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

13 for 104, 3 for 58 in the passing game with a touchdown. The other one is Kerry on Johnson's game. 14 for 51 and a touchdown. Surprise me. And I think what fantasy owners want to know, dare I say deserve to know, is whether or not it's going to last for these two players. The concern with Ingram has been opportunity, especially on the goal line. The concern with Kerryon Johnson was the return of Theo.

Riddick and the disintegration of his passing game work, but you had really big fantasy days, probably on a lot of benches for Ingram and Johnson. Yeah, I'm very confident in both players. Mark Ingram, he didn't get some crazy new opportunity. It's exactly what he's getting. I mean, 12 carries, 13 carries, 9 carries 13 this week. But he...

He's on a great offense. You get the opportunities to score touchdowns, which he had through the air, three receptions for 58. I'm very confident in Mark Ingram. Is he going to be great every single week? No, there's very few players that just every single week have a great output. He's not Alvin Camara, Todd Gurley, Melvin Gordon. But he's a very good running back who gets enough opportunity on a great offense. And as far as Carryon's concerned, the thing that...

really, really makes me happy is Theo is back six receptions. That was the worry, right? Going in with carry on. It wasn't just, I mean, the worry a little bit was matchup on the road, not a great game. But with Theo back, will he continue to be used in the passing game? And he was. Maybe that's because of the absence of Golden Tate, where you've just got, you know, a few more targets to go around to those running backs.

Ingram and Camara finished the week exactly tied as the ninth ranked fantasy running back this week. Carry on Johnson finished as the 12th ranked running back. One more carry for Ingram. That game got out of hand pretty quick. They didn't even play starters in part of the fourth quarter. Okay, let's move on to some wideouts. Tyreek Hill, two touchdowns. Nice to see. I had a...

I had a contact on the chief sideline from last week saying that he played last week at about 80% at best coming up. You know how he was banged up and he had the groin injury and Andy Reid was concerned about it? He said he saw Hill warming up. He looks kind of restricted. He came out, didn't look restricted in this game, had a big game against Patrick Peterson. I say that both of his touch ends came in the seam. But he avoided.

You know, no Sammy Watkins out there still had a monster game. They have the Rams next week. Oh, that's going to be such a good game. Yeah, well, it will be. Man, if the Rams had not held on, right, lost the second straight game and then have to face the Chiefs, that would have been interesting. The slow motion exuberant celebration from head coach Sean McVeigh. I did not. Oh, and I mean, the lip readers are going to have themselves a time with that.

After the game? Yeah, it's, look, the man was very excited. A couple words. Said some things that we don't say on this show, but that man was fired up. Fired up. Like, woohoo. We did it, boys. Yes, very close. Good job team. Alan Robinson 6 for 133 and 2, putting any doubters to rest. For now, I mean, he had to be on most people's bench, right?

Yeah, just because coming off the injury. I don't know, buy weeks and stuff. I think if you had him, you probably. Hopefully you played him. Minnesota, Xavier Rhodes, how confident. He destroyed Darius Slay. Yeah? But Slay was, Slay was banged up all week. It'll be interesting. He's mentally banged up now. It'll be interesting to see what happens with Alan Robinson and, you're right, with Rhodes and what Trubisky can do against Minnesota.

Anthony Miller had a great game in that one, too. Anthony Miller was... He was almost my rising star just because he did it with Alan Robinson on the field. Well, because you know who didn't do it. Taylor Gabriel. Right. Squad-oosh. See, that makes sense, though. Because rookie wide receivers establishing themselves, there's some metrics out there. Nobody gets more separation at the point of break than, you know, Anthony Miller is up there with the Antonio Browns of the world. Impressive.

2.2 something yards of separation on his route. So it was a matter of time with Anthony Miller. Taylor Gabriel's capped Anthony Miller's ascending. Yeah. So 5 for 122. Great game for him. He's going to be a waiver-wire target, no doubt about it. Michael Thomas, two more touchdowns. Ho-hum. Yeah, Ho-hum. Doing Michael Thomas things. Maybe people were able to trade for Michael Thomas in the brief Des Bryant is their window. Oh, I hope so. I hope so.

Corey Davis likes playing the New England Patriots. What? For 125 and one on 10 targets. What? Indianapolis, Houston, New York coming up. Corey Davis, is this, he gives you kind of the mirage in the desert every once in a while. Marcus and Marriota, though, is actually looking better the last couple weeks. Can you buy in or is this a trap? It's a trap. Well, if you look, I don't know. It's not a trap in the sense that there are.

plenty of poopers we're going to talk about. And you're going to have to make a decision. Would you drop Treyquan Smith to sign Corey Davis? Yeah. Yeah, you do that. So I think there will be decisions to be made. Maybe we'll bring Corey Davis name up again when we talk about some of the poopers and what you do with your roster. Sure. Devanti Adams, Julio Jones, Brandon Cooks. You're always starting them. You're great. You mean Julio Touchdown Jones? That is what they call him.

That's what they call them these days. He's going to have a touchdown every game rest of the season. It's like, the ice is finally broken. It makes sense. He gets too many targets. This was just an enigma. This is like the coin toss thing for Kansas City. Did that continue? No, they lost. They lost? Yeah. Yeah, Kansas City had won nine consecutive coin tosses. Look, eventually you're going to lose. Yeah. And when you don't cover Julio, eventually you're going to lose. Dante Moncrief, three for 98 and one.

When Dante Roncrief has a game, it is always on the back of a 70-80-yard reception. So you got it this week. What about, look, we've got a breakout wide receiver with a brand new quarterback, Zay Jones. Well, Matt Barkley. Yeah. The connection. Like I said, Josh Allen's going to be back. I would consider signing Zay Jones to cut him. Right. Just to have fun.

