. So far, this is 11, 11 points, 11, 11th in points per game. Last week was easily as worst outing, but he had 20 plus fantasy points in his prior three games last week. You didn't even like kill you last week. 13.7, which isn't going to devastate your week. Second and passing touchdown. So far, this season, eighth and passing yards. He's been a negative as a rusher. That's not going anywhere. And that's one of the reasons it's hard to rank him much higher. And they've had a pretty hard schedule. So far, I have them with the fifth hardest schedule. He hasn't played a defense higher than 10th in quarterbacks and fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks until this week. They're playing the bills. Second most shards and fourth most fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks. Fourth worst EPA against the past. So this is an opportunity for cousins to maybe hit 20 points again and be a viable streamer. I like it. Yeah. And by the way, they can't run the ball. Nope. They cannot run the ball. We've talked about that with Ash and Gen T several times as a result. That's leading to, I don't know about more passing. I have to look, look at this closer to see whether they are actually super high amongst passing attempts because they can't run the ball or because of some recent game script to shoot out game against Kansas City. And then last week against the Patriots getting blown out. But just feel like Clint Kubiak's not nearly as capable to run the football or call running plays, I should say, when the backfield is struggling and the offensive line is better, certainly better in past protection. But not good enough to make this a dynamic running game. You know, else doesn't have a dynamic running game anymore. Tell me, Jalen hurts my friends. Talked about it the last couple weeks. I'm officially at the point where I'm okay not only benching him, but if you want to cut Jalen hurts, I'm all right with it. Last four weeks, there's a last month of the season, quarterback 15, quarterback 24, quarterback 17, quarterback 20. Panthers have played four games, three of the games the, the quarterbacks they faced have top 20 points. So this does feel like a nice matchup. In theory, it could be that get right game, but he has one rushing touchdown in five games. That's where he was buoyed. He has two carries inside the five yard line. If you knew through the first five weeks of the season that Jalen hurts was going to have two carries inside of the five, you would say, where is he going to get all of his fantasy points? I guess he's going to have to throw it with his arm, which is not where he gets all of his fantasy points. So I think at this point, I would love to have Devante Smith. He's will watch those practice reports obviously dealing with that hamstring. That will help a lot if he's able to be back in this offense. But I have Jalen hurts at quarterbacks 16, knowing in the last month, he hasn't finished higher than quarterback 15. The only reason I would rank him high is because I still have that like Jalen hurts. Maybe he falls into the end zone in my brain. They just aren't utilizing him in that way at all this year. Totally out as a starting quarterback. I will say this. They've been really, really short-handed. Dallas Scotter came back last week after the game. Nick Ciriani did say he's hoping for some reinforcements for this week. So it's possible. We get Barclay and or Devante Smith back. And that's going to mean a lot. And if they're healthier on the offensive line as well at some point landed Dickerson. I'll be back. Hopefully Drew Kendall comes back this week. We'll see on that. So the supporting cast has been dreadful. And it's not hurts his fault. So once that once they're healthy, I think it's a chance to get back into the back end one QB1 conversation. But I agree. I think his days is an elite fantasy quarterback. Probably over no push push. No starting start for me. Like that's where his that's where the the all the love came from. I'm actually surprised you're so optimistic. Let me ask you this Mike. You are having a quarterback 10 right now. Well, that change if Sequan and or Devante Smith are at this week. I would say he'll go down a few more spots. Okay. Yeah. You know, people, uh, Mike probably top of the list of people that openly root for a team, but also call it how they see that with their team. Oh my gosh. Right. So as you have me in bed 10, it's not like not a homework pick. I actually feel like sometimes you're like harsher on the eagles and like the sort of like the median fan or observer is. So interesting that Mike has them all the way up at quarterback 10. I'm with Daniel. I'm a quarterback 17. So even one spot lower than that vibe right now. And I think they can he can perform against his defense. The, you know, remember, they're missing their top two corners as well. And he played again, he played the Jags and the Rams last two weeks to very good defenses. I know that the Rams had their struggles on Monday. But you know, when you're playing an elite team, obviously even good defenses are going to have bad days still very talented. And like I said, Panthers have allowed three of the four quarterbacks to start the season to hit 20 fantasy points. So this could be the get right game. Just because the matchup feels nice. I think it's enough that he's in that conversation. All right. So quarterback 17 in my fantasy rankings. If we were strictly doing most fashionable quarterback rankings, Jalen Hertz would be number one over Joe burrow. Yeah, he's the most stylish guy. Jalen's cool. I love cool Joe. All right. If we were doing most fashionable fantasy analysts, I mean, just awesome today. I love you. Yeah. You know, I woke up and I said to myself, if you can dream it, you can do it. Yes. And so I decided I wanted to wear overalls. Yeah. I totally understand that. So they're amazing. Thank you. I appreciate that guys. What else is new? Daniel looks awesome. I appreciate that. You know, it's not every day. You try to do something a little bit different. I figured I'd dress myself this morning, usually rosy dresses. We can tell for what it's worth. Thank you, Michael. You'll not decide anything positive. I did see that. I did, I did notice that it's a decision that you made. Wow. I love you, Mike. Keep that in mind for about 20 minutes from right now. Let's dive into the running back rankings here for a week. Six of my friends looking at the running back rankings, one through 10 on our screen. The aforementioned Ashton genty on here coming in at number nine, not because of the rushing volume, but because he's had at least three catches in every single game getting a lot of passing game. Great matchup. Really good matchup this week against the bills. Running backs 11 through 20 now here at 17. Also, the aforementioned Sequan Barkley has not topped 10 fantasy points yet. We'll see if he comes back and place this one. We will watch and monitor those practices closely. Yeah, he needs to get back for us. At least as an RB two. And then you look a little deeper down this list. Running backs 21 through 30. March on Lloyd shows up at earning back 23. What a match up for him to touchdowns last week, taking on the Dallas Cowboys first game over 10 fantasy points in week five. Maybe he can keep it rolling here in week six. Let's talk about a couple of other guys here. We have three of the running backs. We're going to dive into field. You were right here yesterday when we talked about cam scatiboo a little bit. Yes. And just to reiterate some of the points. If it's not this week for cam scatiboo, there's the giants running game in general, then you can probably say it's not going to happen at all this season because the matchup will not get any better than this. The saints have allowed the most fantasy points per game to opposing running backs at 31.82. That's a huge number. So