Week 10 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, A Dingo Ate My Brady

Everything was trending in a good direction for Lev Bell last week, including reports that the organization itself thought that he was going to report on Tuesday. And then he saw Des Bryant's. Yeah, Lev Bell is not going to report. That's what Adam Schafter is saying today. And if he doesn't report by Tuesday, it's done. The saga will be over. Levian Bell will not be coming back this year. He will be eligible for a...

Third year franchise from the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's not going to happen. Because that's QB level. Yeah. So Levy on Bell will be playing for another team next year. James Connor is safe. Yeah, assuming he comes back from the concussion. Tomorrow will be the final word. I mean, hopefully we never speak of this again. Yeah. I'm looking forward to that. Somebody signs them. Please don't show up. Chris Carson, Sammy Watkins, Rob Gunkowski, Randall Cobb, Robbie Anderson, all did not play. I have a just a hope.

for next year. Yeah? Let's get a season. Jason's an owner of the company, so you can't, I mean, he, it's not much we can do with him at this point. Oh, crap, to boot him out. Oh, that's not what you were. I wasn't, but I like where your head's at. No, this is for the NFL and for fantasy football. Just a season where we don't have one of these ridiculous soap operas that drinks on for the entire season. Look, if you need a soap opera.

Can I get one with an eighth round pick? Yeah. Ninth round pick? I don't need this first round drama. Or at least make it General Hospital, because that shows good. Wow. I don't know. That was the first one I could think of. They still do those, right? Of course, they still do those. There are tumors that still need to be found. There are people returning from the dead, returning from disappearance. Long lost twin brothers separated at birth.

Now in the hospital. It's really sad. This week's fantasy stud muffins. Continuing to prove Jason wrong, Mitch Rubisky went out to throw. My guy, Mitch. Continuing to be motivated. Why me? 355 and 3, ran in one. Nobody meets Mitch. Conversion. And Mitch Rubiskey played wonderfully. Having Alan Robinson back was a boon.

He's got Minnesota, Detroit, and the Giants next up on this schedule. This is his fourth game with four plus touchdowns. Mitch Trubisky can play football. Look, shout out to our buddy, Jeremy, for dropping Mitch Trubisky for me to scoop up off the waiver wire for free this week. I appreciate you, buddy. Yeah, yeah, I appreciate you. Well, it was funny because in a many ways, Mike felt stuck with Mitch Trubisky this week because...

He attempted with Zero Fab to pick up various replacements or potential starters. Hey, how dare you? $1. $1. $1. I had a dollar. And everybody kept sniping him. I mean, Russell Wilson disappears. Ben Rothensberger. Yeah, he couldn't get Ronsberg. I picked up Lamar Jackson. Not for this week, obviously, but just to keep him away from Mike for the rest of the season. And Mitch Trubisky looks like the best of all of them. Big Ben, Drew Brees, Baker Mayfield, and Russell Wilson ended up with solid fantasy weeks.

Andrew Luck against Jacksonville. He is a big fan of tight-ins. Big, big fan. Oh, big, big, big, big fan. I don't know what the percentage is of his touchdown passes over the last three weeks to tight-ins, but it might be over a million percent. I'm not sure. Scientifically, it could be. Marcus Mariotta, stream of the week, had a good game. Surprise. They beat New England. Sorry, I had to look it up because,

I'm not going to bet against it anymore. I get it. Math is broken. Probability goes out the window with Eric Ebrun. He played on 38% of the step. See, I wanted to. It matters to, no, it absolutely matters to me in general. But maybe it doesn't. Eric Ebron, well. For tight ends. Maybe for tight ends, though. For tight ends, though. For tight ends named Eric Ebron. Well, if you look at tight ends, though, that are technically, like you would consider them to be sharing that position, right? Like, it's not a.

even though the snap counts is 38%, right? You would still consider Doyle and Ebron to be a part of a platoon there, right? So maybe in platoon tight-in situations, when touchdowns are such a heavy factor for tight-in production, snap count is not as big of a factor. I'm going to look into those numbers. Sure, we can look in. There are a lot of situations where guys are goal-line tight-ins. Antonio Gates last year or two years ago with Hunter Henry was not seeing

The snap percentage that Hunter Henry was seeing. But he didn't put up touchdowns like Ebron's doing this. Well, nobody's done it like Ebron. It's just a matter of probability like Jason's talking about. If a guy's out there running more routes, he has more opportunity. But Eric Ebron is just, he has put a nuclear bomb to that. He doesn't even have to run routes, man. He rushed. He had a rushing touchdown. Okay. I'm not. Yeah, but what are the snap counts inside the 20?

