Week 13 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Kareem Hunt Reaction

If Sammy Walken stays off the field and Cream Hunt is out, obviously. And the primary beneficiary, besides, of course, Spencer Ware, for Cream Hunt being off the team was Travis Kelsey this week. Yeah. But next week he gets the, who cares? Who cares? You don't look at matchups when you're, you know, the best tight-in in the league. Correct. And once again, we had one of those very special weeks where, what, Austin Hooper was the third tight-in. Furks, sir.

was the fourth. Oh, yeah. Demetrius Harris, who by the way, he could see a little bit of an uptick as well. Yeah, I mean. Also, Demetrius Harris. Toy Lolo was in the top 10. Demetrius Harris, you got a burner spot. It means a tight end, so it's not super valuable. But in Dynasty League, Demetrius Harris is on his contract year. Just a little. Jared Cook, seven for 101 on eight targets. I mentioned a Mike before the Oakland game that I thought there was opportunity to find value in Oakland.

whether it was Aitman, whether it was Jordy, whether it was Jared Cook. Like somebody has to catch the ball. Derek Carr had a very good week statistically. And Jared Cook is the tight in five on the season. Eric Ebron, 10 for 81. He had 16 targets. No scores for once. Because the team did not score. They did not score at all. The team put up a goose egg. But this is what you're going to see. And Eric Ebron was 10 for 81. He's a top three guy moving forward.

No doubt about it. No Jack Doyle. Any other thoughts on tight ends you guys want to jump into? Never. Rising Stars of the Week. Rising Stars for this week? I'll kick it off because we already. We already started talking about him. Dante Pettis to continue the conversation, he's my rising star in a similar fashion to how Juju was my rising star.

It's what you see. It's not just the box score. I realize that the box score is great, right? 77 yards and a touchdown last week comes in this week.

Over 100, two touchdowns looks great. But the reason he's my rising star is because you're seeing on the NFL field, what you love from college. Remember, he was starting to get on track before a bad injury earlier this season, and that took him out and then, you know, Goodwin was, you know, back in. Now that he's given the opportunity, and this is with the third string quarterback, look, am I saying that Dante Pettis is someone you have to start next week if Goodwin is out?

You don't have to. I think he could end up being a very good start. I probably would be willing, depending on your roster. The schedule coming up isn't that great. But long term, I mean, he is, I believe he's going to take over the Goodwin role. Goodwin has never, ever been a guy able to stay healthy. In college pros, Goodwin is a guy that to me will take over the, I'm the deep threat. That's really where he thrives. I think Petis coming next year.

will be the number one wide receiver for this team. He looks special to me. And so he's my rising star. I believe long-term, he's a guy you want. I mean, in Dynasty leagues, you know, I would be. He profiles as, say, you know, electric, multifaceted, route running, high speed. Like, he's 6'1. You know, Marky's good one's 5'10. Like, there's a big difference between those two guys. And if you haven't heard of the correlation between college,

punt and kick returners who have success. The guys that dominate in those special team roles in college translating to successful fantasy players, that's actually one of those big markers of if they're able to do that in open space, whatever trait that is tends to translate well to the NFL. Christian Kirk. Yeah, and he was a dominant. I mean, he broke records in college for that. Well, hopefully he can stay healthy too.

having been injured already this year. Truth. Justin Jackson's my rising star running back for the Los Angeles Chargers. It's a few San Diego's showing up on the broadcast last night. I don't blame him. But Justin Jackson, look, he gets Cincinnati next week, and if Melvin Gordon does miss, it's a great opportunity for Justin Jackson, Austin Echler tried to put the Batman suit on last night. It didn't fit. It was too big. It was too big. It was flopping around.

He needs to strap on the robin suit, the tight robin underpants. That's where he belongs. Look, one of the highest average yards per touch, Austin Eccler. He only has that because the touches don't come on every down trying to run between the tackles. Justin Jackson gave the Chargers something special last night. Mike has brought his name up repeatedly over the course of the preseason and into the season. I honestly thought Justin Jackson before the season would take.

Echler's job. And going through the game last night, it was surprising they didn't let Justin Jackson run more. Even after he was having success, they still went back to Echler. It will be interesting to see if that game plan shifts next week of them saying, okay, we have the proof of concept, Justin, you're good. Even he got called out by Philip Rivers.

Yeah, I don't know if you guys saw this. I did not. During the postgame interview, Philip Rivers was elated, and he talked about the breakout party for 32. So let's see if they use them next week. It might have something to do with hot hand. It might have to do with Echle gets off to a slow start. They're going to quickly move into Jackson. Right. And you already said it, Andy, but I'll just repeat it. Cincinnati next week. Yes. Goodness gracious, Justin Jackson is going to be a great start. And in Kansas City the next week, if for some reason they hold Gordon out because they're...

in the playoffs or they're listening to the show. Either way. Don't worry. We 15. He'll be back just in time. My rising star could be put on ice here by Mike Tomlin and his contusion confusion. Not sure what's going on here with James Connor. But I wanted to bring up the name of Jalen Samuels because in Yahoo leaks, Jalen Samuels currently retains his tight end eligibility.