even if cam scatiboo accounts for half of the giants running back points this week, if they stay on pace with what the saints have allowed, you're still getting nearly 16, which I think ram would be amazing. Right. There's not been a good start to the year for cam scatiboo. And it's not because they have been like dinked and dunked in the passing game. And they've, you know, they've been up big. So teams are they rush the passers so well. So teams like, this is one of the issues. Not an issue, but one of the things that I think happened with Seattle last years. It's like they're constantly crushing teams and they're so good on defense that like sometimes the best thing you can do is just dump the ball off to your running backs and hope and pray, which gets you a lot of fantasy points, but not helpful in real life as much. The saints have a lot of 140 on rushing yards of game. That's the third most game of the game. Yes. The cowboys are dead last no surprise there. And camp's got to move. Maybe he's due. I mean. He's probably a mic you can hit the OTD stuff here, which actually is not great. No, it's not. But Kim Skataboo has probably hit bottom 25% tile outcome relative to the amount of work he's gotten. Yeah. 11th and rushing attempts so far this season, 15th and rushing yards, 14th and snap percentage. He's playing a lot. He's the guy for the Giants, obviously Najee Harris is eating away at him a little bit and Tyrone Tracy is playing some as well, but if Kim Skataboo can't get the job done this week, real questions about whether it'll happen at all for him as not an RB1. That's not happening. No, but could he be a top? Could he be the guy that is consistently ranked somewhere between 13 and 16? If we don't see it this weekend, probably fleeting. He's going to fall on that dead zone of like running back 17th through 30 to start him because you have to. Yeah. Not because you want to. Essentially Tony Pollard so far this season or like what we've gotten used to Tony Pollard being actually a chance to your question 20th in expected fantasy points are running back so far. So that's he's just that kind of whole hum right there. Basically, he's like 17 to 23 right in that range all the time. The main reasons limited receiving and only two carries inside the opponents five to your point so far this season. So yeah, it's just not enough not quite enough to get him into that RB1 conversation. That's tough. You did just mention another running back. I did Tony Pollard that's what I'm going to talk about. So you want to just reiterate on my cams, you know, you already said it's the same basically the same thing. 8.7 fantasy points per game for Tony Pollard so far this season. It's just not 8.7 8.7. Not great. And that's despite the fact that much like him's got to believe he's been busy 70% of the called runs 8% of the targets. He has been unlucky and the touchdown department just one is expected total is three and a half which is 14th. They're running back. So he's had some running. He found his way into the end zone also just nothing as a receiver. He has 11 targets which isn't awful but not great. Yeah. Not only 24 yards on those 11 targets. So he's not helping you out. I think 11th all pair to say is awful. Just over this. He played wide receiver in college five game. Yeah, awful. For I mean, two point two talk about an RB. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it could be worse than that. It's a higher target share than like what like we're used to Derek Henry seeing. I mean, he's a little bit better there. This year, but again, my point is like 11 targets. You should probably have 70 yards. Maybe a touchdown. He's 24 yards. He's just doing nothing there. But guys, with four teams on a buy, all the injuries and a good matchup. Pollard is in the RB two conversation. This is an opportunity for him. The Colts have a lot of third most yards and six most fantasy points to running backs. 35 plus points to Derek Henry and Jalen Warren, 23.8 to Ken Walker at the third as well. So if there's ever a week to use Pollard, throw him in the RB two slot, this is it doesn't feel good. No, if there's a week to do it, but this is the week for the next, let's see, buys go all the way to week 14, yeah, with one week where there are no buys. That's the Thanksgiving week, which is week 13. But for the next seven, eight weeks, just get used to a lot of it doesn't feel good. But you've got to do it. And I want to hear Daniel's thoughts in just a moment here on Woody marks, but doesn't it feel like and maybe this is just being a prisoner of the moments, but doesn't it feel like this is the year where like week to week management has mattered so much more because we've had fewer sticky guys at the very top of every position, even quarterback has been a complete carousel, right? Like Lamar Jackson's Miss time, Daniel's his Miss time, Caleb Williams is Miss time. Drake May was bad for three weeks there. So many of the guys Joe Burles been okay. Like I wouldn't say Joe Burles been like the world on fire. He was better Williams might emerge this year. He got hurt. Yeah, it's been a tough one. So we have like, I don't know, 30 to 40 guys, maybe we feel good about then everyone else is a flex. Totally. Basically, and the tight end position kind of is the same. There's like four or five guys. You actually feel confident in every way. Yes. And now it's just every other position. It gets bad. Even not that like we prioritize these positions, but like even at defense, there's usually a few each year. Just do it. Right? These are the only one that you're saying week in and week out so far feels like a positional difference maker. The Broncos have been okay. Not dominant. Right. The sea oxy been okay. Not dominant. So Texans, same deal. Yep. I had this back. Should I save this for later? No, you can have it now. So how many more? We brought in these bags yesterday. We did the all I talked about my favorite gas station foods. One of them I picked was the all dressed chips. These guys had never heard of. Have you heard of all dressed? Yes. I have not had them. Did you bring these in yourself? No. He doesn't have these at home because he's no, we're just sharing. If you guys have never had them, you should have it because all dressed chips are unbelievable. It's a mid-show snack, right? Yeah, why not? I'll tell you what, while you guys have those, I don't want to talk about what he marks. Go for it. Yeah. I feel about that. Really good. They are really good. It's sour cream and onion. Just with a few extra with it's got a little salt and vinegar in there and it's got a little barbecue. I got the barbecue second. Yeah, it's interesting. Oh, the different little bit. Yeah. It's a nice flavor profile. You know, it's not a nice flavor profile. And what do you marks in your starting line out? You don't like it? No, I don't like it. Okay. Tell me more. He's running back 24 for me. He took every single snap once day of a month. I'm ready. Got her. So we love that. We love that. Exactly what we want. Let's not look at week one because week one Monty had that big game. Last month of the season, this is what Texans running backs have done so far this year. 12.9 fantasy points. This is combined. Week two. 12.9. Week three. 