Week 5 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Hot Lockett

until Leonard Fournett gets back. Now, Quincy Anunwa, he hurts some people with the zero catches. However, it was revealed during the game that Anunwa seemed to be dealing with a hand injury. And they found out about this right before the game. And he indeed had some sort of brace on his hand. Thanks for the update, beat reporters. You know, what's funny is, you know, based on.

Target volume, and looking Robbie Anderson's way. I wonder how much that affected Donald's willingness to throw it deep. To say, I'm going to have to, you know, reorder my reads. Jay J. Jai was, he left the game. He was questionable with an knee injury. He did return. We got a, we got a message, an alert saying like, J. Jai, questionable to return. And then I.

And I looked up and it was like, wait, he's on the field right now. But J. Ajai is going to be a mystery. Wendell Smallwood ended up with a decent fantasy game. Can you even, can you play J. Ajai? You can. The system will allow it. But I would not. I mean, there are a couple players right now that I view as you have to get rid of. You have to get rid of these players. You have to take these landmines.

and turn them into something, package them, and get them on another team who is tempted from time to time to play them. Like JJ with his injury problems, like Derek Henry. Who just sucks. I mean, the guy is going to get enough work to where every now and then, biweeks are coming up. Someone's going to need them. You're going to want to plug them in. Oh, this matchup looks okay. If he can't do it here, when can he? And then it's like, it's just never going to get, never going to get it done.

Ian Rappaport is reporting there is confidence, quote, that Greg Olson will return in week six. You're buying it. Yeah, no, I fully expect that Greg Olson will be back in week six. While he's out there, he will perform well, but he is seriously, genuinely at a very high risk of reaggraving that exact same injury. I mean, I call it 50-50. You know, he's going to come back out.

he's going to play. And he'll be good, but there is such a high risk of elevating. I'll take that chance. I mean, if Greg Olson was on waivers, I'm 100% spending to scoop him up. If he's on my roster, I'm 100% starting him as soon as this week. Are you going to trade for Greg Olson? I probably won't trade for him because he's going to, in trade value, people are going to give him the rest of the season. Oh, he's back.

I don't view him as a rest of the season play. I do not believe he plays the rest of the season without re-aggregating that injury. All right. Let's move into the fun stuff, the good news, the people that really helped your team out. This week's fantasy stud muffins. So we have later on in the show, we have our rising stars segment. I considered my rising star to be the second half.

of football games because yes because quarterbacks like Aaron Rogers who threw for over 400 yards three touchdowns was doing nothing Blake Bortles was crushing your team if you if you started Blake portals you're like yeah Andrew luck well the entire first half just just absolutely nothing but these guys came through with huge performances Tom Brady is Tom Brady

back with the return of Julian Edelman. I mean, I know you were pretty much starting Tom Brady every single week, but there was, there was questions like, uh, this streamer's in a really good opportunity here, but Tom Brady came through 340 yards, multi touchdown. Yeah, I mean, I, is your confidence. My confidence in, in, in Brady is as high as it can be. I mean, I, you know, I, I, I know that it's been overblown the whole beginning of the end thing. Um,

Yeah, because it's ridiculous. Well, it's ridiculous and right. Not the beginning of the end, but, I mean, the whole argument was that you're going to be disappointed in the Patriots you drafted. So far, you're disappointed in Grunk, Rex Burkhead, Chris Hogan, all those guys. Now the new pieces? I'm interested. I'll take me some Josh Gordon. I'll trade for Julian Edelman. And with those pieces that are so superior to Philip Dorset and company that Tom Brady.

I mean, he's locked and loaded. He's, you know, three touchdowns pretty much every week. Right. Running back position, James Connor returned to being a fantasy stud. Return to being a fantasy stud. 21 carries over 100 yards on the ground to touchdowns on 75 yards through the air. Jason. We did not start with it.

But the people are going to want to know. They want an update on your League of Record team. My super team. Your super team. My super team. Which got even Super River. It did. When you traded for Antonio Brown. I was 0 and 4 with this dominant team. And I thought, I'm not out. I'm going to do it for the Foot Clan. I'm going all in. I traded a lot. I traded a future first. I got Antonio Brown added to the team. After I traded for Ben Rafflesberger added to the team. Clearly this week.

Good moves. The Ben Rothesburger Antonio Brown stack. It was hot. It was a delicious stack. It was very nice. I still might lose because James Connor, that jerk of a man and several others. I mean, this is, you know, we're going to be two of the highest scoring teams this week. And we'll see. So Foot Clan, here's what I need. Right now I'm up by 10.5 points. I'm in the lead by 10.5 points. I have Michael Thomas.

He has Drew Breeze. Yeah. It's going to be a sucky time watching it because Drew Breeze can do. My entire output is completely dependent. Anytime that I get something, he's still getting something. So it's just slowly going to be whittling down my soul. And I mean, oh, so far I went back and looked of the four weeks. Two times I would have won. Two times.

I would have lost. So this is Root against Drew Brees with me tonight. May he poop in his big boy pants. May, oh, Mark Ingram. Oh, be powerful. Be strong, Markingram. You run that ball and you run it hard on the ground. Anyways, you want to know what I put my chances of victory at? Let's hear him. I think the percentage chance for my victory is 55. No. Todd Gurley.