Which is ridiculous. Cheater. Which means you could have the starting running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers next week in your tight end spot, which is certifiably unfair. We'll see if Yahoo jumps on this quickly or not. I don't know if they will, but regardless of that, if James Connor is going to miss, Jalen Samuels projects to be the.

the primary ball carrier, the primary guy of what could still be a little bit of a time show, but the main guy, as they've shown, Pittsburgh picks their guy and they go with him, and he would take on Oakland. So he will become a fantastic spot start if you're struggling with injuries heading into the playoffs. All right, the rising stars this week brought to you by fantasychamps.com. If you need a league trophy with custom engraving.

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It was Breeze and Rogers and Ryan in luck, golf and cousins. Anyone you thought you could count on them stunk. I like it. Yeah. You brought that home. Let's see how Carson Wentz does tonight. Yeah, well. It'll be fine because you felt like you couldn't count on Carson Wentz this week. That's true. That's true. Um, Jason was on tilt, having started Mount Ryan. I.

And it didn't matter. I tweeted out. My quarterback scored 44 years, scored 10. I was really struggling with the Carson Wins versus Matt Ryan matchup. And after 2,500 votes on this poll from you, it was still tied 50-50. Nobody could decide between those two terrible starts. I went with Matt Ryan and I wanted to just take a shovel to my television.

Just whack it while Matt Ryan was the worst quarterback that's ever played. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He fumbled for six at the end of the game and you didn't believe me and then said, I want to die. So that illuminates that situation. Disappointing game from Kirk Cousins on the road, some errand throws. Really shaky. Jared Goff has looked shaky for two weeks in a row from an accuracy perspective. 17 for 33 against Detroit.

That's worrisome. Yeah, he misses Cooper Cup. I mean, you saw, I remember one play where it was, you know, red zone target to Josh Reynolds, and it just was out of sync, and I'm positive. It would have been a touchdown of Cooper Cup was the one in that role. He was running that same route, but it was just a foot too far on the ball. And, yeah, it's hurting, it's hurting golf. Case Keenum, we thought he'd be a good streamer. He was terrible. Right now,

Just so you're aware, it's more efficient to run the ball with Philip Lindsay, who's averaging 7.2 per touch, than it is to throw with Case Keenum, who is averaging 6.8 yards per attempt. Wow. So it is better to hand off than to throw with Case Keenum. But they are winning because they are playing defense again. They have a nice schedule, and Philip Lindsay is running like his tails on fire. The most surprising one to me, because some of these we could see come in like Matt Ryan, but Andrew Luck.

Andrew Luck has just been. Yeah, I really thought he'd be okay. It hasn't mattered the matchup, good, bad, or otherwise. He's been throwing three touchdowns, and it mattered. I mean, watching that game, he was struggling. He was without his superstar center, and then Bome, who came in replacement. He actually eventually left the game. So I think you had some offensive line problems. I thought you were going to say his superstar tight end, Moe Alley Cox. Oh, Gigantor was also out. What a 10 feet tall if he was afoot.

Running backs, look, as a continuation from the luck discussion, Marlon Mack struggled. Everybody struggled for Indianapolis who didn't score. Mac was eight for 27. Very poor game. Naeem Hines ended up getting more snaps. This is, you know, Mac is not matchup proof. Mac is not game script proof. He can take advantage of a really good matchup, but next week against Houston in Houston, it doesn't sound like one.

No, and even the week after Dallas does not, Dallas's defense has been very good as well. So it might be time to look elsewhere for the next two weeks. Kevin Coleman lost on the way to the stadium, six for eight. Man, that's a good game. The entire Atlanta Falcons offense, really, I mean, when a game where Julio Jones, top three wide receiver in the NFL does essentially nothing. If you were Breeze.

and, like, Breeze Michael Thomas or Matt Ryan, Julio Jones this week. My goodness. And you're like, looking your chops. You could be like out of the playoff. Hopefully you two played each other. Yeah. You've got your stacks against each other. Let me ask you this real quick. Kevin Coleman, who's just been terrible. He's been unreliable at best. He gets to play Green Bay. And David Johnson looked good. Chase Edmonds looked good. Are you?

going to be willing to play him. He's always in the... Or are you just in the... I'm going to... In the Byrne Ward... I mean, you're kind of saying, uh, Jalen Richard or Kevin Coleman. Ugh. Yeah, in a situation like that, I'm probably still going to stick with Coleman. I don't think their... I don't think their offense is going to sputter as much as it did this week. And if we remember, the last time we saw the Falcons as bad as they were this last week was week one to kick off the NFL.

the first game of the season against the Eagles where they just looked completely out of sync. And then if you were to overreact to that game too much, you missed out on the next three games of absolute fire from the Falcon's offense. Look, I'm not happy with Coleman, and there's definitely situations where I'll bench him next week. They're collapsing right now. Yeah. You think they fire Sarkesian? I think it's time to move on. I don't think so. I don't think they will. Emmanuel Sanders, bad game from him. Kenny G.

Uninspiring, three for 50. We know about the Treyquan Smith Thursday gooseing. There were some painful gooses. And then Demarius Thomas, Kiki QT didn't play. Demarius Thomas, just three for 32. I think we warned you not to chase the touchdowns, but I think we all expected a little bit more against Cleveland. A little more, yeah. You know, Brandon Cooks was all right. Josh Reynolds stunk.

DJ Moore had eight targets. Real disappointing. Yeah, that one was 44. You know, we had talked about Curtis Samuel, and Curtis Samuel seemed to be the more primary receiver for Cam Newton in that game. That's John Brown. As David Moore. They're flying in formation. They are.