15.9. Week four. 12.5. Week five. So combined. Woody marks and David Montgomery, other than week one, have yet to top 16 fantasy points as a duo in this backfield. I know he is going to get the backfield basically all to himself. Yeah. So we do like that. He'll have all the volume. Please take it on the Jacksonville Jaguars. They've allowed two runbacks to top 8.3 fantasy points so far this year. One of the one case Brown. He had 11 catches in that game. I know. For what it's worth. The other one was Jonah Coleman, who had a touchdown in 58 totally yards. That's the best rendezvous. That's the NFL right now. Just feels like you are. You are. This is a touchdown dependent desperation flex that you probably added off a waiver is that we just talked about with these other running backs. You're not going to feel good. I don't want to start what he marks because I have incredibly low expectations for him this week, but you might not have a better option at running back. And if you don't, maybe you throw them out. There's a low end RB two. All fair there. I don't have a strong disagreement with that. I'm just still triggered by David Montgomery every time he comes up in any capacity because it was like the amount of vitriol that we got. Well, I got because I have the audacity to say is a tray a sell high after week one when he scored 32 fantasy points on 51% of the snaps. I'm going to have a hard time getting rid of that one there. But yes, I agree with you on what he marks. It has not been good for this Texas running back room that Jaguars defense is legit. But as Mike mentioned in a week with four teams on a buy, there you go. Probably be a starter. It almost is. There's a lot of guys that probably talked about this yesterday. You can probably put judgekins if he plays in his conversation marks, March on Lloyd gross JK Dobbins. Stop. I'm going to throw in my mouth. Make me throw in my mouth right now. They're all just like, I don't feel great about it, but it's disgusting. Big day, big day on the on the practice front. Judgins, you mentioned he's considered day to day. The Brown signed who off to who do a practice? Audra guest. Audra guest made off of the Vikings practice squad. I think it was the Vikings. Yeah, he's there. And they have Julian McLaughlin, who would be the change of pace back. So if there's no Judgins, it's estimate and it's McLaughlin, that's all I have. He Sanders is out. He's on IR. So he's done. He's got put an IR yesterday. Oh, man. That sucks for us. I just tell you something. I think so. That's like the first time ever. That's never happened. Wow. So he's out. So that's it. It's just them two guys and wow. So they'll need to keep working on that spot. If Judgins is out, well, I think we'll get a pretty good indicator this week, because you can't go into a game just with the Jared Anderson wall. Like, yeah, someone like, yeah, yeah, and those kinds of supports for tomorrow and Friday. Let's dive in as a wide receiver rankings, friends. Field really took the day off yesterday, didn't it? Well, you know what? It's the first time we've seen his family in like four days. Give him a break. All right. Wide receivers one through ten. We got Christian Watson coming in as wide receivers. It's clear. That's a compliment because field 99.99. No, I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. It was a shot to start. Yeah. Christian Watson, wide receiver six this week is wide receiver three this season has six touchdowns going up against the Dallas Cowboys love him here this week. Looking at wide receivers 11 through 20 George Pickens comes in at tied wide receiver 18 after a big week last week, 28 fantasy points is wide receiver 19 on the season. Look at Matthew golden up there at 11. I never doubted him. I never, never once down and never doubted any Packers receiver wide receivers 21 through 30 Romeo dobs in spite of just being the guy in that wide receiving core in theory that F.D. Chisholm a ratio right there. It's top three of four games with fewer than three or fewer catches excuse me comes in as wide receiver 28. We got a couple of guys to talk about here next to him. Michael Wilson was in one of these spots. We had really big expectations for him last week. We did. And I think that we need to kind of like reset what Michael Wilson is right now because I think maybe in part because of the Marvin Harrison trade, maybe in part because of that 17 target game he had a few weeks back that were like, all right, volume. They may be a bad offense. They may be getting smoked all the time, but this is like a top 15 or so wide receiver part of that's because we saw him last year have multiple games where he was peppered similar to this with like 15 17 targets. So like this wasn't just a, oh, it happened once we've seen this happen up. No, he's a legitimately good player. He's a deserving wide receiver one for this offense. They extended him for $25 million a year. This offseason. I like Michael Wilson. I just think it's important to know that if you're sitting there and you're saying like, why is this guy at wide receiver? I guess probably 19 or 20 consensus ranks. Why not 12 or 13? Couple things here. He's got two. Top 24 finishes this season, does Michael Wilson. The other three games, 35th are worse. So a player that you would not have wanted to start in those three games, a couple of those were absolute disasters as well. And only one wide receiver all season has reached even 50 yards against the Rams. And by the way, do you know that was? You guys probably do because 50 yards against the Rams happen on Monday night, Closha here. Oh, okay. And 57 of those yards came on that overtime. Yeah. Just that, you know, that, that twist and turf, that, that, that curvy twisty. I don't even know what word I'm trying to describe, whatever, that weird run after catch play. It was all the screen game. The Rams have been dominant against opposing wide receivers. Debo St. Emil got to 18 fantasy points in week one, but he had only 49 receiving yards. He scored the touchdown as well. That's those cause. Debo and Shakira said, right? Yes. We're gonna have to catch. Yeah, exactly here. All right, which that sort of stands to reason, right? Like you're not going to blanket those slot guys because there's so many ways for offenses to create traffic and opportunity to these for those players. So I think for Michael Wilson on Sunday, the calculus is, you need garbage time. And by the way, the Rams are 12 and a half point favorites. So there might be some garbage time here for Michael Wilson. I just wanted the level said here with Michael Wilson felt like he'd kind of graduated in some people's eyes. So like, you know, fringe top 12 wide receiver, he's going to have some top 12 weeks for sure. I think he's more of like low one wide receiver. Yeah, one thing going to add here is your lions have a problem. It's corner back to right now. They can't figure out that spot in the straight straws. No, that's been a problem. Yeah, exactly. But DJ Reed is their clear number one. He shadowed Michael Wilson in that game, which will kind of explains why they didn't go to Wilson a lot. But the problem is and the reason why Debo and Shakira, the guys that have made hay against the Rams is because they have a Tremac Duffy on the perimeter. And Tremac Duffy has been shadowing once he's probably going to shadow Michael Wilson in this game. So it's another situation like that to be aware of in another reason why I've Wilson closer to 20 than 10 to my car nose fans are understandably very frustrated right now. One thing that Michael a floor mentioned after the game, I think it was other in his Monday or Tuesday press or was basically the lion strategy was we're going to double Tremac bride and we're going to double Michael Wilson. I'm thinking to myself, all right. Well, if teams are going to double those two guys, it'd be really nice to have a guy that was once the fourth overall pick available wide receiver to utilize him or or or or a guy who was the number three over. I'll pick in the draft at one point and use him. Wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't that be a gender porn and Jalen Brooks or what you do in that situation? Hendrick born week five long shot on fantasy focus countdown. That was Jacol. What was Chef. He's called. He went with he had a good one too. Oh, but actually he had a hilarious one. He had Roshan Johnson, which was hilarious because Roshan Johnson, I want to say until about three minutes to go in