Week 5 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Hot Lockett

The game is they're just looking at the box score and they go, oh, he's getting opportunity, he's getting touchdowns, he's David Johnson. Try everything you can to trade up. Try to trade David Johnson into Ezekiel Elliott, into Melvin Gordon, into one of those type of elite guys, package David Johnson with someone else, and see if you can get it done. Because I'm telling you, if you did not watch the game, you've never seen a worse offense. I mean, Josh Rosen could not.

His number one target, who was wide open all game, was the grass, the big patches of the field. He hit it left, right and center. It was really impressive. And please don't hear what I'm not saying. I am not saying you have to trade him. I'm saying you have to shop them. You have to try to capitalize on his value.

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I mean, just for the icing on the cake, he threw a 57 yard. Touchdown pass to Sequin Barclay. Yeah, I, you know, when you have James Connor and, uh, O'Dell Beckham, you make me go 0 and five. I don't like he was part of the problem. Robbie Anderson. So he would, he had three receptions, 123 yards and two scores. Gets to play the Colts and Minnesota at home the next two weeks. Are you interested?

in Robbie Anderson. So tomorrow is our WaverWire show. Robbie Anderson will be discussed in detail. But I mean in detail, because I'm going to investigate more on the Quincy and Noonwa. I'm going to go back and watch those snaps and see whether or not I buy into, because the talent is there. Right. But if he's not getting the opportunity, which he hasn't had this season, that it's irrelevant. Now maybe the injury to Quincy and Numa's hand forces the issue. But yeah, we'll take a look at how much you should spend on Fab, if you should.

on tomorrow's episode. Also back. Antonio Brown had a monster game, 13 targets. We've been waiting. Yeah, here it was. I mean, good. Hopefully the panic will subside on Antonio Brown. The most important part of that. 13 targets, San Antonio Brown, four targets to Juju Smith-Schuster. Squeaky wheel. Yeah. The Wi-Fi connected as they talked about. They added a mesh extender to their network and all was fine with Antonio Brown.

Devante Adams, calf, schmaph is what he says. He was fine. He had a monster day. Adam Thielen, congratulations to Adam Thielen. Apparently is the first wide receiver ever to go over 100 yards in the first five games of the season. He is dominating. He's incredible. And here's the thing. You can trade for him. I know it's hard to get a guy who's doing something that's never been done before.

Fantasy owners, even the owners oftentimes still just don't believe that it's going to continue to keep happening. It's going to continue to keep happening. The Vikings can't run the ball. Even when Dalvin Cook gets back, their offensive line's terrible. Their defense isn't what we thought it was going to be. And Adam Thielen is the reason I was so bullish on Adam Thielen over Stefan Diggs before the season. And then the ADP flipped. And I said, no, Thielen is going to be the guy is because of targets. He's the number one.

Yeah, it's just going to keep happening. I tried like the dickens to get him, but I fail. Like the Charles? Yeah. It's okay. I got Antonio. Demarius Thomas had himself a fine day. I think this was a product of very negative game script or positive, I should say, for the passing attack, for the Denver Broncos. Are you buying in on D.T. being back? No. If I had Demarius Thomas, I would be trying to sell him. He did make a great. I mean, the touchdown he got, which is really what.

what helped his fantasy day the most. I mean, five total receptions, but that touchdown reception was beast. I mean, he just took that ball away and was great. Sutton did get banged up in the game. Yeah. Yeah, that is true. We'll have to monitor his health and see because if if Sutton was going to miss time, then I'm much further on to Demarius Thomas. But for now, I would rather capitalize on a big game, big name. Sure. And swing him. Hopkins Cooper Cup came through with tremendous games.

Now, Tyler Lockett, he's been hot. Yeah. Some may say, hot locket. Oh. Hot Locket. I like it. It's not as good as you buy Minnan as Jim Gap. I'm trying that on. What is the, what about the producer crew? How do we feel about that? Oh, it needs to stay. Oh, Locket.

I love it. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, hopefully Hot Lockett can stay. He's on face for over 1,000 yards. He's coming through. He's a wide receiver 1 right now. Holy crap. Seriously? Yeah, he's scoring touchdowns every week. Doug Baldwin, which we'll talk about. Hot Locket. It's too fun. It's great. Yeah, no, I mean, Tyler Lockett's been great. He was almost.

My rising star and almost my biggest surprise. Because you assumed that once Doug Baldwin was back, which contrary to box scores, he was back. He was out there. You thought that Tyler Lockett and his weekly long bomb touchdown would go away. But eventually you just have to buy in. Yep. Let's see. Kenny Galladay continues his to his ascension.

