Week 5 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Hot Lockett

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On today's show, we're going to be course talking about studs, rising stars, talking some duds before we get into the quick question. I want to remind you about the YouTube. Check it out. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Click that bell. If you're more of a Twitter kind of fella or gal, check us out at the FF Ballers, at Jason FFL, at FHitman, or at vacation. You can check him out.

I think that's a good Twitter handle. I'm sure someone has it. Somebody probably does. Someone looked that out, but at Andy Holloway. The website is the fantasy footballers.com. Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. Let's get into the quick question. What was week five's biggest fantasy surprise performance? Well, look. Well, you're being rude, Jason. I apologize. Jay Gris, you want to go first. If you don't speak cardboard bear.

He's saying that Mitch Trubisky scored zero points this week after last week's six touchdown game. I mean, I called it. Jay Grizz is really disappointed. And while you were, uh, you're doing the pre. I'm listening to the intro. I'm staring across the table at the bear. And it's been a while since I've actually like just looked at the bear and realized how ridiculous my life has become.

that across the table from me is a giant cardboard cut out of a grizzly bear you can follow him at j gris ffl of course oh yeah yes of course 10,000 Twitter followers because what a world also so my my biggest surprise right off the bat was that the at vacation Twitter account is suspended account is suspended so maybe we can get this maybe we can claw this away from Twitter for him five dollars

$5. Yeah. Cash. No, my, my, I mean, there were a lot, I would say, a lot of surprises this week. But the one that was both surprising and disappointing, which is kind of how I took this, was Marcus Marietta. Coming off of a great game, the breakout for Corey Davis. And I knew, you know, we knew this wouldn't be a great matchup for Cory Davis due to the Buffalo cornerback situation. But Marcus Marietta was not bad.

He was, I mean, unfathomably poor. He barely threw for more than 50%, which not good. Then no touchdowns, which is also not good. At least he did throw an interception, but because he's got that. At least? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's great news for him. And then he's got the baseline of rushing, so he was able to get a whole 10 yards. I mean, he, he.

Right. It was all phases. All phases were poor for Marcus Marriota. The Titans lost to Buffalo, which shout, I think that was Andy's almost upset of the week. And Josh Allen threw for 82 yards. I'm not saying that to push Josh Allen down yet again. I'm saying the Titans lost to a team that had 82 passing yards. That is rough. That feels bad. Yeah. I.

You know, last week I kind of finally said I turned the corner. I turned the corner on the Titans believing that maybe they're just a good team because I was calling it witchcraft and magic. I'm full 360 now. I went 180. Wait, three. So you're back to. I'm back to where I started. But no, 360 would be that you are where you were already because, no, that's you believing they're a good team. I'm saying I have completed.

So, like, I won 80 last week. And now I completed the circle. I'm back to where I believe, which is like, I got you. They're just having some weird games. My biggest surprise is, of course, Isaiah Crowell, who led me to a dynasty victory over Andy's ridiculous team. My piece of crap dynasty team came through because of Isaiah Crowell and his plus 200 rushing yards. Shout out, Crowell. I love you. Big smooches for that guy.

The biggest surprise for me was actually Robbie Anderson on the exact same team. Sam Darnold transformed into Josh McCown, at least the ghost of Josh McCown, because he decided maybe I should throw it deep because I have one of the best deep weapons in the NFL. Robbie Anderson comes through with two huge touchdowns, just missed Quincy and Nunewa on another one. Is this, did, uh, this is one of those? Did Darnold do a 360? Did Sam?

Darnel, Darnel Schwarzenegger. Now then, go long. Get to the end zone. Get to the end zone. I like that. Did he, did he? So I'm actually, I just literally made, made a note here. I want to go watch every snap of the Jets game again and see what happens because it's, you know, Darnold was not really.

You know, he's got an arm. He could throw the ball deep. We all know that, but that wasn't what he was doing. It wasn't what we expected him to do. And then in this game, he found Robbie Anderson deep twice. So I'm going to go back, watch it, see if these were the scripted plays, if these were, you know, just him making a great read and being willing to air it out. Quincy and Noonwa on the flip side could have been, I mean, both Robbie Anderson and Quincy Anunwa could have been biggest surprises because his floor has been so high on the season.

He had zero for zero. There's a very low floor mic. Yes. Well, we're actually going to talk about him. I think there was a reason that he showed up there, but let's get into the weekly rewind. Weekly rewind. Well, it seems to be the weekly injury report on Matt Berita. Man, this guy's going down every single week. It looked really bad when he went down against the Cardinals, but apparently it's just a mid to high ankle sprain.

Which isn't great news because a high ankle sprain is multiple weeks. I will say this, pro football doc, who's super accurate with video evidence. I think he came out right away and said it looks like a high ankle sprain. That was before any reporting had come out. So I'm going to go ahead and say that that's probably what it is. We'll talk about Alf tomorrow on the Waver Wire pickup show, but he's a must pick up now as the solo back. But the good news for Brita is he won't be out for the season. Right, right.

Just a couple weeks. So he'll be back. George Kittle did. He got a little nicked up on his knee, but I think that he is okay. The Rams. Oh, what happens when Trey Burton gets like that? Like when Trey Burton gets nicked up on his knee, all I could think when you were saying is like, oh, he had a little boo-boo. Yes, Trey Boo-boo. Thank you, Mike. I'll be here all day.

The Rams wide receivers suffered a couple of concussions. Brandon Cooks was the devastating one. We all saw it happen. It looked really rough. Hopefully he's okay. And then later it came out, the Cooper Cup all of a sudden was gone. And they reported on the broadcast that Cooper Cup was also being evaluated and ruled out for a concussion. Yeah. I mean, when it comes to concussions, it really doesn't matter.

how hard it is on the field for their time, what it looks like for their ability to either continue that game or to get back for next week. You'll just have to follow the practice report, see if they're getting more and more involved and progressing through the concussion protocol as the week goes on to know whether or not these guys will be there. If not, though, I mean, Josh Reynolds came in. Yeah, absolutely. It just, it's like if you're a RAM wide receiver.

Sean McVey just schemes it to where the defense can't see you somehow. I mean, every time you look at any RAM receiver, they're just running three yards open. It's ridiculous. Carry on Johnson exited week five against the Packers with an ankle injury. Now, he says he's fine. It looked pretty rough. It was a, it was on a great run to the outside. His knee buckled. It was one of those, oh crap, what just happened? Did a ligament go? But.

Just an ankle injury. He said he could have gone back in. Yeah, I was thrilled to find out that that was an ankle injury, even if for some reason it keeps him out a week great by comparison to any kind of devastating knee injury. I mean, he's just looked so good. And having been vultured twice by Laguerre Blunt this week, the sky's the limit for carry on. I'm not worried. I mean, you're just going to have to continue to see if he gets on the practice field this week. But I expect he'll be back.

Corey Grant's Jacksonville Jaguars running back suffered a Liz Frank injury. He will be out the remainder of the season. Holy crap, T.J. Yeldon is doing his best Fred Jackson impression right now. Just a depth chart assassin. Everyone on the Jaguars is going down.

Yeah, for sure. I mean, what T.J. Yeldon can do in the passing game, and we talk about this in the draft season, right? You have the really involved workhorse backs, but then you have the guys who are also pass catchers. And those are more rare. And T.J. Yeldon now is in that elite few where it's first, second, and third down. There's no choice. So whether or not he has a great game on the ground, he's going to be fine in fantasy. I mean, he's locked into a top 10 back.