the game had like two fantasy points. And this has been a conversation is Ben Johnson did not just run out the clock when they were getting smothered by the packers on Sunday. He wanted to try to score points. The packers were generally a lot of pressure. The bears couldn't get off of man coverage. And so I think at one point, Roshan Johnson caught four dump-offs from case key. So his number went from like two to nine. And and shefty and I were playing each other in the war on league. And he also had Roshan Johnson as his flex. And I'm thinking to myself if Roshan Johnson ends up with like 20 fantasy points because he catches eight fourth quarter passes. What am I going to do? Not be happy. Not be happy about it. It sounds like me watching a Pukka Nakuha against you and that you were on air. Yeah. I mean, I football. I don't know if you were keeping an eye on that I was until we got to overtime. I was like, I think I might have. I was I don't think I got you to overtime. It was overtime. I got I got a catch. But that was so frustrating. I was literally like live tweeting how liked Pukka Nakuha was. I mean, at one point, he had the record. He had the fewest yards on the most catches all time. Like 15 catches was under 100 yards. I was like, are you kidding me? If you told me at 24 targets, I crush you easily. And I could not get there until overtime. But after you you beat me by a couple points last week in a different league this week, I got you. I always fair. Yeah. These things tend to equal themselves. I have to get better admittedly on doing them on the night playbook broadcast of like ignoring fantasy football. I'll come. Like at one point, there was like a play and I was like, I think that may have swung something on the other. Yeah. You got to break it out loud. What are you talking about? All right. Anyway, we're talking bears. How about we keep that going? Let's do it. Sound good. Roma Dune say is the receiver I chose here. Season high nine targets last week. Go progress free for 40 though and only five fantasy. I love that. It did not work. Obviously Tyson Beach struggle for 47 fantasy points. Mike. He must have fumbled. Defumble. He did. Probably. He did. Yep. So four games under seven and a half fantasy points this season and only five games. That's not very good. But I do want to give some reason for optimism. Here. First of all, Caleb Williams, chance to play this week. We'll keep an eye on that throughout the week. Yep. His playing time and usage are trending up for Roma Dune say is a 23% target share and two stray games. Remember the week before that worked out to a good fantasy day. He had six for 94. He is third among receivers and snaps a season. Also has three and zone targets, which is an area where he's generally been busy. Finally, good matchup against Atlanta. Third most catches and six most fantasy points to receivers so far this season. It's seven receivers are have already hit 14 and a fantasy points against him. They have faced a most wide receiver target. So that always makes it tricky tricky. They're kind of mid pack and efficiency. But teams are attacking them with a wide receiver position. So maybe that leads to something for a Dune say, all that being said, I traded him in dynasty last night. I'm going to say who put this on the pole. Yep. Yeah. We can't. Let's do the circumstances are this a 14 team dynasty. A lot of friends from the industry are in this one. Rodo Pat from row world runs it. Sigmund Bloom, Adam Levittine. I can go on and on on group. It's been going on for over a decade. You in that leaf field? I'd never gotten by to have a Jew. No, I'm also not in that I'm not the commissioner. But anyway, I have a really good wide receiver room. Roma Dune say actually not been I've been have not been using in the last few X's. I'm really good at receiver, but could use some running back options. I've Javonte and Quinchon and Judkins manual Wilson. So I need some help there. But I got offered from Sigmund James Cook straight up for Roma Dune say fascinating trade. Oh, funny enough. He traded me a couple years ago. I gave him AJ Brown in a one for Roma Dune say when I was like in rebuild mode, but I just my team turnover really quickly got lucky. Anyway, Cook's 27. Dune say is 24. So it's dynasty. There's some age consideration. Obviously receivers all last longer. But I felt like I have a shot to win it this year. Yeah. I've trained McBride. I have a trade in Daniels and Trevor Lawrence. Like my team is really, really good. Nikoa chip pickens my I'm I'm stacked. So so the question. Let's go to the poll. Straight up. One for one. I said it was fine last night. You asked about it. I mean, the poll. It's fine on the poll. Two contenders making a trade James Cook for Roma Dune say which side do you prefer vote? How long do you put the parameters on this? You like for the next three years for the next five years? Just in general, what do you do it? Like if I was rebuilding, like if my team is not good, I'm not there. I'm keeping the young receiver. Yeah, you'd rather have the the youngest like a Dune say, but I think Cook right now as an anchor of that running game should be an RB one. The rest of it gives me a chance to win great conversation for. Sorry, go ahead. Did you say that you traded AJ Brown and a first round? No, no, opposite. I got. Sorry, did I say that the wrong way? Sorry. I traded away AJ Brown. I got a Dune say in a one. Okay, okay. Which I think I was like, man, that will be a lot to try to away because if this was a few years ago, AJ Brown was cooking. AJ Brown, another guy that will monitor the practice of this. Yes. He's eligible. I would say that it feels uncertain that he plays this weekend. But shoot, if he's back, like it'd be nice to get a couple of these guys back that we lost very early on in the season that are fantasy difference makers. Yeah, that may be I want to start DK Metcalf in my flex position, which I'm probably going to do this week. Guys, I've got him as wide receiver 23. Let's talk about DK Metcalf. All right. Clearly, the wide receiver won in Pittsburgh. Nine plus targets and three was four games coming into last week. Then only four targets last week. What it's worth, it was the lowest volume passing game of the season for the Steelers a little bit there. I do believe that this is just what DK Metcalf is going to be. Aaron Rogers will have pockets where he kind of looks like that vintage Aaron Rogers. He's not going to have three passing touchdowns every game. Like he has each of the last three weeks. So you're going to have some ups and downs. DK Metcalf is going to be a yo-yo player. I didn't think he was even going to be a yo-yo player to be honest in this offense. Five weeks in, it's clear that he is more involved than I thought he was going to be with Michael Pittman on IR. Roman Wilson going to be out. I also really love the matchup because even though the Bucks haven't let a ton of things happen to wide receivers, they've given about least 16 and a half fantasy points to a pass catcher in every single game this season. If I had to guess which Pittsburgh Steeler pass catcher was going to get 16 and a half fantasy points, well, it could be potentially, I guess, Pat Fryer-Muth. It could be the rookie that you grabbed off a waiver's last night. Bernard, I wouldn't get it. I didn't get enough Jeremy Bernard on waiver some out of myself. I have to look at what how much he went for across them. I didn't look at that, but I woke up to maybe one. I got a man like I don't care about the game enough. Wow, I'm mad about it. I want to take a shot on it. We talked a lot about him yesterday. DK will be the, I think the obviously the highest percentage chance of being able to give us that production that we've seen week in a week out. So with where we're at by weeks right now here in week six, he's wide receiver 23 for me. All right, let's