What are the snap counts inside the 30? Those are what mattered more to me. I don't care if he runs taking a rep at the opposing teams, you know, or his own team. That's a more fair point. See, where are the snaps actually happening? But yeah, big game, Andrew Luck against Jacksonville. Jacksonville season looks lost. It's going to be Tennessee and Houston fighting for that division. Some things are shaking out in terms of the divisional races. I mean, Washington won another game.

The Eagles lost. Upset Philadelphia. So running backs, Nick Chubb was the big story. 20 for 176, longest touchdown in Brown's history, a 92-yard run. He's averaged 102 rushing yards per game. That's deceptive. A little bit. That's a deceptive number because he ran for 176 in this game. But since Carlos Hyde has been gone 80, 65, 85, and then the monster game. So, I mean, Nick Chub has been.

He's been fantastic. Can you start him and Duke Johnson on a weekly basis? Not on a weekly basis. I think you can start Chubb on a weekly basis, and Duke Johnson, to me, it needs a certain type of game. Like this one where we were saying Duke was a great play against Atlanta. I will say this, though. I mean, we said he's a great play against Atlanta. Game script didn't go the way we thought. That's true, but the reason he was a great...

play is because Atlanta always gives up past catching running back fantasy points and that's Duke Johnson's wheel. Yeah, and we'll see. I mean, with the changeover, we had also talked about the possibility that that Kitchens, the new offensive coordinator could change things up to me be more friendly for Duke. Duke was not heavily used in this game. He just ended up with a touchdown. Yeah. Christian McCaffrey, the Monster Week. Hey, who's this guy? Oh.

David Johnson. Oh, David. It was nice to see. 98 rushing yards, 85 receiving yards, 7 catches two touchdowns. David Johnson. He did it. He did it in a game where the implied point total for Arizona was very low and he still put up a monster fantasy. He's going to do it again next week. Oakland. He gets the ratings. Yeah, it's great to see.

We're going to talk about him again shortly. Ezekiel Elliott. What was really, you know, we're going to talk about him again. We're going to talk about David Johnson again. We do this thing called Rising Stars on the show. I was unaware that he was rising star. And we do it later on. And he's going to be my Rising Star, Jason. Spoiler. That's what I was getting at. Aaron Jones, broken out. Finally whittled down every bar in that cell. Broke out. The law can't find him.

No one can find him. 15 for 145. Two touchdowns. Out touched him all Williams, 18 to 3. And wouldn't you know, had wonderful success. And the team had wonderful success. Aaron Jones. Hello. McCarthy. It was crazy. Watching that game, it was inner turmoil for me because he was high in my rankings, but I was playing against him. And every single time he touched the ball, it looked like it was just.

Run for a first down. And every time it was, it looked like he was about to break off a touchdown. He's really good. And then they put Jamal Charles in the game and you go, or Jamal Williams. And they, you go, well, that dude's so slow. That's not Aaron Jones. No. So, I mean, yeah, the breakout has happened. I think he, you know, rest of season, he's going to be a great start. Could be a league winner type of player. Ezekiela at 19 for 151 and 1. The big story was Zika is he's already at his season high in catches.

He's on the field all the time. Great game for Zeke against the Philadelphia run defense that was in the top five of the league. They need to keep feeding him. They need to give him the ball more and more and more like, you know, to the tune of Todd Gurley-S numbers every week. But they need to be creative as well. I mean, and then the targets is a huge part of that. You can't do what they did.

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Those are really bad yard per carry numbers. Those are really bad. But when you get a multi-touchdown over 100 all-purpose yards, it's a great start. You definitely disappointed with the efficiency in the run game against the Colts. But you can't be too sad with the fact. The point was he's going to get full workload. And he is the clear cut back. Carlos Hyde is requesting a trade back to the Browns, I think. Only three touches. Melvin Gordon.

doing Melvin Gordon things. The nice thing about Melvin Gordon is no matter how much success he's had during any part of the game, he's one playaway at this point in time. LaShawn McCoy, what do you think about LaShawn McCoy's big performance? 26 for 113 and 2. Didn't even catch the ball, which has been the way he's been saving his production for fantasy owners. He only had one target. If you watch the game, it was this was old school Shady McCoy.

fun. It was invigorating to watch because when Shady's running free, when he's the slippery fish, he is an extremely entertaining player to watch. It came on the back of, I was being jocular about it, but Matt Barclay was actually a competent quarterback. I mean, that's the difference for LaShawn McCoy. He's got the buy week. Josh Allen is reported to be back. If Josh Allen can be competent at all.

then yes, Shady McCoy is getting the type of volume to be a running back too. But if Josh Allen comes back and looks real bad, then you're in trouble again with McCoy. So it's, I don't think you can project confidently one way or the other right now, where he's going to go. There were two pretty significant games this week that we need to talk about. The one, one is Mark Ingram's game.