Week 2 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Mahomes Madness

level of human. He's like the Kelsey, like the grunk. He's, he is a special individual. And if they utilize him, if Winston comes back and they utilize him as the pass catching tight end, he is the type that has that top five potential to me. So he's mustache for now. The concern for me with O.J. Howard is that in 18 NFL games, and I just looked this up, two times in 18 games, he's had more than three receptions. Yeah, but last year was his rookie season.

That is included in his career. Yeah, but I'm just saying rookie titles usually don't have a lot of them. Also this year he hasn't caught more than three passes. In two games. In two games. Okay. So what is your point against that? I'm just saying he other. So if you throw out his games, then my stat is incorrect. Is that what you just said? You're not accounting for growth. He just said through two games and then you throw out his rookie year. Well, you could say that about literally every tight end not named Evan Ingraham.

I mean, stats that are crazy bad going into their second year. He doesn't catch a high quantity of passes. He's not targeted a high frequency. My concern is you have to have a 75-yard touchdown from Moche-Hauer. Do get anything. I will agree with you while Fitzpatrick is the quarterback. Okay. All right. Zachertz, 11 for 94. He's your beneficiary from a lack of a wide receiver core because he's really good. He just missed the touchdown, too, but 13 targets for a tight-in.

That's a boss game. Jimmy Graham, six for 95. Yeah. I think he had a touchdown call back? He did on a holding call. He could have been My Rising Star this week because it's the type of utilization that we were afraid was never going to come. And seeing that is, you know, look, if he's not just a touchdown upside guy, that's huge. I mean, because you already know that the touchdown upside is there with Aaron Rogers. So he's a guy to keep your eye on.

All right. We're going to talk about rising stars right now. Jason, why don't you kick it off? All right, dude. I'm going with, dude. Well, you know, you got to say, dude, you got to keep a cool because I'm talking about Keelan cool, Mr. Smoothman himself. Sweet mercy. Keelan cool last year was awesome. Okay, over the last six. Are we going with this? No. Can I get a ruling from the judge? Okay, he's.

Come on, Judge. Oh, he's shaking his head. No, but you know it feels right. He's Keeling Cool. Nah. All right. All right. Just keep talking about Keel and Cole. No, you can move forward with Keel and Cool. We're going to try it on. All right. We'll try it on for size. Over the last six. You know those? Remember those Joe Cool shirts? Do you remember those? Yeah, with Snoopy. With Snoopy? My dad wore those all the time. Wait. I thought that was like cigarette sweet. No. Well, no, there was Joe Cool. Joe Cool is Snoopy. You're thinking of Joe Camel?

Yeah, and cool. Joe cool with Snoopy with hate blockers on. Yep. So listen to this. Over the last six regular season games, he's averaging 107.5 yards. This is Keel and Cole, right? Cole, sure. Five and a half catches and over a half a touchdown per game. I mean, you look at the last part, you know, of last year.

You look at his college production. I know he was undrafted, but he was unbelievably dominant in college. And now forget the stats that bear out positive for him. Watch the film as well. He's the best wide receiver on that team. He's always open. When he caught that one-handed catch and just kept running with it, holding it above the defender. I mean, he's the only, he's the one to own if you want to take a shot at the Jaguars receiving corps. Yeah, he's startable to me. Yes. He's a, he's a must.

Start. Wide receiver. So he's your rising star? Certainly. Mine is Philip Lindsay. Yep. Running back for the Denver Broncos. It's funny because we have two undrafted players here. Philip Lindsay was another player with dominant collegiate production that was completely ignored, not invited at the combine, not drafted. First undrafted player in NFL history with 100 plus yards from scrimmage in his first two NFL games.

Listen to this. Graham Barfield tweeted out the snap breakdown through the first two weeks in Denver. Philip Lindsay, 40% snap rate, 23 routes run, 32 touches. Royce Freeman, 33% snap rate, 19 routes run, 23 touches. And then Devante Booker down at 28% snap rate. He is involved. He is being used all in and around the red zone. He is making big plays.

He is a flex-worthy running back start. They just need to get rid of Booker. Yeah. If it was just Philip Lindsay and Royce Freeman. They're 2 and 0, too. I mean, this is working. It's, it's troublesome. For Royce Freeman. Philip Lindsay's very, very good. Yeah. I mean, he's, he's been incredible. We do have breaking news, though. Breaking news. Eagles say a Carson wants.

is cleared and will start Sunday. So there we go. Soon to be breaking news. So Al-Sha Jeffrey is healthy and ready to go. That came through on the sleeper alert. Wow. So my rising star, Will Fuller. It's time to stop discounting and throwing Will Fuller away. The man is dominating.

for not just real football, but fantasy football as well. Eight for 113 with a score this past week, currently wide receiver 8 on the week. Here are Will Fuller finishes when games that he plays with Watson, with this quarterback, Deshaun Watson, 7, 16, 17, 3, currently wide receiver 8. Will Fuller is dominating when Deshawn Watson is on the field.

Eight receptions. This was not a one trick. He caught an Antonio Calloway deep bomb. Will Fuller is, Will Fuller is a wide receiver too. Keel and Cole or Will Fuller rest of the season? Oh, that's a great one. I would go Keel and Cole because I'm still going to bank on target volume when they both can break a game open. Fuller. Would you? And I like Keel and would you flex. Would you flex? Would you rather flex those two over Philip Lindsay? Yeah, probably.