go to Ty Denzen. Let's dive into some Ty Denzen. Oh, no, let's do some mailbag. Okay, let's do some mailbag. Let's talk to the people. Mailbag questions. Shout out to our buddy, Eric Moody. Follow him on social media at Eric and Moody. This first one comes from Joe X L 20. I would say Mike definitely cooked in that tray. Medical Michael. Oh, it's got McClory Cook straight up for a dunes a is a great trade to me. Absolutely. love that. Obviously again, this is dynasty not season long, not redraft. Filled walking around a dark house in a bucky suit is horror movie material. That is kind of true. You said it not me. Someone shows up a guy delivers an Amazon package and field opens the door. Oh, something actionable. Mr. ANC. Okay, Michael. So who do you start? Hurts your cousins cousins. It's not even close to talking about both quarterbacks. Yes. You have the analysis crazy to think that, but I'm going with cousins here in this one. Do you like that? Santana wants to know I can't believe I've asked this, but who should I start? Jeremiah love or Alvin Camaro? Jeremiah love. I'm still in love with me too. They got to get him such a tricky one. Get him involved in the passing game though. At least little floor was asked about it. You don't really have any answer that tells me he's going to lean into it, but hopefully they find a way because I don't understand why you have Jalen Brooks out there playing every down, but you can't find a way to get the ball in love. Sands Yo, my stascio wants to know. Oh, my God. Dean and Alan, Jeremy Bernard or O'Marion Hampton, can I please start two of these? I don't say please. No, I don't think he wants to. I'm going Bernard and Alan. Why would you want to start a Martin Hampton now? I don't know. Yeah, I agree. I agree. I'm very intrigued by Bernard. I think he's going to be very busy in this game. A lot of pass volume there. They've been scoring touchdowns. He scored most touchdowns through the air. I'm kind of fascinated by him biggest disappointment of the fantasy season. Like given we have a lot of time. It was I think and we can have this conversation. Maybe maybe another future Wednesday. Yeah, and we do our biggest bus in Phoenix. He's certainly more on the shoreless. We'll truncate the rankings top. We'll be faster. I should say sometimes we take our time. Biggest bus because there aren't lots of candidates. Next up, let's talk about some tight ends, tight end rankings. One through 10 for you here. I say likely comes in at tight end for it. Is that surprise? Anybody with the well, right now? Yeah, he's getting tons of volume. He has been crushing, taken on the Saints this week. We love that. That's tight ends one through 10 on the screen. Tight ends 11 through 20 Kyle pits, even though he's back. Yeah. Welcome back all the way up to tight ends 17 and our rankings. So with four teams on a buy, he is a mid to low end. And you know what? He's he's gone up from like we had him ranked around probably like 25. He's back up to 17. He's not up high enough yet, though, where he's going to just fall on his face. All right. Like he's going to wait. He's going to do a little more and a little more and he's going to be like, all right, he's back in the top five. He finished second last year and then go one right exactly right, exactly right. We know this game. This is the part that really sucks about it because he's like collateral damage for everyone else that was just like, you know what? Michael Penix, I'm sorry. We will sacrifice Kyle Pits as long as you make sure that be John Robinson and Drake London are involved. And that's kind of where all fantasy managers are at. But steady program. I have a bunch of guys. I know. I know. Well, I know it's frustrating. All right. Let's talk about, uh, who do I just talk about? Pat Friarmoot. I mentioned. Yes, you did. Yes. Let's talk about him a little bit more. He is inside the top 10 and his Daniel knows. It's like the greatest athlete in the history of the Broke School behind my wife, Chapin. Um, five plus targets for five games already this year for Friarmoot, which isn't a ton. But this is tight hands. We're talking about. And he has four touchdowns. And as we'll discuss more during our fantasy face off, Aaron Rogers is in Fuego right now. Rogers has nine passing touchdowns over his past three weeks. They a design things for Pat Friarmoot in the red zone. And B Rogers trusts him and see he's just a huge human, which not as big as his teammate, Darnel Washington, who's got great size in the red zone, like touchdowns are just a little more likely for Pat Friarmoot than some of the other tight ends that are surrounding him in the rankings. Yep. Speaking of Pennsylvania tight ends, how about Dallas Goddard? He is back. Good for you. Like that one. Yeah, nine targets last week in his return from injury six for 38 wasn't good. They were playing Jacksonville has been good defensively. Remember he scored two touchdowns. This is the only other full game this season back in week one. And he scored 11 touchdowns last season. He continues to defy the odds in that category. Panther so far four touchdowns. Top 10 and fantasy points of tight ends, Harold Fanon and Sam Laporta, two guys that we generally rank in the vicinity of Dallas Goddard, both at 22 plus points against his defense. So Goddard is very much in the back end tight end one mix. Love that. Speaking of that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, a lot of coal. Stin love lens. That one, even better. Oh man, I mean, you know, the coal reference was good. You know, that's right. That's right. Nothing like a ton of people know that. That's good. Let's talk about Colson. Loveland. This is not about numbers. No numbers will be used or harmed in the making of this take. I just want to say that right now Mike has Caleb Williams projected at the tight end spot. If I think the Caleb Williams is going to start at the quarterback position, I'm willing to roll. Colson, loveland out there. This week, given what the tight end position looks from seven to 15, I really feel like and I understand with how bad it has looked. I get it. If you're like emotionally, I'm not putting that guy in my line up until I see it. If it's like a I need to see it first, totally understand. But as long as we have Caleb Williams in the projections and we will keep watching the practice reports as they come out this week. I think he plays. I am in on starting Colson, loveland and my thought process is even if he has a bad game this week, I'm going to say, okay, we get one game to knock the rust off for Caleb Williams. If after the second game, after I start him again next week because he will be a top 10 tight end for me next week, then I'm going to potentially change my mind. But if we have Colson loveland with Caleb Williams, I am in on him with the narrative this week. Okay, a little further than that is let's take it two steps. I guess a step or two further. They play next Thursday night. So we're going to get two snapshots and isolated period, including one in which the only game on in the NFL at that time next Thursday against the Patriots. If things either go poorly in both or we have one good game and one bad game, I think we just for the rest of the season don't talk about the Bears past getters. I'm fine for that. Like what is there to offer? Like it seems like it's going to be good and it's not. It seems like it's going to be bad and it is the only reason why I'm going to give it even two more weeks is because Caleb Williams has played one full games. Bingo is with Caleb coming back that's been graduating from the Bears after two more games. If things go haywire, I feel confident that as long as his plate playing time is there at the fantasy points will come, but what we have to figure out is this guy going to be like the next frame of bride like we thought or is he going to be like