Week 6 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Jordan OW!-ward

Now, he played Arizona, and anybody who plays Arizona blows up. Yeah. But now you got New England, the Jets, Buffalo. I just... Howard's very perplexing. It was a lack of... It was a lack of volume. I know he ended with 14 carries, but they went into overtime, and he did most of his damage on two or three straight carries as the bears were charging down to kick a missed field goal. In the first half, they just...

They were not giving him the ball. They finally did as they approached the end zone and then glumble from Mr. Jordan Howard. So it was not what we thought was going to happen. Talent and opportunity are the two factors in a player's fantasy production. Yeah, he's not getting an opportunity. He's still talented, but Tareke Cohen.

Seven receptions. You have to rise him up. He's a rising star right now. The opportunity for Cohen is there. I think the baseline in PPR leagues is now there. So you've got to go with Tariq Cohen. And those were the rising stars. Brought to you by Fantasychamps.com. You need a trophy, a ring, a fantasy football jersey. You want to be a Braggart? I mean, I'm planning on multiple titles this year. I'm five and one in both of our major leagues. And I'm feeling great. I'm pre-ordering.

All my trophies right now. Let's get into the duds. Poopped in his big boy pants. According to all the Cooper Cup haters, it's just anybody who got injured is a pooped. Pooped in the big boy pants. Deshawn Watson, what happened? 15 for 25. One touchdown. It's Buffalo. Didn't run the ball. Their defense is legit. Legit? Yeah. And he's lucky he got the one touchdown because it was.

He fired the ball at DeAnder Hopkins literally as fast as he could throw it. Just lucky that Hopkins has some really strong hands. If you've been playing Deshaun Watson, he has to take on Jacksonville in Jacksonville next week. Are you taking a little Watson break? I would strongly consider it. Jacksonville's been rough the past couple of weeks, but I would strongly consider it because the offensive line for the Houston Texans is exactly.

The medicine that the Jaguars need to get right. If Leonard Fournett gets back for that game, they showed a stat yesterday. The Jacksonville Jaguars run the ball 52% of the time with Fournett, 37% of the time without him, and they slow the game down. So Fournette's back. They're at home. The defense gets back on track. It could be a trap game for Watson. Derek Carr. He suffered an apparent left arm injury in the fourth quarter. He completed.

No passes over 10 yards. He only had two attempts over 10 yards. He averaged 0.01 air yards on his completed passes. And if you look at the, I mean, that's because there are so many. That can't be true. Yes, there are so many behind the line of scrimmage that his average ended up at 0.1. If you look at it, there were eight behind the line of scrimmage screen passes on the left side, probably all to Jalen Richard. Three on the right side.

He did nothing. He is nothing. He disintegrated into the mist. This was an atrocious game. And with him playing like this, with no weapons producing, you've seen Marshaun Lynch become irrelevant. You've seen Amari Cooper's irrelevance. You've seen Derek Carr's irrelevance. Do we delete them from the NFL? For fantasy purposes? Ten years, Raiders fans. Ten years of John Gruden. Honestly, I can't.

Have you seen? I don't know if this is a John Gruden thing or a Derek Carthering. I don't know if he is, if Carr has lost all confidence in his ability or what is going on with the psyche. Now, I just pulled up the website is Gruden gone yet. And the answer still says no. There are nine years, 13 weeks, three days, two hours, 48 minutes, and 48 seconds remaining on that contract. The best part of that website is the money made ticker.

Gruden has made $8.74 since I pulled it up. He's made $7,718,000 so far this in the contract. He has still owed $92,281,000. Come on, Gruden. Get it together, buddy. Look, he'll tell you the MAC trade and all that it's about building for later. Yeah.

And I would tell you that, too. He is approaching his build like someone who has 10 years. Who's worse? Marcus Mariotta or Derek Carr? Marcus Marietta sacked 11 times, had 10 completions. Sacked more often than he completed a pass. Highest sack per dropback rate in the last six years. He was sacked on 39% of dropbacks. Yeah, and that's that is courtesy pro football focus. And that's not all Baltimore.

I mean, anytime you break records, it is one part the defense and it is one part, the O-line, one part the quarterback. I mean, 10 for 15 and 117 yards. Brooks put up better numbers this week. Move on. Move on from Mario to move on from car. You can't trust them at all for fantasy. And I don't even care if both of them come out and just explode next week. I don't care. Let's talk about the fantasy yo-yo, Isaiah Crowell.

He has alternated good week, bad week, every week this year, 13 for 40. Surprise, a surprise that he was out there. Yeah. But he played in Indianapolis, didn't do much, Mike. How do you feel about Crow? He's, you know, you did not want to play him coming off the ankle injury. He was out all week except for a limited practice on Friday. So it was a situation you kind of knew you should avoid. But he's the home run hitter.

He's a running back three who just has the ability to give you top five weeks somehow. Here's the perspective that might blow your mind. Going into the week, he was the AFC's leading rusher. Yeah. Well, a 200-yard game in week five will do that. Still, you go through five weeks and Isaiah Crowell leads the NFL in rushing or the AFC in rushing, and yet you don't know whether you can play him week-to-week. And he has Minnesota, Chicago the next two weeks. So he's more of a set than a start.

for me. It's all about your options, but I'm hesitant. Yeah. Carlos Hyde, where'd he go? Things have not been good for big names in Cleveland once Baker Mayfield showed up. Carlos Hyde and Jarvis Landry were capable fantasy starters for the weeks that Tyrod Taylor was the quarterback. And what's happened? Well, for Carlos Hyde, honestly, it's,

It's been rough the entire season. I mean, he's just been getting touchdowns. And it was one of those you knew that the variance was going to hit. You knew that the regression was going to hit Carlos Hyde. But it has hit him right in the netheres. And for fantasy purposes, Carlos Hyde is looking rough. Would you rather have Lynch or Hyde stuck in those two tough situations? I think I would rather have, wow.