I mean, Phil Winsie's been great, but we, because of Royce Freeman and Devonta Booker, he's hamstrung from having a monster game. And I still, I know this is a little weird, but I really want to see his utilization on the road. When he's not, you know, he's a Denver born and bred guy and, you know, playing in front of that home crowd. I want to see him on the road in the NFL. All right.

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Pooped in his big boy pants. Look, that wasn't nice. That wasn't nice of me. But you're my friend. It's fine. I'll take it out on the field. All right. Poopped in their big boy pants. This is what everyone wants to talk about, right? The guy's letting them down. What in the world do they do with them? Do you overreact? Do you trade? Do you hold? Let's talk about David Johnson. David Johnson is a problem. This is extremely concerning.

He shouldn't have even had a touchdown week one. The Arizona Cardinals' offense looked so bad. They couldn't move the ball. This week, they literally did not cross the 50-yard line until the last minute of garbage time in the game. That's how putrid. Now, if you're a team that can't get to the 50-yard line on offense, you're not going to score. I don't care what position or how great you are. You're not putting up fantasy points. Sam Bradford is the worst-rated quarterback in the NFL.

He has the worst pass rating of any quarterback in the NFL. So check number one against you. His bank account is rated very highly, though. Mike McCoy has bought the 11-volume John Fox's encyclopedia set and studied it fastidious. What's the word I'm looking for? I have no idea. Yeah, I believe that is correct. And you best believe it was the hard cover. It was. Well, he could afford it. Look at this. I mean, I don't know where to begin with David Johnson, but.

The equivalent of what Mike McCoy is doing with David Johnson is a world-renowned chef on the field, and McCoy is asking for hamburgers. I mean, this is... I don't like that analogy at all, because I love hamburgers. Look, it could be amazing. But I'm great analogy. It's ridiculous. David Johnson is not being split out as a wide receiver the way he was under Bruce Ariens. He's being run. If you see his runs, every run by David Johnson was an inside run this past week.

Every single one. In 2016, when David Johnson owned the NFL, he ran 31 routes a game. In weeks 1 through 2, he's running 16 routes a game. His numbers of routes run compared to Chase Edmonds, his backup, they're comparable. That's the concerning part. The total number of routes run isn't that concerning because the Cardinals haven't had the ball yet on the season is what it feels like. But we say we don't know where to start with David Johnson. I know where to end.

with David Johnson. Oh, tell me. Despite all of this crazy neck ringing information, you hold him. You do not freak out on David Johnson. You have to take, you have to also have reality. What do you buy him, though? What if you're, because if you're going to hold him, do you go seeking David Johnson because better and brighter days are ahead? I don't think so. I will, I'll always look, whenever, whenever a great player.

has two terrible games. I'll go and see if I can get him for pennies on the dollar. But what I'm not calling for David Johnson to be the David Johnson we all hoped for the rest of the season, but I'm saying you can't sell him right now at his lowest. And keep in mind, he was going up against the great Los Angeles Rams defense. When they were running straight up the middle, it was to a pack of Indomacan Sioux and, you know, Aaron Donald. This is, this was a bad game. But coming up,

You know, you've got Chicago, Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco two weeks after. They're at home for two weeks in a row. Right. So you just can't sell him right now. I think that would be a mistake. Do you feel like you want to weigh in here, Mike? I mean, we are the hometown Arizona Cardinal fans. I'm trying to be measured and not in sight panic with my word choice. But two years ago, we saw who is now.

Consider the best running back in the NFL. We saw Todd Gurley on a terrible offense with terrible play calling was a monster bust for fantasy football. So that's what keeps running through my head is, oh crap, is this what we're running into again? Where the team is going to be so bad and not know how to run an offense that we're in for big trouble with David Johnson.

Do you have any hope because Josh Rosen could take over at some point? Not really. I don't expect Rosen to like. Get a first down? I mean, Bradford had zero first downs. Yeah. Rosen gives you hope, but it's probably false hope. So people, and what people want to know right now is should they bail? And so Jason, you're saying no. I'm saying, let's say that some trade offers come through. Someone is offering you Leonard Fournette.

for David Johnson. Would you take that trade? I don't think so due to the current injury with Leonard Fournett. The fact that it's a hamstring, it's re-aggressable, no. Would you trade also injured, but someone comes with Dalvin Cook? Would you trade David Johnson for Dalvin Cook? Because of the injury, at the very least you have to wait and get more details. Cream Hunt. Oh, yes. I would trade.

David Johnson for Cream Hunt right now. I think the offense of the Chiefs, I would much rather have a piece of that. All right. The Cardinals. Last one. Jordan Howard. No, I don't believe so. I want the pass catching back. You know, you talked about Todd Gurley. But is he a pass catching? We know he is great.

But does the team know that? Yeah, yeah. I mean, he's going to be utilized in the passing game. And you bring up a great comp of Todd Gurley two years ago. Terrible season. Huge disappointment. Keep in mind, he was still a running back to if you look at his weekly, you know, I'm looking at the 2016 consistency charts from the ultimate draft kit. And Todd Gurley, yes, he was very disappointing.

But he still got it done most weeks he was an RB2 or better. He just never gave you those top five performance. That's what I'm asking of. In fantasy football, you have to call your shots. And wow. You don't want him to burn you down if you think he's. So he ends up as a running back too. I mean, sure, that's great.