Just as a way of saying thank you for scoring on the waiver wire. An honorary pickup. Yeah, he deserves to. He's been on the waiver wire. He deserves to be signed and cut. Eric Ebron, three for 69 and two touchdowns on three targets. Also had a rushing touchdown. Sure. Eric Ebron is on pace to tie the single season touchdown record for the tight end. He deserves to be owned. He deserves to be started. Zach Ertz against Dallas, 14 for 14 and 2 on 16 targets. He's unbelievable.

He has a wide receiver and a tight end combined. Yep. In one position. He has four of the top 10 single game tight end reception numbers in history. One of which was... That's ridiculous. Yeah. Already? Already in a young career, Zackert is...

The safest tight end there is. I mean, I feel like Kelsey has a higher ceiling for multi-touchdown games. I would agree with that. Despite the fact that he did not score touchdown at Zekertz had a multi-touchdown game this week. But the safer option is Ertz. Austin Hooper did it again. 11 targets, 10 catches. That's a trial. Every once in a while, Austin Hooper. You're not going to fool me a fourth time, Austin Hooper. No? No. What if you started one of the poopers?

Well, yes, this week, but I'm saying I'm not going to go. Okay, well, Austin Hooper, he's right back at it after his... Jack Doyle, you're signing and keeping Jack Doyle above Austin Hooper. I would, yes. Okay. Just checking. All right, it is Rising Star Time. Rising Stars of the Whig. Jason? Yeah. Why don't you go first? Well, I'm doing a little hanging. Whoa.

I'm hanging with Mr. Cooper. Mari Cooper is my rising star. Look, last week I talked about how, you know, my mind wanted one thing, but my body was telling me something else with Mari Cooper. You were so hesitant. You were so hesitant to start. Like, you couldn't even get the words out. My body. My body. Oh. But my body. It's funny. I thought that was just the but my body part.

And I just had to let the whole thing play. But my body is telling me yes with Amari Cooper. You've got five receptions and six receptions, enough volume, enough work with Zeke getting going in the passing game. We were talking about that. The offense looks like it's less inept, which is great. But he is the clear-cut primary wide receiver. And he's looked good in that system. He's looked good for DAC. And if you look at their upcoming schedule, games against Atlanta.

New Orleans, Indianapolis, Tampa Bay. I mean, those are just, they're going to need to throw the ball. He looks like the primary guy. So I am rising on Amari Cooper without a doubt. Mike, I'm terrified of yours. I am as well. Look, I get it. And I think I oppose, but go on. Well, you can oppose, but this is, I'm bringing him up because you got to add him. I don't know if we can start him yet, but Rashad Penny, I look, I get it.

But he was 12 for 108 with a touchdown. And then he had the full Peach Cobbler support after the game saying that's the player that we drafted. He's going to be in a platoon no matter what. This will never be the Rashad Penny show. But what is the actual status of Chris Carson? How banged up is he? Chris Carson is a Seattle running back, meaning you will never know. And he'll be a game time decision and get 30 carries.

or he'll be a game time decision and get nothing. I mean, my worry, and obviously I'm a huge Rashad Penny truth or from the draft. I mean, he was my favorite running back, not named Sequin. You know, him and Carrion were like my two guys. I think the talent is there. I just can't trust Pete Carroll. And Pete Carroll's support means nothing because he supports all of his players. Tushay. His players are the best.

But he, I mean, he got just as much work as Mike Davis, not in the passing game, but on the ground, had a lot of success. He looked great. Yeah, and he did. He looked fantastic. I'm just, I've got him in this section because I think that he is a primary pickup at the running back position. If he is available on your waivers, we will have to see how the news trends to see if you can play him or not.

I'm going to put David Johnson in here. David Johnson with the monster game. Look, for weeks, at least I've been saying, I think these guys have echoed the fact that if you could have acquired him, I mean, last week we talked about it on the show, Jordan Howard, right? Like, I mean, you could get David Johnson without paying the David Johnson price for the past few weeks. He is...

a dual threat running back. And I know that offense is inept, but the Cardinals actually had a pretty good showing. They held the chiefs to their lowest point total of the season. They were competitive in this game for quite some time, and that's not to say they're going to be a winning team. But if their defense can contain people, David Johnson is going to get as much opportunity as he got this week. This is much more of a template to the rest of the season with Byron Lefwich at Offensive Coordinator, the passing targets for David Johnson.

David Johnson could end up winning people leagues in the end when they didn't expect it after the bad start to the season. This is a big difference. We're seeing the difference in an offensive coordinator in Cleveland and the way it affects that offense. We're seeing it in Arizona and the way it affects David Johnson directly. If you call different plays with very talented players, you get more opportunity, and that's what we're seeing with David Johnson. So he is a rising star.

For me. That makes sense. Coming off the buy, nine targets, it's what we used to see with an offensive coordinator from what system we used to see. And his upcoming playoff schedule is great. Detroit, Atlanta, and then the Rams where in the passing game, he should still have a good game. It's amazing and maddening how much coaching affects fantasy football players. I mean, from the...

absolute demise of Todd Gurley in his second year with Jeff Fisher, David Johnson. If the Arizona Cardinals had not fired Mike McCoy, David Johnson, in my opinion, you just chalk it up. He would be a massive bust. A right off. Yeah. No doubt. You see Turbisky. His assent. Exactly. In those offense. By the way, rising stars brought to you by Fantasychamps.com. That is a domain you want to just remember.