He continues to rise as the number one go-to guy for Matt Stafford. Now, you know, I mean, the worst thing about Kenny G. Oh, his rats are too smooth. You can't play him next week. Oh, so smooth. But he's on by next week. But he's a beast. Kenny Gawley is the man. The tight-in position. Eric E. Ron. What? Hey. What? Start of the week. Fifteen targets. Over 100 yards. Two touchdowns. Eric Ebron.

He's a tight end you must play moving forward as long as Jack Doyle is out. I think you got a point. You have to play. No, I agree with Jack Doyle out. I guess I started because T.Y. Hilton and Jack Doyle and Marlon Mack, who is a pass catcher or has the ability, all three were out. This was a perfect situation. But I guess Eric Ebron was the number five tight end before this week. Yes. So the tight end situation, surprise, surprise is a mess as always.

But Zach Hirsch, Travis Kelsey, your stalwarts are getting it done. Austin Hooper. Oh, I love this. Jason, this is a tip of the cap to you. Saturday, basically pretty much Saturday night, you made the flip from Ricky Seals Jones, who, uh, oh, Ricky Goose Jones. You went to Austin Hooper, nine for 77 on 12 targets. Yeah, I mean, you wanted a piece of that Pittsburgh. Jason Vegas. Yes, you wanted a piece of the, the Pittsburgh game. Austin Hooper has been.

far more involved than a lot of the mediocre tight ends in the league. He, you know, it's taking him a while. And so the downside of Hooper is that he is at best the fourth option. At worst, fifth, if you, you know, Freeman is healthy. Right. And he's the fourth option. But he's clearly behind Sunu, Ridley, and Julio Jones. So you can't trust him that much. But with the Atlanta defense being horrifically bad and.

teams being able to score on Atlanta at will due to their injured players. You know, Matt Ryan has to keep slinging it. It has to keep going. And so, yeah, Austin Hooper, he's, I think right now a must pick up next week, Tampa Bay. That's the game I want. Right. I already, in fact, last week on Friday, I put in my start of the week at quarterback.

For next week. Oh, did you? Which is now this week. And who is it? It's James Winston. I want this game. What's funny is I did that about five days ago. So it must have been deleted by our producer. I'm not lying. I went a week ago and I did that already. I call first. We'll give it. Maybe we'll give. We're fighting for James. We'll give it to Andy and then we'll pick other guys. All right. Let's talk about Rising Stars. Rising Stars of the Whig.

I'm going to kick it off here, my rising star of the week. It might be a rental, but T.J. Yeldon, we're talking about a running back one. Yes. Here for T.J. Yelden this past week, 10 carries, 10 targets, over 100 yards from scrimmage, a touchdown reception. Like Jason was talking about, there are very few workhorse running backs in the league anymore. And T.J. Yelden.

At least for next week, and I, in my opinion, the next two weeks minimum will be that. His backup, Corey Grant, has now hurts Liz Frank injury. Leonard Fournett just can't stay on the field. And T.J. Yeldon is a good running back. Yeah. He can get it done. He's been over five a carry in three of three games this year. Can catch the ball. Game script proof.

gets to play against Dallas? Yeah, Dallas. Then the schedule gets a little bit more difficult with Dallas Texans and Eagles. I don't really love any of those matchups, but it's irrelevant. If you've got a guy that's involved in the running game and the passing game, you have to start them. And because of that week nine by, I don't personally, I think for Nett stays out till week 10. Wow.

And if they did, I mean, you've hit a home run with T.J. Eldon. And the reason I'm bringing him up, he's not on the waiver wire. I get it. But if you are in the situation where you are having to manufacture, you have to create a win right now. T.J. Eldon is going to be far cheaper to trade for than saying, oh, I got to somehow get Melvin Gordon on my team. Right. I got to get Zika on my team. That's going to be a very difficult thing to accomplish.

If a team feels like they have T.J. Eldon and they can cash in on an asset that's going to expire because he won't be a running back one the entire season. But I just think you should check in and see if you can get T.J. Eldon for a couple week rental. Yeah. No, I completely agree. I was going to put him in, but you had him selected before I got there. My Rising Star is a guy who's now done it.

for two games in his entire career, but they're his first two games. Kiki QT looks legit. He does. He, I mean, he's got great hands. We like them coming out of college. And the nice thing is Will Fuller was in the game. Will Fuller was there. DeAndre Hopkins was there. Kiki QT still had seven targets, six receptions, got a touchdown. He's a guy that I think going forward, you're going to be able to.