We need to rename the section for Todd Gurley because it's just not fair. I was joking before the show that he might be my rising star. Because it's it's absolutely out of control. 22 carries only 77 yards, but of course because there was three rushing touchdowns, nearly a fourth when he was called back on review. And I was lamenting as I was taking on Andy in the dynasty league that.

Todd Gurley, who had 77 rushing yards, had more points than Isaiah Crowell, who had over 200 rushing yards. Yeah, it's a cruel world, this fantasy football. But we love it. Speaking of Crowell, of course, just absolute dominant performance. I took a look back. The Denver Broncos since week two have given up at least a running back 15. The past few weeks, they've given up a running back one. The, the.

Celebrated Denver defense is not getting it done against fantasy running backs. Now, here's the danger with Crowell. He only played 40% of the snaps. Blal Powell also had himself a very, very fine game. So this is, if you could, if you can sell Crowell High right now, you should do it. Yes. I don't think you're going to be able to, but maybe you can swindle somebody. Just throwing it out there. This is like people want to know.

Okay, is this the breakout? Should I keep Cruel? And for me, no. It was, it was just a big game. He will have some games of. He's had big games. He's had several multi-touchdown games. And so, you know, I think Crowell is a guy that he's almost like Amari Cooper. You can throw him in your lineup. That's a pretty good comp. Close your eyes. Here's the Cooper of the running back position. And really hope because you could have that blowup game, but you could also just have no player in that slot.

Barkley, another dominant performance for Saquan Barkley, who also jammed his knee on his incredible leaping touchdown. Well, when you fall from 25 feet and land on your feet, a lot of times you jam your knee, and that's what happened. I mean, he hurtled the team. I mean, I, it was fun to watch athletes do those type of things. Honorable mentions T.J. Yeldin.

David Johnson Jason. Oh, David Johnson. We need to actually talk about David Johnson. Okay. Well, we'll come back to him. Melvin Gordon. Great game. Joe Mixon. Oh, yeah. He came back. It was once again reported that the load would be carried by Joe Mixon and Mark Waldenberg. Oh, hey, Joe. What's up? You play really well. I was happy to be your teammate, man. You think I could get the ball?

No. No? Okay, you keep doing a good job, man. Say, how do you mother for me? The three guys that I think we should at least focus on for a little bit. James White, auto start? Yes, 100%. With Rex Burk it out of the way, 14 targets. 14 targets. And he gets to boy the chiefs. I mean, the reality is even if you are in a standard league, like James White has always been a PPR only guy.

I mean, 14. He got two carries for zero yards. You can't play a guy like that in a standard league, except you sure can because he's going to get, seems like 70 plus, you know, receiving yards every game. And his chance at a touchdown is as high as Sony Michelle's. All right. So the two guys were it's crazy. They're back. Well, they were back for a week. David Johnson.

And Kenyon Drake. Drake had a monster game over 100 yards, over 100 yards from scrimmage and a score. Yeah. That's a pretty solid game. Because he's great. 13 total touches, not great. He had six carries. But I mean, yes. To Frank Gore's 12 carries. But 11 targets. What are you doing? He's Adam Gase. This is what he does. Wait, is Adam Gase the one that you straight up called a butthole? I did. You're, you?

are a smart and beautiful man, Mike. Thank you. Because I'm on board. I'm on board. Adam Gays is a butthole. Get him, get him off the dolphins. Get the ball in Kenyon Drake's hands. There was a great beat reporter from the Dolphins who this week was at practice and literally went up to Mr. Butthole and said, Mr. B. And he pointed to Kenyon Drake.

out on the practice field and said, do you want me to introduce you to Kenyon Drake? Because he's like, you should get to know this guy. You're running back. You should get him the ball. And I don't think Mr. B liked it. But, you know, what can you do? At least he had, I mean, the reality is Kenya Drake had 11 targets, which is glorious. You want to see that, him involved in the passing game. That's where he had seven receptions for 69 yards in a touchdown. He's electric, buggy-woogie.

But I still don't know if you could trust him. Okay. Speaking of trust, what about David Johnson? Yes, that. I mean, he had 18 carries. Great. All, I mean, 95% of them are up the middle for no gain because Mike McCoy is also in the Mr. B category. I'm screaming. But he scored twice. Yes, he scored twice. We're all watching and screaming at the TV. I mean, before the play. Hey, you know, we're joking like, hey, why don't you give it to David Johnson right up the middle into a crowd?

Why don't you do that? And then they just kept doing that. It was disgusting and awful. And the play calling and offensive coordinating, if you can even call it that, Mike McCoy was disgusting. But David Johnson got two touchdowns because of short fields from the Arizona defense, taking the ball away. I think they had, what, four takeaways? Something like that. They were five. They were a very strong DST play. Yeah. You know, so short fields resulted in touchdowns to David Johnson. If you look at his.

opportunity and his fantasy finish over the last several weeks, he's been a fine plate. He's been really helpful for fantasy. And so, because of that, especially paired with the narrative that Josh Rosen is able to actually move the ball, he's here for two weeks, two good weeks for David Johnson. You must. I am telling you, you must, must, must shop.

Okay. David Johnson. He is not a must trade because he is still one of, if not the most talented running back in the NFL. I mean, we saw Todd Gurley struggle with Jeff Fisher and company, and, you know, he wasn't great, even though right now it's like, oh, he's the best running back in the NFL. David Johnson might be the best running back in the NFL, but the Arizona Cardinals' offense, if you didn't watch the game and if your league mates did not watch.