Top 10 Shocking Stats from 2018 + Trade Targets

Generally, if I'm looking to acquire a player, I want them to be in a little bit more of a solidified situation. So like Quincy, where I believe in Sam Donald. I believe in him long term. And I think I can get a cheap weapon. And the fact that Quincy just signed his new deal has a young quarterback. I think that's a very interesting guy to go after. The name I'm going to throw out is also cheap. So might be a little bit gross.

when you hear the name, but stay with me. Zay Jones. Now, having everything I just said about how I want to have a stable quarterback, you know that Josh Allen's at least there for a few years. We'll see if he can become the guy that Buffalo thinks that he can become. But Zay Jones, over the final five games of the season, he was averaging 8.4 targets a game. He scored five touchdowns in that time. I mean, he was.

emerging as a as the go-to guy i mean robert foster was having those big exciting plays but josh allen is going to need someone who is reliable and zay jones young uh they spent draft cabal to get him if you recall zay jones was a second round pick he had it like that weird off season thing uh so so i believe moving forward

Zay Jones is going to be a very interesting player. For redraft, he's going to be an interesting late-round flyer. And right now, you can get him for probably pretty cheap. Oh, certainly. I mean, people don't believe in Zay Jones because he had such historically bad catch percentage so far while he's been in the league. But if you remember, his college production, his athletic profile, the draft capital spent.

He's coming into year three. I actually like Zay Jones as a target here. There's somebody that's going to catch the ball there. And I think Isaiah McKenzie's under contract for one more season at a cheap price. He's somebody that I saw hit waiver wires in Dynasty leagues. So he could be a free ad versus a trade target as well. Yeah, those are some good names. Those are some good names. We're ready to jump in? Shock some people? Yeah, let's do it. How'd you do that? I'm not even mad.

That's amazing. That's pretty good. I didn't remember what that one was. There you have it. All right, 10 shocking stats from 2018 and some questions for you gentlemen as it pertains to them. All right. Number one, titled QB Boom Boomers. All right. In 2017, we saw only set. So this is two years ago.

17 total quarterback performances of 30 plus fantasy points. And this is in four-point leagues from weeks 1 through 16. In 2018, last year, we got that total in four weeks and saw 33 weeks of 30-plus fantasy points nearly double the year prior. And so we saw some boom-boom games from the quarterback position. Is this the new normal?

Is this what you expect with the, you know, the return of Andrew Luck and the ascendant MVP talents of Pat Mahomes? Or do you expect it to be somewhere more in between the 2017 and 2018 numbers? I would expect it to be in between, but if it's closer to any of them, it's the one we just got. 2017, this is why we were talking about last off season of, it was this weird year.

not only for quarterback scoring, but for wide receiver scoring. I mean, there's a correlation. If wide receiver scoring is down, generally the quarterback scoring is going to be down as well. In this NFL where the rules are for the offense, it was so shocking to see what happened in 2017. I think this was a swing a little bit too far, but you're right, Andy. Patrick Mahomes himself is...

Mahomes is going to skew this number just by himself. I actually, I think it'll stay. I think we'll stay at this level. You have a transformative time in head coaching hires, the attention to the Sean McVeigh success, to transition to some of these kind of manufactured offenses that have a lot of moving parts and are bending the offensive direction. So I think we're going to end up with 30, you know, 30 plus.

performances. Yeah, we're getting more and more college systems coming into the NFL, which you go back, I mean, even 10 years ago, aside from Chip Kelly, but the thought of...

the NFL actually embracing what they're doing in college. They had tilted their noses up at the possibility of the college system working in the NFL. We don't do what those losers do. The thing is, if you look over a long period of time, the trajectory for scoring and the NFL continues to rise, but it's a jagged, you know, it's not just a straight angle because defenses catch up. And I, so, you know, I'm less optimistic that it'll just repeat what happened this year because.

I don't think Pat Mahomes throws another 50 touchdowns next year. I think some of these things come back to Earth. But two years ago was more the outlier than last year. I do agree with that. All right. The number two. Surprising, shocking stat. His name's funny. Arby's Matter? No. No. The Chicago Bears and the Los Angeles Chargers both had two running backs finish in the top 24. Right? Meanwhile.

Six teams didn't even have one running back finish in the top 30, including the Jets, the Lions, the Raiders, the Bills, the Eagles, and the Ravens. Of those teams that did not have a running back in the top 30 that I just named, who are you most interested in for 2019? So you had the Chargers, right? Yeah. They had two. The Bears had two. But...