Can you count them both as one player and combine the points? Carlos I at least gets to play Tampa Bay this next week. Well, see, that goes for Jarvis too. I'm putting them both on blast. If Hyder Jarvis don't show up this week at Tampa, which everyone doesn't show up, you're getting the boot. You're out of my lineup. You're riding the bench. The lack of fantasy points is contagious. Everything is contagious in Cleveland. No juice for Jarvis this week.

Royce Freeman, 9 for 22. Dionne Lewis, 5 for 9. Every player in Tennessee is handicapped by the ineptitude of Marcus Marriota. Corey Davis, Dionne Lewis, Derek Henry. We've talked about Jordan Howard at length already, and we've talked about Marshawn Lynch. So the other player I want to bring up is Naim Hines. Martin Mack returned, Naim Hines stepped into the background, only two for 21 through the air. And this is a game where, you know,

They needed him. Four touchdowns from Andrew Locke. Three for 14 on the ground, and Marlon Mack seems to be the guy to own there. At least right now, he certainly does. It won't shock me, although just to see. So Heinz only had the three targets this past week. I think he will see an uptick, but I don't know if you can, with Mac back and getting that immediate workload, it's going to be very difficult to trust Heinz.

Chris Carson. Speaking of lack of trust. Yeah, I mean, Carson, Mike Davis, and Rashad Pinnon. Come on, guys. Running backs for Seattle against Oakland. They duped me again. I finally bought in. Yeah. On the freaking Seattle backfield in a juicy matchup. 29 carries. To be fair. But split across three guys. Chris Carson did have a touchdown called back. Tell you what. I think you should bench them this next week. I think just punish them.

Put him on the bench. Oh, for the by week? I will put him on the bench for the by week, yeah. All right. Pure coincidence. That's bold. Kenyon Drake, 13 for 57. They went back to him. He had the glumble, the goal line fumbling overtime. He then wept on the sideline and then came back in the game and helped him out. Kenyon Drake is a player in the national footballing. Yep. That's it. Pergatory. Wide receiver duds.

Jarvis Landry. Listen to this from what? Rich Rebar. Rich Rebar. Jarvis Landry has caught 11 of 29 targets for 114 yards and one touchdown in Baker Mayfield's three starts. 13 of those targets were catchable according to Pro Football Focus. And then he faces Tampa this week. Look, Baker, with Baker, 3.93 yards per target over the last three games. One of the hardest things a fantasy owner has to do is bench a name.

Bench of talent, right? Nobody doubts that Jarvis Landry is hyper talented. But it ain't happening. It's been rough for Baker. Since the miracle second half comeback for Baker Mayfield, it has been very, very rough. But I mean, a fantasy owner that right now has Kenny Galladay, who's been double digits every week except for one. Kenny Galaday is an auto start. Yeah, but he's not drafted to be that.

Of course. He was signed to be that. Of course. So if you're asking for a friend, Tyreek Hill Jarvis Landry and Kenny Gallaudet, you have to start two this next week. Gallaudet is Miami. Jarvis Landry has that juicy matchup. What do you do? I would play Gala day. And you'd binge Jarvis. Yeah. So even though you said Jarvis was, you got to play him. But you're bringing up Kenny, my man. Kenny G is so smooth. Kenny Goladay is a borderline wide receiver one, in my opinion.

He's the number one wide receiver. I'm just using this to calm down. I had Jarvis. Bringing bad vibes? The Candy G vibes are so smooth. I just need it. I need it. I feel better now. Good. Now I have to read about Antonio Calloway. Goodness gracious. Two catches on 10 targets. This is why I said sit him until he proves something. Landry and Calloway combined for 20 targets. I'm sorry.

for 19 targets that ended up in 20 total yards and four catches. That's a Baker problem. It is. That's a Baker problem. Like I said, it's been really, really rough for Baker. Okay, tell me who you're most concerned about about these other duds. Okay. Corey Davis, Stefan Diggs, John Brown, Will Fuller, and then I guess I'll throw Brandon Cooks in there, only two for 53. Who I'm actually... Sammy Watkins. The guy I'm actually concerned about out of that list would just be...

Corey Davis I would after the breakout game for Corey Davis I really thought we were turning turning the corner and then Marcus Mario to grab me on the shoulder said not I'm not so fast my friend watch me bang this football off for one of my receivers helmets watch this but he would be the the most concerning digs it happens a bad game from digs they they pop up they never happen when I'm playing digs fair enough fair enough bitter

He killed me earlier. Just one for nine for digs. Sammy Watkins, just an off game? Well, he is absolutely perplexing that in a game where your offense scores 40 points that you're only showing up for four targets, two for 18. He is a wide receiver three with upside. So you can still play him. You can play him against the Bengals.

But hopefully you are not counting on him as a core piece of your fantasy offense right now. Keel and Cole, five targets, just four catches, had a fumble. You know, Dante Moncrief got fully gooseed. I believe Westbrook had the touchdown catch. Right. But it's a mess there. We've talked about the, look, Robbie Anderson. This is why I said you can't play him. Three for 39.

You can't chase the points with some of these guys. You can't chase Cole Beasley's points on the road against Washington next week. I don't think you can chase Tyrell Williams and his too long touchdown. It could be Mike Williams next week. It could be Austin Eckler next week who didn't score. So just use some discernment. Go sign Germain curse. Go sign somebody with targets. But even with Pryor out or struggling with the groin, we don't know if he's out. Quincy's injury.