Dalton concade and just kind of be like that kind of flashes with big games, but also you never know when to start him. He right now he's been more like concade. Actually, he's been worse than that because he's on fantasy punishment for next week should just be start Colston, lovely. So honestly, that's what got us the punishment in the first place field. I pulled lots starting. I don't think it'll be a punishment at some point, but I'm still confident. It's tough. Very tough. All right, let's talk about a couple of defenses really quickly guys. We look at defense, especially with the streaming d's with by weeks upon us a couple of these. Someone's this week. You're right, though, field. It's been tough to navigate through these. It's been a lot of similar options. Baltimore Ravens right at the top of that list, field gates. They are number one. They play the Browns. I asked Mike last week, you have the jets ranked that high against the Browns. And he was like, dude, they're still pretty turnover prone. And what happened? Oh, the jet scored a defensive touchdown, right? It is. You're dead. 18 Finns or all the jets this past, but still, I mean, 18 points, though, 18 points is huge. So when in doubt, don't doubt my clay. That's right. It's just a good rule of a thumb to follow in life. It's a high variance position. But yeah, all those categories are considered turnovers and play points allowed. You're not a high variance. You're a low there. Yeah, you're low variance position. Good or bad? It's good. We can protect your good persistency. Yes. Okay. All right. Not as low variance as Daniel. That's more high variance. Mine is the chiefs against the chargers. This has been atrocious. Believe it or not, this would maybe surprise people. But the chargers are the most generous team to opposing defense is so far this season, they've allowed 12 plus fantasy points to the opposing defense in four or five games already this season. And the chiefs have been kind of all over the map. They've had two top 12s to dud so far, but they've seven four story turnovers. Ethan points per game allowed. So they've been pretty good defensively. They generally are sacks, but just a lot of yeah, exactly. But they're getting the other things. But it's enough that we think it let's assume they're at the 10th best defense. And then you get the chargers. We like them a lot. I'm going to say why not think about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers guys. You may say why think about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? Why think about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? They have scored eight points, seven points, seven points and six points in four of their five games. They've never scored less than four points as a defense, taken on Pittsburgh and Aaron Rogers. I do believe his pain a little bit above his skis. If you told me some of those touchdowns, maybe regressed a little bit. Maybe they weren't scoring as many points. Mike says, yes, they will. It's a little bit more of a, it's not my favorite defense. I like both of you guys is more, but if I can't grab either of those defenses and I still need to grab a defense, I'm kind of looking at Aaron Rogers may be coming back to Earth a little bit. Tampa might be able to take advantage of that with what they've been able to do last couple weeks. I want to save some time for our random rankings. Yes, to our fantasy face off fantasy face off the judge this week. That's right. That's why we're the overalls. There it is. Just our graphic. I am proceeding over all of the things happening today guys. That's what the suspenders are for. That's right. I'm going to start with Mike Clay on the quarterback position. All right, guys. I'm going with Jalen Hertz and he's facing off here with Aaron Rogers. So I'm going to, my choice here is Jalen Hertz. I'm going to stick with him. I know he's slumping, but he at least has 12.6 fantasy points. In all five of his games, Aaron Rogers has been under that in two of his five games. So the floor so far for Rogers has been much lower than Hertz despite his struggles. I know that the rushing was down for Jalen Hertz last week, but he had 220 passing arts and he had four plus carries in his first four games. It's not like he's a zero there. He's still given you something in that department. And again, I expect to volunteer Smith and St. Juan Barclay back to sweet by the way, good match up. The Panthers. Yeah, they crushed that they crush Cooper rush in negative points, but 20 plus to Caleb, 20 plus to goff 20 plus to Dishon Watson. It's good match up for Jalen Hertz. That's what I got it hurts. I'll let you talk about Rogers before I absolutely unload on that. Okay. I'm probably going to we want to be quick here. I'm probably going to I'm probably going to win this one anyways, because Aaron Rogers has nine passing touchdowns over the past three exactly three and three straight games Daniel. He also has 31 passing attempts. every game this season five times already in 2026. He did that eight times all of last year. This Pittsburgh defense, not as good. This Pittsburgh offense more aggressive. He also has at least seven point five yards per attempt in three straight games. That hasn't happened since October of 2021 when he won NFL MVP that season. Aaron Rogers is playing lights out. And have you watched Jalen Herch recently? You really want to start him over a Aaron. Yeah. Can I add one? I want to add one more note here. Okay. I will. I just mentioned that the Panthers have allowed in three of their four games, 20 plus fantasy points. The only exception was Cooper Rush. The Buccaneers have not allowed a single quarterback to get to 20 fantasy points this season. And they face Burrow love, Dak Watson and Kyler. It'll happen on three of them are really good. I mean, stop trying to persuade the judge. Jaleners. Here's the thing. I love the matchup for Jalen herds. And it is a great right potential opportunity. Don't say but, but don't do it. I'm watching him play football over the last month. Thank you. You didn't have his thing cast and it has to and he still might not have his supporting cast this week. I'm going to have to go with Aaron Rogers in this one. I'm so sorry. All right. Offal take field. You go first because you won the last one. Let's talk about some running backs. Let's face off in the running back ranks. And I have Bucky Irving. Mike has Javante Williams. Bucky Irving up for me over five yards per carry. He's eighth in the NFL and rushing yards per game. Fifteen point four carries per game. He's getting an elite work. He's a better receiver than Javante Williams. Yep. And did you know the Daniel Dopp has the single greatest physique of any fantasy analyst in the history of the industry. They're all good stuff. Did you watch Bucky last Thursday night? He absolutely matched 30 plus fantasy points. Did you see what Javante Williams did in that same game? Under half of Bucky Irving's fantasy points and that's how this argument wins when they shared a stage. Who was the better football player? This is, this is a troche. It's okay. Yes. Bucky Irving had a big game last week. We're not going to chase those points. He was under a fantasy points. The prior two games. Under eight points, prior two games under 13 or had 13 points the week before that. He is a total of 12 targets in his last three games. He is a total of 23 receiving yards and his last four games. Also last week. He lost Goldheimer, Kishan Tucker's back and he handled, he's handled actually two of their three carries inside the five this entire season. Pittsburgh held who he's facing this week. He held Jonathan Taylor to 11 points last week. Okay. The Fonte Williams. Okay. He's got the he's got a family. Let it like leave him alone. He's not a family. Okay. I'm not done. So Bucky way down. Javante way up. Seven touchdowns already this