I think this is, if you look at the list of the teams that had, it's easy. It was, it's easy for you? Of the teams that didn't have a back in the top 30, who are you most interested in? Well, I don't mind. Yeah, it's very easy. Okay. Because it's Kerry on Johnson. You darn right. It's the Detroit Lions. But the other names on the list, I just wanted to get that out of the way. I feel like that's the easy answer. But meanwhile, the Eagles and the Ravens.

They're both extremely interesting. Those are the two that jump out to me as offenses that I'd want the running back piece for, assuming it's established outside of a giant committee. For both of them. I don't know if we'll see an established...

one-a guy for either of those teams. Neither team seems to desire that. They want, you know, the secondary guys involved. They want a Darren Sprouls. They want a buck-allon. They want a Kenneth Dixon behind a bruising backbeat. But if you look at all these teams, yes, none of them finished with the top 30, but every single one was due to injury. You know, you lost J. Ajai. You lost Kerryon Johnson. You lost Lashon McCoy at times. And so next year, which team am I interested in?

It's probably going to be, I mean, obviously carry on. I love them. But I'm going to throw the jets out there because they're going to make a splash of free agency. You believe so? I think they're one of the front runners for Lev Bell. So if Lev Bell goes there, I'll be interested. All right. Number three, this one's titled Big Wide Receiver Hanchos going Hondo. Wow, that's a... What? I just left these titles in here. I like it because it's exactly what they did. They got Hondo.

Here's the stat. And Mike, you can decide after you hear the stat. All right. In 2017, two years ago, there were 114 single week wide receiver performances of 100 plus. We call those 100 yards. Those are a hondo. 114 hondo. That's going hondo, Jay. Yeah. In 2018, last season, there were 172. Oh, we're going. That's three additional 100-yard wide receiver games.

Per week. Where are you going? Hondo. I'm going Hondo. So, you had in 2017, only three wide outs that had five or more games of 100 plus receiving yards. That was Keenan Allen, Antonio Brown, and DeAndre Hopkins. Last year, you had 11 wide receivers, not three, but 11 with five or more 100-yard games. Julio, Thielen, Evans, Smith-Schuster, Hopkins Hill, Adams, Beckham, Brown, Cooks, and T. Y. Hilton.

And it's hard, I think, to take, you know, the question is, okay, we had 11. Let's say it's not going to be 11. Let's say next year there's going to be seven guys. Who out of that list that you just read? Yeah. Would not repeat. Because when I look at the list of Julio Thielen, Mike Evans, Ju-Ju-It's hard to count anybody out. It really, really is. I mean, you could argue Ju-Ju-Smiths Schuster if Antonio Brown is. But he has huge monster.

games you know the the hundred mark is something that that i think he'll i if i had to pick like you know which we do this is the question out of those 11 names let's say we try to pick two names that will that won't do it and for me it would be just playing the odds brandon cooks and i'm going to throw mike evans because i think mike evans can have a huge impact on the field without a hundred yard games but

Yeah, those are the names I'd throw out there. I think you're, you know, I guess you guys could go Hilton, but I mean, Hilton is just a magnet for 100-yard games. I would go Adam Thielen and Brandon Cooks. Okay. Yeah, Thielen Hilton and Cooks are the three guys that I think would have the most difficult time repeating. For what it's worth, though, Thielen had nine of them. Right. Yeah, so he's not in that. Well, when he started-cooks only had five. When he started the year.

I mean, every single, you know, every single game was 100-yard performance. He broke the NFL record for that. So obviously, a great year, you know, not taking anything away from him there. But it was eight, eight straight to start the season. So if you do the math, that means the second half of the season. He only had one. Yeah. So that's why I lean out of the deal with the system change. That's a good, a good point.

Um, Hilton had five and he missed some time and wasn't healthy. So that's, I think he's a, as long as Andrew Luck is there. Yeah, he's going to be in good shape. He's an absolute yardist master. Before we move on to the next shocking stack, want to think stat. Did I say stack? You said shocking stack and then you said think, which is not a word. Yes. Start over. Start over. Before we move to next shocking stat, want to thank today's sponsor, Handy.

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have tight ends? I don't like it. We, can I get a verdict? Yeah, the judge. Are we keeping that title? Can we, it's out there now. So you're, but is it acceptable? Is it, is it? Can we repeal? Yeah, you can scratch things from the record, Judge. Okay. Let's do it. All right. He's in on it. He didn't even make a ruling. Um, because he wrote it.

Did you write this, Brooks? No, that's the book. That's Kyle. Okay. We saw a major resurgence in top-end, tight-end scoring, which could have been the name of the shocking stat. In terms of PPR scoring for tight-ins, there were three tight-ins who registered top 15 all-time seasons. So you had three all-time seasons at the tight-in position. Travis Kelsey, fourth best ever. Zach Ertz.