season. That's third at running back leads the NFL and carries inside the five yard line with 11 this season tied with some guys named Derek Henry and Jameer Gibbs. He's 13th and carries and touches. He's ninth. They're running back in targets. Again, Irving's been a non factor there and the Packers have led the second most touchdowns with nine to running back so far. This season the fifth worst EPA against the run. They have the Packers have allowed 22. That EPA. Wow. 22 plus fantasy points to the opposing running backs in every single game this season. And who else? Who can we limit? Who's going to take the three things? Who's going to take the 22 points from Javante Williams? No one. No one. I'm already the Mercado. Easiest one. I'm officially convicted of murder in that one because that's how badly he won that one. I am going to take Javante Williams. That was about that one. I'm sorry. I feel you were. Yeah. Javante Williams. How lucky. Can we really know like three things is good? Yeah. Three things. Yeah. Let's do people out of my right. I want to win though. That's fair. That's fair. I'd be a good attorney. You'd be a bad attorney, right? I'm bringing it all on. Honestly, you should consider a career change. Wait a minute. Is that a compliment? Let's start with you. Mike, I love what you're doing here. The onions of bringing Christian Watson to the table when I'm the guy. You hate this guy. I don't hate him now. I was mad at him because he let me down when I liked him most because he couldn't stay healthy. But it turns out I was right all along because he is good. Never mind. Number three in fantasy points to season 22 plus and three of five games. He leads the NFL with seven end zone targets. He has a lot of those top five in receiving arts. You know the area yards are there and get stylist the worst EPA against the past this season. They have struggled. Malik neighbors to fondigs, Zayflowers, Nico Collins and Mecca Buka all had big games against his defense. And Christian Watson is next up. And then now you're going to you're going to pick Drake London who has zero touchdowns this season. Wow. Until Sunday when Drake London goes off for two touchdowns. Remember when I nailed that George Pickens call us to go out of touchdown. I do remember getting too on Sunday because the matchup on a per game basis may seem like it's a little bit better for Christian Watson against the Cowboys. The Bears got exposed this past Sunday. By the Packers wide receivers. And by the way, just for the record, one of us actually believed in Christian Watson this year. One of us said the breakout is coming for Christian Watson. All right. One of us spent the entire season making jokes about his hamstrings being different lengths. That was him. That was you. No, wasn't for the purposes of this argument. I mean, that is you. I need all right. No ham's Drake London has more catches. He has more receiving yards than Christian Watson objection. So far this season. Drake London is a better football player than Christian Watson. If two of plays on Sunday, I don't fear nearly as good about this argument. So I'm going to say that Michael Pennick's doing your plays on Sunday and Drake London feast against the Bears. I'm going to get out of this one really easy. If Michael Pennick's junior plays on Sunday, I'm taking fields arguments. Yeah, do that. No, you got to pick one. Then I'm going to go to Watson. You guys both don't even like. I don't you're right. I don't like Christian Watson, but trying to be objective here. I am unbiased. Yeah. And now that he's got properly lengthened hamstrings, honestly, and that has been the thing and I've made it a joke this whole time. But like the dude has been awesome. I love being able to see someone who now, 27 years old. I said a bunch of bad stuff. Like stay healthy. Be like he's being awesome. Love being able to see it for the kids guys like this. Like even I'm sorry, I feel I'm sorry. Like another guy, Javonte Williams stayed healthy now. And Dallas, he's crushing it. The guy's a terrific player. So all right. Eagles are going to lose my 30 on Sunday. That's that's rude. Probably true, though. All right. Non cell phone electronics. That's going to be our random rankings. And we're going to start with Michael. Cell phone electronics. All right. So that's three. Okay. Top three. My number one, I'm going to go one to three because third, we have something for the screen here. But number one is of course, of course, when I go home, I take my laptop with all my projection models and I attach it to triple monitors. Yes. At home. Love that. I have to process all of this stuff and make you guys seem smart. So I imagine that they're like touchscreen monitors and you're doing like stuff with your hands and you're just like throwing it up on the screen. You don't do that. But that would be fun. But love the triple monitors that have number two is, look, I know this one's lazy, but TV like, come on. TV has to be on the list. That's that's on the list. So TV for sure. And number three is of course, this one's unique to me and few others. But my racing rig, what you're seeing on the screen. Oh, you're right now double nerd. Yeah. This thing. Come on. This is awesome. That's like you're in an arcade. This is a real real. Here's a good test of this. When Mike talks about his triple monitors that he's doing projections from. He actually sits in the seat with the steering wheel while he's doing it. That's actually not true. Here's the difference. This is a good litmus test here. How long were you dating your girlfriend before you told her that you had a racing racing ride? No, immediately. Because Megan was not true. Megan is an F1 fan. No, that was, uh, no, that is true. Although, I haven't had much time for, uh, now a days years with more travel. I'll be investigating whether Megan had apprehension right away. If on the first date, you're talking about racing. I knew I was a nerdy immediately. Yes. Yes. All right. I'm going to go next to you guys. Obviously number one. I forgot to send my number three. I'm going to go number three. I sent in my three worst for the record. I'm not actually going to do my three worst. I'm going to do my three best. The thing about this is that these are my three worst that's crypto NFTs and cyber the cyber truck. When was the last time you thought about an NFT guys? Non-fungible tokens. Nope. It's been a while. That's been a minute. Those are the three worst things that have ever been invented. All right. How about the three best things that have ever been invented that are not cell phones? Are you going again or no? I'm going to, well, that doesn't count. I'm going to give my actual three. Okay. Got it. Number one, Billy the bass. Oh, the guy that, yeah, when you walk past it and he sings at you. Yeah. You know, you're always talking about. Okay. Go ahead. Okay. Number two, lamps. You walk into where I'm completely dark. But guess what? Bam. Light everywhere. Yeah. Everything changes. Yeah. Speaking of Megan, something I learned is overhead lights unacceptable. On acceptable lamp. No, no, lamps are great for mood lighting. Overhead lights. They're so tough. You want me over on that? Yeah. Number three or what would be number one? The number one thing, the most the coolest electronic invention. The Bernie thing, the doctor used on fields, former man parts. May they rest in peace? What is that called? Like a cauterizer, maybe? Yes. Yeah. That thing. Yeah. Cool. That is. Yeah. Your lineage ended. Yes. Like that. Correct. Yes. I can no longer have more children. All right. Soon I will. I want to be on time to take hold. I like the lamp one. But the rest, I hated that. Oh, really? Wow. It's funny. It's hilarious. I just rest in peace. They had a good run. They had a good run. Let's go ahead. You're up next. Number three, key fobs. They're great. I thought about key fobs. I mean, as a kid, my family, like, and because of me, like, I locked my family out of the key out of the car. Actually, at a carnival once, it was awful. How old were you? I was like 19. It was last year. No, seven, seven rate somewhere in that range. And we got stuck at a carnival for a while. And it was with the babysitter, by the way, too. It was just to hold disaster. That sounds like a great ploy. You're like, Oh, no, we locked the keys in the car. I got to go back in the carnival. Yeah. To get ourselves some more. I know. Yeah. That's not fun. Number three, number two, GameCube. You guys are probably GameCube grown up. Yeah. GameCube was dope. And six out of four. GameCube, and either the console's all really good. They're all really gaming consoles. Yep. Any of them all really good. Best game on GameCube. Do you guys recall what it was? Not a GameCube cube. I didn't actually have a GameCube. I played it at friends. I had all the other ones. Super monkey ball. Okay. Great game. Okay. It's you like basically balanced monkeys on you know various courses. Thanks. Okay. That sounds great last one here. You ready? Last but not least. Hold on. Which one's a nerdy or a super monkey ball feel playing super monkey ball? Or Mike having an eye racing rig? I has. It's cool smoke balls fun. Okay. Number one and this is a little bit more for our generation because I'm not sure the kids these days appreciate it that much. Do you guys how remember how much of a breakthrough it was when Tebow. Yes. Became it. Yeah. Tebow, which you could record programs and then you could watch them at a later time. Yep. So there were various considerations here. Like if you had a favorite sports team and you, we played sports growing up and I played hockey and I practiced at like 830. You get ranked time at various times of the day and you would miss your favorite sporting event because you're at your own practice. Huge. If your parents wouldn't let you stay up late yet enough to watch something, right? Like still am a big WWE fan, but growing up when I was young, young, like I couldn't watch every hour of Monday Night Raw. No way to go to bed, kid. Come on. Tebow massive breakthrough. Yeah. Before that, we said, we're going to tape it, which I still say, but now we say DVR thing. Yes. But back then when that came out, the word was just Tebow. Tebow. Yeah. Just Tebow. Tebow. There's a there's a term that you use when like you go. There's no such thing as googling something. We just describe it as googling. Yeah. Yeah. You search something on an internet site, right? Yeah. Called Googles like Kleenex. The next is not a product. It's the name of the company that makes said product. Do you guys have any really quickly? Yeah. Do you have any? Oh, that's a good question because there are things where it's like we know them as one thing, but it's actually just. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What's the what do you have any that didn't make the list that were? The only other one I thought about was, which I have video games as well, but um, like modern day technology and cars. Okay. Like the backup came and like all the different things. I mean, two electric guitars, because it's a guitar electric. So like totally in on that anything that vibrates like toothbrushes or massage chairs or the thing that just does the. There's just like it's literally walk around with one like a miss. I do have a. Yeah. All right. I'm going to show golf simulator is my next man up. Oh, thank you guys for hanging out with us. We're coming back on Thursday previewing everything here in week six. Guys, don't forget to let me try to tie into your soul. I won't write. We'll see you guys tomorrow.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The hosts discuss fantasy football rankings for Week 6, emphasizing quarterback and running back matchups, with Bryce Young and Lamar Jackson highlighted as top contenders.
  2. The Patriots’ injury to Travion Henderson creates a significant opportunity for running back Ramondra to step into a top-10 RB role due to limited pass-catching depth and a two-game absence.
  3. There is debate over starting Jalen Hurts, with some analysts viewing him as a fringe option due to inconsistent performance and lack of recent volume, despite a strong matchup against the Panthers.
  4. Cam Skataboo is seen as a high-risk, low-reward option due to poor rushing stats and a tough matchup against the Saints, who allow the most fantasy points to running backs.
  5. Tony Pollard is considered a mid-tier RB2 option in a week with multiple team injuries and favorable matchups, despite limited receiving and rushing production.
  6. Michael Wilson is reevaluated as a legitimate wide receiver with strong offensive volume and potential in garbage time, though shadowing and defensive schemes limit his upside.
  7. The tight end position is dominated by consistent performers like Pat Freiermuth and Dallas Goddard, with Colson Loveland emerging as a potential streamer if Caleb Williams starts.
  8. The hosts emphasize the volatility of fantasy football this season due to frequent injuries, inconsistent quarterback performances, and the need for dynamic weekly management.

Summary:

The Fantasy Focus episode provides a detailed Week 6 fantasy football rankings breakdown, focusing on quarterback, running back, and wide receiver matchups. Lamar Jackson and Bryce Young are highlighted as top-tier starters, with Young gaining traction due to strong passing stats and a tough matchup against the Eagles. The Patriots’ injury to Travion Henderson creates a clear opportunity for running back Ramondra to rise into the top 10, as the team lacks pass-catching depth.

Jalen Hurts is viewed as a fringe option due to inconsistent performance and limited volume, while Cam Skataboo is seen as high-risk due to poor stats and a difficult Saints matchup. Tony Pollard is considered a viable RB2 pick in a week with multiple injuries and favorable matchups. Michael Wilson is reevaluated as a legitimate WR with volume and a chance in garbage time, though defensive schemes limit his upside.

Tight ends like Pat Freiermuth and Dallas Goddard are stable top-end options, while Colson Loveland is seen as a potential streamer if Caleb Williams starts. The hosts stress that this season’s fantasy football is highly volatile due to injuries, inconsistent players, and the need for flexible, dynamic weekly adjustments. The episode also includes lighthearted moments on singing, personal anecdotes, and fan engagement, reinforcing the show’s blend of serious analysis and camaraderie.

Overall, the discussion underscores the importance of matchup awareness, injury management, and player volatility in modern fantasy football.

FAQs

Singing on platforms like ESPN could lead to copyright issues, as artists or distributors have the legal right to pursue claims. To avoid fines and legal trouble, they stick to safe, unofficial versions of songs.

Jordan Love is ranked as the top quarterback, with strong performance against the Dallas Cowboys, making him a top-10 pick in the rankings.

Yes, Bryce Young is considered a strong option. He leads the NFL in passing yards per game and has three top-10 finishes in four games, showing consistent performance despite past struggles.

Travion Henderson is out for multiple weeks, creating a significant opening for Ramondra Steven to step into a more prominent role as a running back, especially with the Patriots playing on Thursday.

No, Jalen Hurts is not considered a strong starting option. He has not finished in the top 15 in the last month and has limited recent production, making him a risky pick.

Yes, Tony Pollard is a potential RB2 due to a favorable matchup and four teams on a bye. The Colts have a tough defense, and Pollard’s usage and target share make him a viable option.

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